Name Karina Longworth | Role Film critic | |
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Books Meryl Streep: Anatomy, Hollywood Frame by Frame: T, Al Pacino: Anatomy of an Actor, Masters of Cinema: George L, George Lucas | ||
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Karina Longworth (born 10 July 1980) is an American film critic, author, and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is one of the founders of the film culture blog Cinematical and formerly edited both Cinematical and the film blog SpoutBlog and, while living in New York, was heard regularly on the Public Radio International show The Takeaway. From 2010-2012, she was the Film Editor and lead critic at LA Weekly.
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- Studio sx 2008 presents scott kirsner and karina longworth sxsw
- Author film critic and journalist Karina Longworth I Blame Dennis Hopper
- Education
- Career
- Podcast
- Internet film criticism vs print film criticism
- References
Longworth has contributed to numerous magazines, including New York Magazine, Filmmaker, TimeOut New York, Cineaste, and Las Vegas Weekly, as well as the online publications Slate, indieWIRE, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Village Voice, and Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men blog.
She is dating film director Rian Johnson.
Author, film critic and journalist, Karina Longworth - I Blame Dennis Hopper
Education
Career
Podcast
In April 2014 Longworth launched "You Must Remember This", a podcast devoted to secret and forgotten stories about Hollywood throughout the twentieth century. Distributed by the Panoply network in association with Slate Magazine, there have been over sixty episodes so far, almost all written and narrated by Longworth. It has become one of the top film podcasts; the Washington Post called it "laceratingly funny".
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, 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." No more qualified she may be, but as to influence, the New York Times has called Longworth, "freakishly smart" 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."
Online film critics are considered by some to be the next wave of film criticism. 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" 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?"