Karina Longworth

Karina Longworth

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Karina Longworth is the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the film blog Cinematical. She has written about film, new media and popular culture for a variety of sites and print publications, including NewTeeVee, Netscape, TV Squad, and FILMMAKER Magazine. She currently blogs about film for Spout.com, where she also contributes to the Webby-nominated FilmCouch podcast. Karina is based in New York and can be contacted via her personal site, Vidiocy.com.

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Redacted

Posted September 2, 2007 | 09:27 PM (EST)


About 10 people walked out of this afternoon's Telluride screening of Brian DePalma's Redacted, most during a horrific rape scene right in the center of the picture. The bulk of those who stayed gave the HD dramatization of the real-life rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S....

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Rescue Dawn: No Longer Patriotic?

Posted August 21, 2007 | 03:38 PM (EST)


MGM's decision to release Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn on July 4 was more than just a clever Transformers counter-programming gambit: it was an implicit attempt to mark the German director's POW drama, a dramatic remake of his own documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly, as a red state-targeted tribute to...

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Trapped in the Closet: It's Here, But it Could Be Queerer

Posted August 14, 2007 | 06:49 PM (EST)



Recently, IFC's Evan Shapiro defended his company's production and distribution of new chapters in R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet saga by comparing the "hip hopera" pioneer to postmodern trash god John Waters. Trapped, according to Shapiro, "challenges the traditional mores and sexual stereotypes of the current...

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Lindsay Lohan: The Next River Phoenix? Or The Next Judy Garland?

Posted June 7, 2007 | 09:57 AM (EST)


In the days following Lindsay Lohan's Memorial Day hat trick -- the car crash, the arrest, the by-now-infamous passenger seat pass-out captured by paparazzi for posterity -- celebrity-ologists rushed to place the 20-year-old's bad behavior in proper context.

Sharon Waxman, a (former?) Hollywood beat reporter...

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