Karina Longworth

Karina Longworth (born July 10, 1980) is an American film critic, author,[1] and journalist[2] based in Los Angeles. She is one of the founders of the film culture blog Cinematical[3][4] and formerly edited both Cinematical and the film blog SpoutBlog[5] and, while living in New York, was heard regularly on the Public Radio International show The Takeaway.[6] From 2010–2012, she was the Film Editor and lead critic at LA Weekly.[5][7]

Longworth has contributed to numerous magazines, including New York Magazine, Filmmaker,[8] Time Out New York, Cineaste,[3] and Las Vegas Weekly,[9] as well as the online publications Slate,[10] indieWIRE,[11] The Daily Beast,[5] The Huffington Post,[12] The Village Voice, and Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men blog.

Longworth writes, hosts and produces the podcast You Must Remember This, about the “secret/and or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century.”

Her fifth book, Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood will be released on November 13, 2018.

Education

  • Attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • 2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from San Francisco Art Institute
  • 2005 Masters of Arts in Cinema Studies from New York University[5]

Career

  • March 2005 – February 2006: Editor in chief of Cinematical.com (Cinematical was bought by AOL in October 2005)
  • October 2005 – June 2007: Worked at AOL after the takeover of Cinematical
  • March 2007 – October 2008: Columnist at NewTeeVee.com
  • February 2009 – December 2009: Weekly contributor on the national public radio show The Takeaway
  • June 2007 – October 2009: Editor of the daily film culture blog SpoutBlog at Spout.com (now owned by indieWIRE)
  • January 2010 – January 2013: Film critic and editor at LA Weekly
  • January 2014 – May 2014: Adjunct faculty at Chapman University
  • January 2013 – present: Freelance writer, author and researcher

Podcast

In April 2014 Longworth launched You Must Remember This, a podcast that covers lesser-known Hollywood stories from the early- to mid-twentieth century. Distributed by the Panoply network in association with Slate Magazine, there have been 120 episodes so far, all written and narrated by Longworth.[13] It has become one of the top film podcasts; the Washington Post called it "knowledgeable and laceratingly funny".[14]

Internet film criticism vs print film criticism

When she was still a web critic for SpoutBlog, Longworth appeared in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism,[15] explaining the virtues of blogging – for creating a back-and-forth dialogue with readers. About blogging she went on to say, "I have a Master's Degree in Film Studies, but I’m no more qualified to blog than a high school student in Vermont." The New York Times has called Longworth "freakishly smart",[16] and Variety said, "... it's the ever-proliferating bloggers – Spout, Cinematical, Movie City News and Hollywood Elsewhere – that have become the instant barometers for how a film plays."[17]

In 2007 Variety said, "As the pool of well-paid print critics shrinks in size, the next generation of film fans may come to trust critic/bloggers like … Spout's Karina Longworth, who helped to create the major film blog Cinematical".[18] The New York Times has commented, "Are print critics really so all-important and sacrosanct with the Web full of debates about all manner of film in places like indiewire.com, cinematical.com and blog.spout.com?"[19]

Publications

  • The Portable SpoutBlog: Rants, reviews and reports from the film blog edited by Karina Longworth (2009), ISBN 1448695716
  • Masters of Cinema: George Lucas (2012), ISBN 2866429044
  • Al Pacino: Anatomy of an Actor (2013), ISBN 0714866644
  • Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor (2014), ISBN 0714866695
  • Hollywood Frame By Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 1951-1977 (2014), ISBN 1616892595
  • Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood (2018), ISBN 0062440519

References

  1. ↑ Longworth, Karina, ed. (2009). The Portable SpoutBlog. CreateSpace. ISBN 1-4486-9571-6.
  2. ↑ Means, Sean P. (October 13, 2009). "Is Karina Longworth a film journalist?". The Salt Lake Tribune. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium". Cineaste. Vol. XXXIII no. 4. 2008. Archived from the original on October 26, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Rocchi, James (March 22, 2008). "The Rocchi Review – With Karina Longworth of SpoutBlog!". Moviefone. Archived from the original on June 12, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Roderick, Kevin (December 23, 2009). "LA Weekly adds film editor, reporter". LA Observed. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Karina Longworth Film Contributor". The Takeaway. November 25, 2009. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ Simon, Scott (January 29, 2011). "A Flutter Over Films At Sundance". National Public Radio. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ Macaulay, Scott (December 22, 2008). "Filmmaker year in review: Karina Longworth". Filmmaker. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Karina Longworth". Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ Longworth, Karina (January 3, 2011). "The Movie Club". Slate. Archived from the original on January 7, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Karina Longworth". IndieWire. Archived from the original on March 6, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Karina Longworth". The Huffington Post. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ Walker, Tim (October 15, 2015). "You Must Remember This: Podcast reveals the secret history of 20th century Hollywood". The Independent. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  14. ↑ Klimek, Chris (June 26, 2015). "A shallow, gossipy perspective of 'Audrey and Bill'". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  15. ↑ "For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism Acting Credits". The New York Times. March 5, 2011.
  16. ↑ "The Bagger in LA: Post-Game Pyrotechnics". The New York Times. January 13, 2009. Archived from the original on January 21, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  17. ↑ Jones, Michael; Miller, Winter (January 25, 2008). "Blogosphere taps festival buzz". Variety. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  18. ↑ Thompson, Anne (June 21, 2007). "Indie films crave great reviews". Variety. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  19. ↑ Carr, David (April 1, 2008). "Now on the Endangered Species List: Movie Critics in Print". The New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
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  • "Karina Longworth reviews". The Village Voice.
  • "Karina Longworth reviews". Rotten Tomatoes.
  • "Karina Longworth articles". LA Weekly.
  • "Karina Longworth articles". Vanity Fair.
  • "Karina Longworth articles". Cinematical.
  • "Vidiocy: Karina Longworth's Blog".
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