Email Author Karina Longworth

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 5, 2010

  "Sundance's Rebel Yell"

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2012 Stories by Karina Longworth

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  Wes Anderson's Larger-Than-Life Moonrise Kingdom

  published May 23, 2012

  It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny,... More >>

• Culture Clash Yuks in Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator

  published May 16, 2012

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More >>

• Internal Affairs: On the Job with French Child Protection Cops in Polisse

  published May 16, 2012

  An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris's Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an entire season... More >>

• Tonight You're Mine

  published May 9, 2012

  This entry in the "hot young opposites attract over the course of one long night" genre takes place at Scotland's muddy summer counterpart to... More >>

• Superheroes Bump Superegos in Joss Whedon's All-Star Avengers

  published May 2, 2012

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract—a powerful, potentially... More >>

• It's a Cooler World: Shirley Clarke's The Connection Back in Theaters

  published May 2, 2012

  Shirley Clarke's The Connection is a faux document of a day in the life of a group of heroin addicts holed up in a one-room New York... More >>

• Brit Marling is Back from the Future in Sound of My Voice

  published April 25, 2012

  Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do in Goodbye First Love

  published April 18, 2012

  Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love, begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola... More >>

• Bobcat Goldthwait's Voice Has Changed

  published April 11, 2012

  Bobcat Goldthwait is moving. As he settles into a booth across from me for a late-afternoon meal to talk about his new movie, Goldthwait's... More >>

• Here

  published April 11, 2012

  Will (Ben Foster)—a lone-wolf American cartographer on contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in Armenia's... More >>

• Guy Maddin's Dream-world of Ideas, Bolted Shut in Keyhole

  published April 4, 2012

  The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of The... More >>

• We the Party

  published April 4, 2012

  A self-financed passion project, We the Party grew out of writer-director-star Mario Van Peebles's self-described "incognegro"... More >>

• Whit Stillman in Distress

  published March 28, 2012

  Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semi-autobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his... More >>

• New York Is Over. (But First, Weather on the 1s in Abel Ferrara's Last Day on Earth)

  published March 21, 2012

  In writer/director Abel Ferrara's vision of the apocalypse, Chinese joints deliver right up until the end. The media's "live coverage"... More >>

• Man Child en Español: How Did Will Ferrell's Casa de Mi Padre Happen?

  published March 14, 2012

  Casa de Mi Padre, which opens in New York this week, is a Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell as a simpleminded, asexual... More >>

• A Lost Boy and a Sliver of Hope in the Dardenne Fairy Tale The Kid With a Bike

  published March 14, 2012

  The Kid With a Bike , the new film... More >>

• The Visions of Nina Menkes

  published March 7, 2012

  Filmmaker Nina Menkes has made five features in the past three decades. All of them appropriate Hollywood genres—noir, horror,... More >>

• Attenberg

  published March 7, 2012

  Athina Rachel Tsangari's disarming second feature—Greece's unsuccessful submission for a Best Foreign Oscar nomination one year after... More >>

• The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

  published March 7, 2012

  Directed by Marie Losier, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer... More >>

• Father and Son Scholars Grapple with Each Other and the Truth in Footnote

  published March 7, 2012

  In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi)—a fortysomething... More >>

• This Is Not a Film: The Filmmaker Who Isn't

  published February 29, 2012

  In 2010, the internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home. A neorealist who has been a vocal opponent of... More >>

• Being Flynn Can't Stop Telling Us Exactly What To Feel

  published February 29, 2012

  Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,... More >>

• The Snowtown Murders

  published February 29, 2012

  Based on real crimes that occurred in Snowtown, Australia, in the late 1990s, The Snowtown Murders is a dull thriller of ultra-bleak... More >>

• Hipsters

  published February 22, 2012

  "Every hipster is a potential criminal," warns a student communist in Valeriy Todorovskiy's musical period piece. These "hipsters" are, in... More >>

• Hollywood's Happy Ending: Why the Academy Has to Love The Artist

  published February 22, 2012

  To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is... More >>