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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2010 Stories by Karina Longworth

• Kevin Smith's Cop Out So Cliché-Filled It Just Might Work!

  published February 23, 2010

  Cop Out establishes its movie lineage right away, with a slow-motion toe-to-head tilt up, set to the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til... More >>

• Jessica Hausner's Lourdes Refrains from Demystifying

  published February 16, 2010

  With its palette of hot poppy red and cool sky blue, its deft mining of the subliminal comic potential of grand, historically heavy locations,... More >>

• October Country's Days of the Living Dead

  published February 9, 2010

  The white, working-class, Upstate New York dead-end of Mohawk Valley is surely not the milieu metal frontman Al Jourgensen had in mind when he... More >>

• Garry Marshall's Valentine's Day Massacre!

  published February 9, 2010

  In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with... More >>

• The Safdie Brothers Hit Sundance (and BAM) with Daddy Long Legs

  published January 26, 2010

  Every Sunday afternoon, Marjorie Eliot hosts a jazz concert in her Harlem living room. Strangers file in, fill up a few dozen folding chairs,... More >>