Email Author Karina Longworth

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 5, 2010

  "Sundance's Rebel Yell"

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2011 Stories by Karina Longworth

• FEATURED STORY

  Oscars 2011: The Most Embarrassing Academy Awards Everr

  published Feb 27, 2011

  "It's the young and hip Oscars!" So chirped Anne Hathaway when returning to the mic after 50 year-old winner Melissa Leo--looking much more legitimately glamorous than in those for your considerat... More >>

• Now & Later

  published February 24, 2011

  NOW & LATER Now & Later is a hybrid of three kinds of porn: soft-core (sex wedded to narrative, threaded with a... More >>

• Oscar Mild

  published February 24, 2011

  Paramount, distributor of David O. Russell's The Fighter, celebrated the helmer's Best Director Oscar nomination by... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published February 17, 2011

  Thursday Cinefamily's "Vive L'Amour" series continues with Leos Carax's rarely screened debut,... More >>

• Cold Weather: Watching the Detectives

  published February 10, 2011

  An overgrown kid with an inimitable walk that defines "bumbling" — body tilted forward 45 degrees, arms hanging straight... More >>

• State of the Arthouse Bonus Features

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Even with 4000+ words, I didn't have nearly enough room in this week's State of the Arthouse cover story to offer a truly exhaustive portrait of Los Angeles' multi-faceted arthouse and repertory mov... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published February 3, 2011

  Thursday Cinefamily kicks off its "Vive L'Amour" series of French love films with a screening of Jacques Demy's... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  State of the Art House

  published February 3, 2011

  There's no "For Rent" sign on the Music Hall at 9036 Wilshire Blvd., a stone's throw from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &... More >>

• Sundance Film Festival: Duh, Hot Girls Make Difficult Films More Marketable

  published January 27, 2011

  In Mike Cahill’s Another Earth — a multiple prizewinner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and one of two... More >>

• Sundance's Prodigal Children Return

  published January 20, 2011

  The Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 20-30, self-identifies as a “discovery festival,” meaning that it embraces its own... More >>

• No Strings Attached Review

  published January 20, 2011

  Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave), would seem an... More >>

• Alex Cox Back in Possession of Repo

  published January 20, 2011

  A not-quite sequel to the 1984 L.A. punk classic Repo Man, Alex Cox's Repo Chick is both extreme formal... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published January 13, 2011

  ThursdayMemphis-based filmmaker-actor Kentucker Audley (Team Picture) brings two new micro-budgeted, art-meets-life regional... More >>

• Dogtooth: A Pussy Is a Big Light

  published January 6, 2011

  A 2009 Cannes winner just now having its L.A. premiere (it opened in New York last summer), Dogtooth is hyperrealist... More >>

• Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken

  published January 6, 2011

  In Steven Soderbergh's 1999 film The Limey, Peter Fonda's Terry Valentine dreamily describes the 1960s as "a place... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Tarantino, Tim Burton & the Top 10 LA Weekly Film Stories of 2010

  published Jan 05, 2011

  Behold: possibly the internet's only 2010 Year in Film wrap up with no mention of The Social Network in sight. Our top ten most viewed Film stories of the year cover some perennial hot-on-the-interw... More >>