Karina Longworth

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Thurs., Sept. 22 A truly historic event tonight at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater: the "re-premiere" of the first three reels of The White Shadow, a silent film written and edited in 1924 by Alfred Hitchcock. The film, long assumed to be lost, was found in a collection of unidentified......
Brad Pitt in Moneyball

Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

"It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film about the push-and-pull......

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Thurs., Sept. 15 Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life ends its runs in Pasadena and Encino tonight. And two recently closed coming-of-age indies comprise the double bill at the New Beverly: The Myth of the American Sleepover at 7:30, followed by Richard Ayoade's Submarine. Sat., Sept. 17 The American Cinematheque continues its......

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Thurs., Sept. 15 Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life ends its runs in Pasadena and Encino tonight. And two recently closed coming-of-age indies comprise the double bill at the New Beverly: The Myth of the American Sleepover at 7:30, followed by Richard Ayoade's Submarine. Sat., Sept. 17 The American Cinematheque continues its......
The way we live now: Contagion

Contagion Review

Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh's ever-expanding pre-retirement slate, Contagion opens on Day 2 of a global viral epidemic. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Beth Emhoff, an American employee for an ominously unspecific multinational corporation, who returns from a business trip in Hong Kong to her wintry Midwestern home feeling like......