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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2012 Stories by Karina Longworth

• Cannes Film Festival: The Korean Woody Allen, and an Iranian Game-Changer

  published May 21, 2012

  After operating at maybe 75 percent of its potential for almost its first full week, on Sunday the Cannes Film Festival kicked into full auteurist gear, with the premieres of three formally audacious ... More >>

• Cannes Film Festival: Michael Haneke's Amour

  published May 20, 2012

  Eighty-something couple George (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anna (Emmanuelle Riva), former music teachers with one adult daughter (Isabelle Huppert), are comfortably settled into their senescence toge... More >>

• Cannes Film Festival: Lawless, Laurence Anyways, Beyond the Hills

  published May 19, 2012

  As a major festival like Cannes wears on, my notebook accumulates more scrawl than I can translate into full blog posts. So, behold! The first of likely several notebook dumps, with thoughts on John H... More >>

• Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Showr

  published May 18, 2012

  Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: A convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball... More >>

• Cannes Fetish Pornr Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, Sex Tourism in Paradise (Love)

  published May 17, 2012

  Hot French double-amputee on bare-knuckle boxer sex. Fleshy Austrian cougar cycles between multiple young, fit African gigolos. Loglines of highly-specific fetish porn, or of movies premiering Thurs... More >>

• Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and Bill Murray

  published May 16, 2012

  It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the K... More >>

• The Dictator Review

  published May 17, 2012

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb... More >>

• The Avengers Review

  published May 3, 2012

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful,... More >>

• Brit Marling in Sound of My Voice

  published April 26, 2012

  Twenty-something Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

• Here Review

  published April 26, 2012

  Will (Ben Foster) — a lone-wolf American cartographer on a contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in Armenia's... More >>

• Goodbye First Love Review

  published April 19, 2012

  Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love, begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola... More >>

• Bobcat Goldthwait Interview

  published April 19, 2012

  Bobcat Goldthwait is moving. As he settles into a booth at Jones for a late-afternoon salad to talk about his new movie, God Bless... More >>

• Guy Maddin's Keyhole Reviewed

  published April 12, 2012

  The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of... More >>

• Genesis Breyer P-orridge in New Documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

  published April 12, 2012

  "You fall in love with someone, and there's this moment where you just want to consume each other and not be individuals anymore. We had that... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published April 5, 2012

  Fri., April 6 Unsung classic or rightfully drowned turkey? Hudson Hawk, Michael Lehmann's... More >>

• Attenberg Review

  published April 5, 2012

  Athina Rachel Tsangari's disarming second feature, Attenberg — Greece's unsuccessful submission for the Foreign Language Oscar... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published March 29, 2012

  Thurs., March 29 As a screening tie-in to LACMA's "California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way" show,... More >>

• Whit Stillman Interview

  published March 29, 2012

  Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semi-autobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his... More >>

• 4:44 Last Day on Earth Review

  published March 22, 2012

  In writer-director Abel Ferrara's vision of the apocalypse, meter maids ticket cars and Chinese joints deliver right up until the end. The... More >>

• Jon Jost Series at L.A. Filmforum & Cinefamily

  published March 15, 2012

  Three local venues are partnering this weekend to screen films by Jon Jost, a self-taught artist whose work ranges from filmed features to... More >>

• The Kid With a Bike Review

  published March 15, 2012

  The Kid With a Bike, the new film from Belgian art-house legends Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, begins with Cyril, a scrappy... More >>

• Will Ferrell Plays a Mexican Cowboy in Casa de Mi Padre

  published March 15, 2012

  Casa de Mi Padre is a Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell as a simple-minded, asexual Mexican cowboy who welcomes the return... More >>

• Being Flynn Review

  published March 1, 2012

  Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck... More >>

• Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film Review

  published March 1, 2012

  In 2010, the internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home. A neorealist who has been a vocal opponent of... More >>

• Why The Artist Will Win Best Picture at the Oscars

  published Feb 20, 2012

  To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is more than just a reflection of the mogul's resurgent power of per... More >>