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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2011 Stories by Karina Longworth

• Indie-Darling Nominees Are No Match for the Most Old-Fashioned Films Among Them

  published February 24, 2011

  Paramount, distributor of David O. Russell's The Fighter, celebrated the helmer's Best Director Oscar nomination by placing a "For Your... More >>

• Sundance: Cults and Uncertain Futures Dominate the Festival

  published February 3, 2011

  In Mike Cahill's Another Earth — a multiple prize-winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival and one of two titles movies OR... More >>

• Sundance's Prodigal Children Return

  published January 27, 2011

  The Sundance Film Festival, which ends January 30, self-identifies as a "discovery festival," meaning that it embraces its own legend of being... More >>

• Natalie Portman Follows Black Swan With an Awfully Good Romantic Comedy

  published January 20, 2011

  Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave) would seem an unlikely candidate to... More >>

• The Company Men Takes Pity on the Emasculated Executive

  published January 20, 2011

  Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate,... More >>

• Blue Valentine: Love Is a One-Way Street

  published January 13, 2011

  When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested that the so-called "kiss of death"... More >>

• Another Year: Choosing Between the Smug Couple and Their Loser Friends

  published January 13, 2011

  Another Year, the 10th feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim... More >>

• From Party Girl to Oscar Winner, Sofia Coppola's Journey to Somewhere

  published January 6, 2011

  Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the manager of the hotel,... More >>