Karina Longworth

MORNING GLORY

Karina Longworth
MORNING GLORY In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in the kind of cocktail dress a screen heroine wears when a slow-building love plot is coming to a head; it is the perfect costume for, say, leaving one suitor to run across Manhattan to another. Which McAdams'......

MORNING GLORY

Karina Longworth
MORNING GLORY In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in the kind of cocktail dress a screen heroine wears when a slow-building love plot is coming to a head; it is the perfect costume for, say, leaving one suitor to run across Manhattan to another. Which McAdams'......
Evil Ballerina Natalie Portman wants you to Rush for AFI Tickets

How To See Movies For Free: A Guide to AFI Fest Ticketing

Karina Longworth
This week's big local film story is the launch of AFI Fest 2010, which begins tonight with a gala screening of the naked Anne Hathaway movie Love and Other Drugs, and will screen over 60 features over the next seven days, including the local premieres of the latest provocation from......
The many Natalie Portmans of AFI's closing night film

AFI Fest 2010: Something New, Something Old

Karina Longworth
In 2009, in an attempt to redefine its annual AFI Film Festival aesthetically, geographically and economically, as a maverick event serving both mainstream and art-film audiences, the American Film Institute made three headline-grabbing changes: Artistic director Rose Kuo hired the notably individualist film critic Robert Koehler as programming director; the......
Werner Herzog in 3-D

Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Karina Longworth
Werner Herzog may have made his latest documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, in 3-D, but the chameleonic German auteur is hardly hopping on the bandwagon of Hollywood's techno-gimmick du jour. "I'm not a full advocate of 3-D filmmaking," Herzog told the Weekly, in a hotel suite the afternoon following Cave's......

DUE DATE

Karina Longworth
DUE DATE In Due Date, a skinny, scowly and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis boarding a flight. Downey Jr. plays Peter, a Bluetoothed architect with a very pregnant wife waiting at home for him; Galifianakis' Ethan is a would-be movie star headed to......
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"My Favorite Thing in the World"

Karina Longworth
The most powerful man in American film comedy today, Judd Apatow was the key force behind a cultural cross-fade that has seen the high-concept, highly physical Hollywood comedies of the '80s and '90s largely replaced by low-key character studies of losers and stoners and their sociosexual foibles. It's a transition......

MONSTERS

Karina Longworth
GO  MONSTERS A road-trip romance thick with sci-fi circumstance, Monsters imagines a bizarro-world present, in which a NASA probe has crashed, leaving part of Mexico "infected" with hostile, rapidly breeding alien life. The monsters — something like massive octopi that can walk on their tentacles, with translucent bellies that glow......

THE TWO ESCOBARS

Karina Longworth
THE TWO ESCOBARS In a 1994 World Cup game against the U.S., Colombian soccer superstar Andre Escobar scored a decisive goal — against his own team. Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's documentary The Two Escobars begins with that crushing landmark sports moment, and then backs up to fill in the details......

MONSTERS

Karina Longworth
GO  MONSTERS A road-trip romance thick with sci-fi circumstance, Monsters imagines a bizarro-world present, in which a NASA probe has crashed, leaving part of Mexico "infected" with hostile, rapidly breeding alien life. The monsters — something like massive octopi that can walk on their tentacles, with translucent bellies that glow......