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Journalist Starts Blog; Earth Spins Off Axis, Universe Explodes.

June 24, 2008 – 4:00 pm

A journalist starts blogging; bloggers go apoplectic. Also: novice blogger Peter Bart still talking shit about blogs.

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

Review: Operation Filmmaker

June 3, 2008 – 12:25 pm

This review first appeared in slightly different form during the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Operation Filmmaker opens in New York tomorrow.
As a portrait of post-Sadaam Iraqi youth, Operation Filmmaker doesn’t have the “wow!” factor of another recently released movie about Iraqi kids looking for refuge in American popular culture. But for a film that began [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Documentary, Film Reviews, Indies | Comments (0)

New in Theaters: Stop-Loss, 21, Fatboy

March 28, 2008 – 2:46 pm

I’m going to spend about four hours this weekend with my celebrity boyfriend, Young Albert Brooks, at Anthology Film Archives‘ double feature of two of Brooks’ early, still super-relevant films, Modern Romance and Real Life (see above). But if you’re not lucky enough to be in New York, there are three films opening in general [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film Reviews, Hollywood | Comments (0)

5 Ways In Which The Hills is JUST LIKE An Antonioni Film

March 25, 2008 – 1:19 pm

Today in Cultural Equivalency: testing the theory that MTV’s reality soap is a distant ancestor of films like RED DESERT and L’ECLISSE.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Classics, Culture/art, Foreign Films | Comments (10)

Kurt Loder Scares Us in Oscars Parody

February 22, 2008 – 5:03 pm

This video from MTV may not be the funniest Oscar-related video out there, but it might be the most terrifying.

By Christopher Campbell | Posted in Awards, Horror, Humor, Video | Comments (0)

Jack Nicholson on the Chinatown Trilogy

November 6, 2007 – 12:03 pm

MTV has posted a fantastic interview with Jack Nicholson, in which he talks in depth about Chinatown, its sequel, The Two Jakes, and a planned third film that was to complete the trilogy, but, because of the poor reception to Jakes, never got made. An excerpt:
We always planned on making three films. We wanted [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Classics, Hollywood, Stars | Comments (0)