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

• Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rom-Competent

  published August 1, 2012

  In Celeste and Jesse Forever, the titular, newly separated female protagonist's un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood) tells her... More >>

• Even China Can't Shut Up Artist/Gadfly Ai Weiwei

  published July 25, 2012

  Chinese artist, activist, and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause célèbre last April when he was arrested by... More >>

• The Queen of Versailles: The Nouveau Crash

  published July 18, 2012

  "I don't want to give you lessons in self-denial and social responsibility," an art dealer tells her billionaire boy client in Don DeLillo's... More >>

• James Murphy and Shut Up and Play the Hits Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem

  published July 18, 2012

  "When we started the band, suddenly we were, like, New York famous. We could get into anyplace, but you know—I was never recognized on a... More >>

• In Trishna, Michael Winterbottom Takes Hardy's Tess to Today's Mumbai

  published July 11, 2012

  Michael Winterbottom is multitasking—like that's a surprise. He has made a dozen films in the past decade, as varied as the Steve... More >>

• Union Square

  published July 11, 2012

  Lucy (Mira Sorvino), a hot mess in a caribou-trimmed minidress and spike-heel boots, shows up in Manhattan, yappy little dog in tow, hoping to... More >>

• Part of Me Reveals Katy Perry's Essential Katy Perry-ness

  published July 4, 2012

  From bubblegum-bi-curious novelty “I Kissed a Girl” on, Katy Perry has built a career on glorious brain-dead-with-a-wink odes to... More >>

• Oliver Stone's Savages Settles for Sensation

  published July 4, 2012

  "Welcome to the recession, boys," says John Travolta's DEA-double-agent profiteer in Oliver Stone's Savages, based on Don Winslow's... More >>

• Magic Mike: A Star Is Bared

  published June 27, 2012

  When Channing Tatum stood up and revealed his bare ass to the camera a minute or two into Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike—which the... More >>

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  Woody's Roman Holiday

  published June 27, 2012

  Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan — a love letter to the titular city, a romantic celebration... More >>

• Subverting the Rom-Com in Safety Not Guaranteed and Lola Versus

  published June 6, 2012

  With her high cheekbones, feline brown eyes, and heart-shaped mouth, actress Aubrey Plaza is bombshell hot. But in an unusual twist for a... More >>

• Identity Crises at Cannes 2012

  published May 30, 2012

  The Cannes Film Festival (which ended its two-week run on Saturday) is nothing if not a study in contradictions. Studio product and tabloid... More >>

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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 >>