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Moving Image Institute Day One: The Divide

April 12, 2008 – 1:00 am

The first guest speaker on the first morning of the Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, New York Times critic A.O. Scott made a comment about the problematic nature of Iraq films that seemed to me to serve as a wider metaphor for the current crisis facing those of us struggling for [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (16)

Bret Easton Ellis: Struggling Screenwriter

March 24, 2008 – 1:48 pm

With an almost completely dead, holiday hungover RSS, I spent the morning leisurely slogging through this LA Times profile of 80s it-boy novelist Bret Easton Ellis. Much of the story’s 3,000 words are devoted to defenses of Ellis’ literary reputation, most notably for our purposes from New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, who [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Screenwriting | Comments (1)

David Edelstein Has A Blog

September 17, 2007 – 2:31 pm

…and a burning desire to resurrect the debate about the relative merits of SIDEWAYS.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community | Comments (0)

Scott’s Simpsons Bias

July 27, 2007 – 8:25 am

Should critics even be allowed to review films that they’ve indicated ahead of time they’re probably going to love?

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film watching | Comments (3)

Who will be our guide?

March 19, 2007 – 3:35 pm

Downloading movies is a slow process that most people don’t have time to bother with, but it won’t always be that way. What will we do when even more movies compete for our attention?

By Kristin | Posted in Culture/art, Film marketing and distribution, Film watching, Spout.com | Comments (0)