Karina Longworth

Brit Marling in Sound of My Voice

Brit Marling in Sound of My Voice

Twenty-something Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the basement of a San Fernando Valley split-level in the middle of the night to follow the teachings of the enigmatic Maggie (Brit Marling). A supposedly sickly yet ethereally......
The new Bobcat Goldthwait; Credit: PHOTO BY STEPHANIE DIANI

Bobcat Goldthwait Interview

Bobcat Goldthwait is moving. As he settles into a booth at Jones for a late-afternoon salad to talk about his new movie, God Bless America, his biggest concern is that he and his wife are scheduled to vacate their Studio City house in the morning, and they're still packing. He's......
Goodbye First Love

Goodbye First Love Review

Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love, begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola Créton), a highly emotional high school girl in love, is 15 and tracks her through her mid-20s, as she's establishing a career. We first follow Camille through her all-consuming romance with Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), a......
Keyhole

Guy Maddin's Keyhole Reviewed

The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of The Odyssey. Jason Patric plays Ulysses Pick, leader of a two-bit gang who, carrying a nearly drowned girl on his back, returns home after a long absence. With his criminal accomplices confined......
Attenberg

Attenberg Review

Athina Rachel Tsangari's disarming second feature, Attenberg — Greece's unsuccessful submission for the Foreign Language Oscar nomination one year after Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth surprisingly made the final five — is a cracked coming-of-age tale set in a fading Greek seaside town. Ariane Labed (who won the Best Actress prize at......

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Fri., April 6 Unsung classic or rightfully drowned turkey? Hudson Hawk, Michael Lehmann's quasi-musical caper comedy co-conceived by and starring Bruce Willis at the peak of his Die Hard–spawned action-hero fame, bombed at the box office, won the Razzie for Worst Picture and was nearly universally voted by critics as......
Whit Stillman; Credit: PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON

Whit Stillman Interview

Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semi-autobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his 1990 Oscar-nominated debut Metropolitan), privileged Americans abroad (Barcelona, 1994) and resilient yuppies in decadent early-'80s Manhattan (The Last Days of Disco, 1998). But for more than a decade, Stillman......

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Thurs., March 29 As a screening tie-in to LACMA's "California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way" show, animation historian Jerry Beck — curator of the monthly cartoon programs at Cinefamily — has put together Madcap Modernism, a compilation of toons from United Productions of America and other outfits whose......
The end of the world

4:44 Last Day on Earth Review

In writer-director Abel Ferrara's vision of the apocalypse, meter maids ticket cars and Chinese joints deliver right up until the end. The media's "live coverage" continues almost as long. Sorry, haters: "Al Gore was right," says NY1's Pat Kiernan, playing himself. The ozone layer, Kiernan tells us, has dissipated "far......