Karina Longworth

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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] TimeOut 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.

She is dating film director Rian Johnson.[13]

Education

  • 2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • 2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from San Francisco Art Institute
  • 2005 Masters of Arts in Cinema Studies from New York University[5]

Career

  • January 2005 – March 2007: regular contributor to the film blog Cinematical.com
  • March 2005 – February 2006: editor in chief of Cinematical.com (Cinematical was bought by AOL in October 2006)
  • October 2006 – 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 2013 – present: freelance writer, author and researcher; Adjunct faculty at Chapman University

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 over seventy episodes so far, all written and narrated by Longworth.[13] It has become one of the top film podcasts; the Washington Post called it "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." No more qualified she may be, but as to influence, 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]

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"[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]

Bibliography

  • 2014 "Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor", Phaidon Press, ISBN 0714866695
  • 2013 Al Pacino: Anatomy of an Actor, Phaidon Press, ISBN 0714866644
  • 2012 Masters of Cinema: George Lucas, Phaidon Press, ISBN 2866429044
  • 2009 The Portable SpoutBlog: Rants, reviews and reports from the film blog edited by Karina Longworth, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 1448695716

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