Karina Longworth

La Chienne (The Bitch), by Jean Renoir, screened at LACMA last month. For a month last summer, it looked like the venerable film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was going to disappear. Then, in late August, thanks to the grassroots efforts of activists like Save Film......

A totally made-up, mostly internet-fueled holiday like 4/20 can only mean one thing: Hitler's gonna be mad. But before you upload your "Hitler finds out Himmler got stoned and let all Jews go free" Downfall mashup, consider this: Constantin Films, the German production company behind the Oscar-nominated film about Hitler's......

This post is by Doug Cummings, author of the world cinema blog FilmJourney.org. Since 1996, the annual City of Lights, City of Angeles film festival has offered a week of North American and world premieres of new French films along with an array of public discussions and events. It's known......

International hipster supercouple Sofia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford, ex-wife of Spike Jonze, Oscar winner for Lost in Translation) and Thomas Mars (lead singer of Phoenix, ie that French band you sort of care about who are not Daft Punk or Air) are in the process of making both a......

Reed Cowan used to be a Mormon missionary, with, he says, "knowledge of Mormon strategy at the highest levels." Now he's an activist against the Mormon church, working to out what he sees as the Church's violation of civil rights against gays. When his documentary 8: The Morman Proposition premiered......

Kick-Ass, the Matthew Vaughn–directed adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s graphic novel, sets itself up as an unadulterated exposé of the teenage mind. Tired of being mugged by high school thugs in a Manhattan that's notably scummier than the real thing, our hero, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson, a......

"Avant-game," a co-programming venture of Los Angeles Filmforum and UCLA's Melnitz Movies and student gaming organization LUDUS, spotlights machinima at its highest brow. These seven experimental shorts engage in a dialogue with video games thematically and materially, some using gaming tropes as a filter, others treating images from Grand Theft......