Karina Longworth

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Diane Keaton as Nikki Finke

Karina Longworth
HitFix.com is reporting that Diane Keaton has been cast in the titular role in Tilda, an HBO comedy pilot reportedly based on much-feared Deadline Hollywood columnist-turned-blogger/ Nikki Finke. Very few details about the show are currently available--HBO hasn't even formally announced the project--but we know Cynthia Mort (The Brave One)......
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Faux Hookers, Bartending Kids at Banksy Premiere

Karina Longworth
Exit Through the Gift Shop, the documentary starring (and apparently detourned by) street artist Banksy, had its LA premiere last night at the grand old Los Angeles Theater in Downtown LA. In our cover story this week, Banksy himself claimed that "the plan for the American premiere is to surprise......
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Streamy Awards: Flipping Off Hollywood, or Embracing It?

Karina Longworth
I didn't go to the Streamy Awards, but I did follow it on Twitter (I am already living in a hyper-connected future that doesn't require actually leaving my house.) Judging only by how the event was reported in 140 character bites, it seems like there were two ways to look......
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Fracking Doc GASLAND Hush-Hush Opens in LA

Karina Longworth
Gasland, Josh Fox's riveting personal documentary in which the filmmaker travels the country tracking the human cost of "fracking," a controversial method of natural gas drilling (think inexplicable illnesses, regular-joe-raping corporate cover-ups, and tap water with so much gas in it that it becomes flammable, as in the clip below),......
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Malcolm McLaren is Dead

Karina Longworth
Malcolm McLaren, the art/punk swindler/genius who managed the Sex Pistols, died this morning in Switzerland. He had cancer, and was 64. Throughout a spotty but rather fascinating forty year career in pop culture, McLaren had hands in fashion, all forms of music, and film. He famously lost his virginity to......
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LA Film Fest Moves to LA Live

Karina Longworth
This morning the Los Angeles Film Festival announced that they're moving the show downtown. LAFF had been based in Westwood for the past four festivals, but the event's growing size and the concurrent reduction in potential screening venues in the area (the seats were torn out of the Festival theater......
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David Lynch Double Feature

Karina Longworth
Tonight the New Beverly kicks off a three-day run of a David Lynch double feature: the underrated/underseen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, followed by the wide critical consensus choice for the best film of last decade, Mulholland Drive. To mark the occasion, our music editor Gustavo Turner has compiled......
Banksy's murdered phone box

Banksy, The Movie

Karina Longworth
Tomorrow's LA Weekly cover story focuses on mysterious street artist Banksy, who is the star and quasi-director of the new documentary, Exit at the Gift Shop, which opens in LA on April 16. Below the jump, you'll find a short trailer for that film, as well as a five minute......
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The Sexiest Rainy Day Scene Ever

Karina Longworth
This morning's storm seems to have passed, but you can live through one of the greatest rainy day scenes in all of cinema tonight at UCLA. As part of their ongoing tribute to Humphrey Bogart, the UCLA Film & Television Archive is screening The Big Sleep tonight at 7:30. Before......
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Teenage Superhero-themed Burlesque

Karina Longworth
Kick-Ass is a movie, based on Mark Millar's comic book and coming out in theaters on April 16, about a couple of teenage nerds, and one delusional, psychotic revenge-seeking-cop-spawned 11 year old girl, who become superheroes via sheer force of will, media savvy, and the availability of hardcore weaponry on......