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

• 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 >>

• Protect the Abs at All Cost

  published February 8, 2012

  “He's sooo hot,” the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening... More >>

• Sundance in Crisis: 2012 Fest Felt Anxious, Just Like Us

  published February 1, 2012

  It's dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, as a reflection of the character of contemporary indie... More >>

• W.E.

  published February 1, 2012

  W.E. is the second feature film credited to former MTV queen Madonna and the second recent film—after The King's... More >>

• How to Cope: A Family Faces Death Head-On in Declaration of War

  published January 25, 2012

  The gorgeously scruffy Juliette (director/co-writer Valérie Donzelli) and Roméo (co-writer Jérémie... More >>

• King of Queens: Beauty Pageant Swallowed Up By the Drug War in Miss Bala

  published January 18, 2012

  Mexico's submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala literally spells out the destiny of its... More >>

• She Fights Like a Guy, He Grooms Like a Girl: Gina Carano and Channing Tatum Talk Haywire

  published January 18, 2012

  “Steven [Soderbergh] asked me, 'Why is Angelina Jolie the only female action star in the world?’ I told him, 'I don't know,' and he... More >>