Karina Longworth

The tagline for the recently concluded 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival was "Tomorrow Happens Here." It was slick marketing shorthand for the event's reputation as a test tube for new cinematic trends and a breeding ground for incestuous indie collaborations (most of the filmmakers now associated with mumblecore first......

Bob Byington sat with a journalist last August in an empty theater in Michigan, where the two feature films he's directed in three years for a combined total in the low six figures, RSO: Registered Sex Offender and Harmony and Me, were screening at the Traverse City Film Festival, organized......

Last night, Variety broke the news that Sony is launching a new, CGI 3D Popeye franchise. The 1920s-era comics will be adapted by Mike Jones, who was a journalist on the indie industry/film festival beat until he was sacked by Variety in a major editorial lay off a little over......

Every year, in addition to Hollywood and foreign industry films that have been widely seen/heard of, the Library of Congress adds a number of short and/or avant-garde works to the National Film Registry, their list of "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant works designated for permanent preservation. This weekend, Los Angeles......

There's an obvious stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and a still underage, barely dressed Dakota Fanning begging for street cred by playing dress-up — as, respectively, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, front girls of the oversexed '70s teen proto-punk sensation the......

Tonight's SXSW Film Awards began with a speech, apparently conceived at the last minute, by SXSW co-founder and Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black. With negative buzz building against the festival's overcrowded screenings (lines routinely circled blocks, and at some highly-anticipated screenings in small venues, reportedly only a small number of......