tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320082472011-12-13T19:56:54.447-08:00karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.comBlogger1491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-54542289760135956662007-03-19T13:17:00.000-07:002007-03-19T13:19:43.735-07:00

Today/tonight, I'm moving this blog from Blogger to Wordpress. I was going to try to hold of until the weekend, but I just can no longer stand the way Blogger insists on fucking my shit up. In case the URL transition does not go smoothly right away, you can temporarily look for new posts at misskarina.wordpress.com.

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Just followed a link and found this Personism's List of Woman Speakers For Your Conference. A great, much-needed idea. I've just returned from SXSW, a conference which goes out of its way to program its panels diversely, and still I was the only woman on the panel I moderated. Go follow the link and if you have suggestions, post them in the comments over there. I sent Jen, who moderates the site,

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I'll have further in-depth considerations of several films over the course of this week (I have a lot of real work to catch up on first), but here's my take on each film I saw at SXSW 2007, in Twitter-inspired blurb form.Everything's Gone Greendir: Paul Fox/stars: Paul Costanzo, Steph SongHas Douglas Coupland left the house since 1996? His first screenplay recycles sub-plots and pretension from

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Jesus Christ ... for the first time in my life, I'm actually on top of a tech trend:Also: lots more SXSW stuff to post. Unfortunately, I spent half of today struggling with the hotel internet, and the other half investigating moving this blog to WordPress (prognosis good so far). Tomorrow is a sparsely-scheduled day, so I'll try to get caught up before I get back to New York.

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If you've been following the film component of SXSW 2007 at all over the past week, you've probably read more about Hannah Takes the Stairs than any other narrative film at the Festival. If you're reading this blog, chances are you've already read profiles and reviews in much larger outlets (although I must note that I received no response to any of the three pitches I sent out several weeks ago

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My first SXSW story for Netscape just went live. Here's an excerpt:The South By Southwest Film Festival is widely considered to be one of the top showcases for documentary film in North America, and if we're to take the 2007 lineup as an indicator of general trends, then there is currently no hotter nonfiction genre than the election movie. The Festival (which began last Friday and runs

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I've got a ton of catching up to do with SXSW coverage. Expect stories on and Running with Arnold and King Corn on Netscape later this week; I'll have some notes on Hannah Takes the Stairs, Orphans, and Everything's Gone Green here shortly. In the meantime, follow my adventures at Twitter.

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Okay, this is my final update here before leaving for Austin in the morning. Just to sum up -- I'm speaking on three panels this year:1) Which Niche is Niche? Saturday, March 10, 3pmFilm festival panel on indie marketing. I'm moderating this one. Also on this panel:Chris Hyams Founder & CEO, B-Side Entertainment Eamonn Bowles Pres, Magnolia Pictures Jim Miller Executive Director,

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Wow. Just ... wow. I actually kinda like Amy Winehouse, but this is possibly the most painful thing I've attempted to endure all week, and as someone who gets paid nicely to make sure "funny" cat videos abide by a corporate TOU, that's saying something. If this kind of god-awful repurposing of the 80s is what even British kids are willing to settle for ... well, then we need Dr. Jean now more

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When your film's got a bleached-blonde, wild-eyed Christina Ricci half-naked with a chain around her waist, you really don't need a critic's blurb to make your poster. But, just in case the folks at Paramount Vantage decide to pursue critical credibility with the DVD release of Black Snake Moan, here are their best bets for the pullquote:"Capra for alcoholics and bar-hounds!" - Vadim Rizov, The

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-60272780534796050492007-03-07T11:51:00.000-08:002007-03-08T08:41:35.771-08:00

It took surprisingly long for this to hit the New York Times, but I've just learned that Jean Baudrillard died on Tuesday at the age of 77. Baudrillard is pretty much the only serious French theorist I can name whose reputation survived a brief moment at the forefront of American pop culture. Eight years after the scholar -- always something of a drunken brat -- flirted with total obscurity by

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It's a gloomy, icey day in New York, and I'm dreaming of Austin. So, here's some SXSW miscellany that I've collected this afternoon. I leave on Friday. If you'll be there, add me as a friend on Twitter so we can keep track of one another. I also plan to Festmob.Jette (who will be joining me for a StudioSX chat on Tuesday) has put together an awesome guide to SXSW film venues. I've now made a note

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The news of Ernest Gallo's death at the age of 97 immediately made me think of Orson Welles. Like so many children of the late 70s/early 80s, my first awareness of the auteur behind what some consider to be the greatest Hollywood film ever made came from his appearences in telelvision commercials for Gallo and Paul Masson wines.It's well-known that Welles spent a chunk of the 70s nearly destitute

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I've made a couple of changes to this blog template, most visibly, to the title bar above. I've set it up so that the four images can be cycled out and around, depending on my current whims. As I make changes, I'll blog about them. Hopefully, this will give me an excuse to blog about more than shit I'm writing elsewhere and professional acquaintences who are doing better than me. Notes on the

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Another bit of Premiere-mag related breaking news has just made it (18 hours after popping up on Reuters) to my virtual desk: Anne Thompson, former Premiere scribe and most recently deputy film editor of the Hollywood Reporter, is leaving that trade for its rival, Variety. She's been named deputy editor of Variety.com. Anne was an early supporter of the film site I started, Cinematical, I've long

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No, I havn't read it much since college (and even then, it was the late 90s and the mag was already in decline), but the news that PREMIERE magazine is shutting down after 20 years in print is still kind of bummer. Obviously, it's one less outlet for film freelancers to pitch to -- and, in the dumbest irony in recent memory, I was actually in the midst of digging up the mag's contact info so I

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-91628464201859195262007-02-26T17:44:00.000-08:002007-02-26T17:46:26.327-08:00

I started a Twitter account, based on the idea that it'll help me keep track of people at SXSW. Stupid idea? Not sure yet. Come be my friend and we'll find out together.follow KarinaLongworth at http://twitter.com

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Today on Netscape:"Nobody watches the Academy Awards to find out what the kids are into. It's not about celebrating trends, it's about placing new cultural products within the historical context of Old Hollywood, thus confirming a given movie's status as capital-A Art. To incorporate intentional, "ironic" amateurism into an institution designed to legitimize factory-produced mass entertainments

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My story on the finale of The O.C. was cut from 2,500 words to about 1,000. Here are the outtakes; the rest of the article was just published here.It may be inevitable that all ensemble cast prime-time dramas about the lives of wealthy teens in Southern California be compared to 90210, but The O.C. would seem to share more with its FOX ancestor than the obvious lifestyle porn trappings. For one

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I'm writing a story for Netscape pegged to the demise of The O.C. I cut out the following tangent on 90210; I'm pasting it here to remind myself to revisit this theme someday.For those who haven’t caught up with Aaron Spelling’s masterwork lately, here’s a brief refresher. The first three of the show’s ten seasons focused on Brandon and Brenda Walsh, Minnesota-bred teenage twins played by Jason

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For your President's Day viewing pleasure, see above. High school must be much easier to bear now that kids are allowed to get away with stuff like this. I love it that Aaron Burr is into Wu-Tang.

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Stuff I've done this week:Why Anna Nicole Never Became a Movie StarThe Psychology of Torture: Interview with Rory Kennedy, Director of Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

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My alma mater Cinematical was at the center of a bit of controversy this week (and yes, this is totally inside baseball, so if you have no interest in The Politics of Bloggery, click away now).Here's what happened: Erik Davis was representing the site at Berlinale, and a couple of days ago, he filed a report from the press screening of Frank Miller's 300, where, he said, the comic book adaptation

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I love this -- Technorati asks its users to explain the appeal behind the day's hottest searches.

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As you may have noticed, I've added a SXSW button to this page. Not only will I be attending the entire conference for the first time ever, but I've got three speaking things lined up. First up: on Saturday March 10, I've been asked to moderated a Film panel called "Which Niche is Which?", featuring indie marketing giants such as Eamonn Bowles and Peter Goldwyn. Then, on Sunday March 11 at 5pm,

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Questioning Sharon Waxman's reportage skills is not exactly a groundbreaking endeavor. I'm not only not the first to hop this train; I actually hopped it myself two years ago, in a short-lived column on Cinematical where I called out Waxman and friends for pumping the box-office-slump vein that was all the rage the summer of 2005 (succeeding regimes have, for reasons unknown to me, taken the

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Chapter One: The Miseducation of Flavor Flav"We're considering you for a part in our new production. How do you feel about playing a controversial Negro?""Yeah, I'm with it."Apparently.

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Factory Girl opens in NY today and, like most local critics, David Edelstein could barely condescend to spit out a coupla hundred dismissive words. But his final line caught my eye: "Factory Girl does suggest a resonant topic for future cultural-studies classes: the evolution of the downtown film scene from Warhol to Weinstein."Obviously, Edelstein's not seriously trying to do much more than jab

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A long article in the British newspaper the Independent says "Groundhog Day" is "hailed by religious leaders as the most spiritual film of all time." Perhaps not all religious leaders have seen anything by Bergman, Bresson, Ozu and Dreyer, but never mind: They have a point, even about a film where the deepest theological observation is, "Maybe God has just been around a long time and knows

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Just two more bits of Sundancana, and then I'll (hopefully) go back to regular blogging. First: on Netscape, a look at three overlooked Sundance gems, including On The Road With Judas, pictured above. Then, Ryan asked me to do a festival recap for Cinematical, and I spat back a list of five films that are likely to survive the transition from Park City to the real world.

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With just a couple of days left in the Fest, and my work all but done (I may have one more film-specific feature, then I'll do a fest wrap-up after the Awards on Saturday night), here's a look at the stuff I've cranked out thus far. I'll update this post with links to any further stories.Above: An interview with Daniel Kerslake and Bishop Gene Robinson, director and star of the documentary For

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My second Sundance feature is now live on Netscape. I tried to focus on the sale rather than give away too much of what I really think: though I admired Strouse's refusal to force the middle-American conservative to show growth by abandoning his support of the war, I suspect Grace is Gone is actually the same shitty indie roadtrip film we've seen a thousand times before. Good work from Cusack,

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My first story from Sundance 2007 is now live on Netscape :The Work of Art in the Age of Post-9/11 Paranoia: Lynn Hershman Leeson's Strange Culture

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Subscribe to Sundance Channel on YouTubeJesus Christ, these two have come a long way in two years. Their intro to their daily Sundance vlog plays like a recap of the past 750 days or so, so watch it if you need to catch up.I'm going to be doing some vloggy stuff from Sundance, too, for Netscape, as well as 7-8 features on highly-politically-charged films at the Fest. In addition, I've got a

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"The Globes are selected by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a loosely-defined, corruption-ridden organization that seems to grant membership to any interested party boasting a non-U.S. passport and an affiliation with the entertainment media. Think of it this way: these are the greatest achievements in film and television as decided by the people who produce the Argentinean

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We're going to see The Fiery Furnaces at North Six tomorrow night, in what is supposedly one of the last shows there before Bowery Presents takes the place over. Above, the Gondry-esque video for "Tropical Iceland" (I actually like the album version of this song better, but this is better than nothing).That Little Round-Headed Boy has been powering through a Bowiethon, ostensibly in honor of his

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I'm interrupting my self-imposed vacation from blogging for an essential blockquote: with the Top Ten list the latest battleground in the epic mass plea for attention pissing contest that is film bloggery, J. Hoberman prefaces his '06 list with a predictably spot-on reclamation of the practice:A curious form of journalism, film reviewing is highly topical yet essentially timeless. It consists of

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The National Film Registry has announced their 2006 list of inductees, and whilst Dave Kehr can't resist turning up his nose at the body's annual, token appeals to populism ("Now remind me: what was the historic importance of Blazing Saddles? The first fart joke in a major studio film?"), I find the list to be, once again, the most fascinatingly schizophrenic document of film historiography

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-31610549319933513612006-12-27T06:06:00.000-08:002006-12-27T08:17:22.070-08:00

It took Spike Lee roughly 30 hours to turn the death of James Brown into a paying gig: last night Brian Grazer announced he's handing the director his long-in-gestation Brown biopic. Spike won't be able to get to it until he's finished memorializing the L.A. riots and sequelizing Inside Man.Chris Campbell takes a brief looksee at Brown's filmography at Cinematical. Above: the incredible "Living

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Hey, Factory Girl opens in two days -- in Los Angeles only. Harvey apparently thinks he can get Sienna an Oscar nom is he keeps this debacle away from the NY press. Sienna is seen above reacting to the news with something less than enthusiasm. [via MCN Indie]Perfume, which I haven't seen, is getting shitty reviews. The ever-astute Ed Gonzales rants at Slant: "That Jean-Baptiste takes to women so

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At the Facets blog, Brian Elza puts Eyes Wide Shut at number 4 on his list of Holiday Flicks For Cool Kids. "Nicole Kidman stops the show by forcefully saying “Fuck” in what appears to be a giant FAO Schwarz toy store. That’s holiday gold, Stanley." Above: my favorite picture of Tom and Nicole, and possibly my favorite picture of any celebrity couple, ever.Guy Maddin shares space with Miami Vice

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Tom Hall is organizing a blogger Best of 2006 pool at indieWIRE; below you'll find my entry, with some added notes.Best Film: The Science of Sleep, dir. Michel Gondry9 runners up, in no order:Children of MenMarie AntoinetteThe QueenThe DepartedWristcutters: A Love StoryMutual Appreciation Sleeping Dogs LieOld JoyFactotumBest Performance: Gael Garcia Bernal, The Science of SleepThere wasn't a

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It's no secret that most of the working Western world all but shuts down from December 20 through the end of the year, but the media always makes a valient attempt at making it look like the lights are still on, even if it means the TODAY show has to scrape the bottom of the parent company's barrel in order to compensate for the absence of Merdith Viera, Matt Lauer AND Al Roker*** (who is

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Sleeping Dogs Lie (or, Stay, as it was called when I saw it at Sundance) opened on a couple of screens a couple of months ago to zero fanfare, and has since disappeared. It's too bad; I don't think anyone expected a movie about a girl trying to tell her boyfriend about a regretable act of beastiality would set the box office on fire, but I had hoped that at least the bloggers would have given it

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Remember last week, when you thought Michel Gondry was some kind of foot genius? See incontrovertible evidence to the contrary above.The Guardian's film staff and friends count up 50 Lost Movie Classics. It's an inspired list, the kind of alternative contemporary history that's definitely worth keeping in mind when updating the Netflix queue. Sample selection: "#33 Less Than Zero -- An example of

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-59068729668655055202006-12-18T09:15:00.000-08:002006-12-18T12:06:58.435-08:00

In today's Hollywood Reporter, Anne Thompson has a rundown on the spat between Bob Yari and Warner Brothers over The Painted Veil. Yuri alleges WB isn't mounting the Oscar campaign they promised; he says, "Someone up there wants the film buried." WB's Alan Horn says it isn't true -- he blames the China for Veil's release delay and slow-moving marketing campaign. Warner China, a partnership

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"If someone looks like he hasn't either bathed or been outdoors in weeks, he's probably a blogger. Yes, even humble bloggers are invited to leave their attics and basements during Shmooze Season." As if we needed it, Peter Bart provides more incontrovertable evidence that he is even more of an asshole in his obsolescence. [Via The Carpetbagger]Arin and Susan have won another prize. I've been

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-54267009849122728352006-12-15T07:41:00.000-08:002006-12-15T07:48:46.009-08:00

Just got word that the IFC Center will be hosting a 19-day Robert Altman retrospective, starting January 5. From the press release:The program will include more than twenty of Altman’s films, including the masterworks McCABE AND MRS. MILLER, NASHVILLE, THE PLAYER and SHORTCUTS; his breakthrough, M*A*S*H; the groundbreaking faux-documentary series TANNER ’88, about a fictional presidential

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-3034022375259496662006-12-15T07:06:00.000-08:002006-12-15T07:33:30.742-08:00

That Little Round-Headed Boy has produced the first end-of-year wrap list that I actually enjoyed reading. The Dreamgirls backlash marches on: Ryan Stewart, Aaron Hillis and Tony Scott collectively shrug. As usual, Dave Kehr has the best 25-words-or-less summation: "Jamie Foxx is in it because he won an Oscar a couple of years ago, and Eddie Murphy is in it to prove he’s not turning into Bill

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-39008694250209640612006-12-14T13:50:00.000-08:002006-12-14T13:57:50.415-08:00

I had to send someone a headshot today. I don't have headshots, or for that matter, servicable pictures of myself of any sort, so I just sat in from of my MacBook and fired up Photo Booth. This was the worst of the outtakes:Here's the one I eventually sent:

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I've read this on twelve blogs today, most recently The Reeler: Bob Dylan is trying to get an injunction on Factory Girl, The Weinstein Company's Edie Sedgwick biopic, because it portrays a character based on him as having something to do with Sedgwick's drug-fueled death. The producers have said the character, which Hayden Christensen plays in his first post-Skywalker stretch, is a composite of

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Remember when I said I wasn't going to do this kind of shit anymore? I should really stick to that, but this is just the Globes, which we all know are the result of Italian gossip columnists making lists of which Hollywood celebrities they'd like to watch getting messy drunk. That makes it just a little bit of fun to pretend like it matters. I have two thoughts:1. Did the 9/11 films open too

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-18868480177735821352006-12-14T07:25:00.000-08:002006-12-14T07:43:51.147-08:00

Keith Uhlich posts a question at The House Next Door and gives me a twofer: "What movies have you walked out of?" A judge has decided that he needs to see Alpha Dog, the ONLY film I walked out of at Sundance 2006, before he decides whether or not to let it open. Let's hope he's an astute critic...Via Matt Dentler: Premiere has re-launched their website, adding a bloggy news page. Looks good so

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It took me all day, but I finally finished a write-up on Sundance Channel's just-announced excursion into Second Life. Read the whole thing here. In summary: for the niche that already cares about films like Four Eyed Monsters and already dabbles in things like Second Life, this is a dream come true. But seen on a larger scale, corporate entertainment companies have a long way to go when it

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-11304202954011201802006-12-13T04:29:00.000-08:002006-12-13T04:41:39.028-08:00

Above: Scarlett Johansson strips down to her bra and panties, swings from a rope, cashes check.WagerWeb.com has posted odds for the next celebrity DUI. I love it how a bet on Mary-Kate Olsen pays out 13:1, but her sister Ashley isn't even ranked.Both of the above links come via WeSmirch, which I am obsessed with. The Sundance Channel is launching a screening room inside Second Life. More on this

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-55953563646857688232006-12-12T15:23:00.000-08:002006-12-12T15:46:28.987-08:00

Via WeSmirch (the new Techmeme, for pop culture and gossip): an L.A. judge has thrown out a suit filed by those frat boys who claimed they were duped into getting drunk and wistfully bemoaning their lack of slave ownership in Borat. At the height of Boratmania (a dark and mercifully brief era which will no doubt go into the history books as a regretable side effect of temporary post-millenial

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-4647220495757659452006-12-12T10:59:00.000-08:002006-12-12T11:29:19.030-08:00

If I haven't written much about Inland Empire, it's only because I'm deeply ambivalent about it, both as a work of art and as a work for sale. I've seen the film just once, and though if I could bring myself to sit through it again, I might feel differently, I stand by my original impression: if Lynch was willing to part with about 45 minutes out of the middle, he'd have made a masterpiece. Still

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-70442024020435188702006-12-12T10:20:00.000-08:002006-12-12T10:35:22.875-08:00

Whitney at Pop Candy has an interview with Justin Rice of the band Bishop Allen and star of Andrew Bujalski's Mutual Appreciation. He talks about his sudden, brief period of overexposure in relation to that film:Well, we shot Mutual Appreciation almost three years ago...And then, honestly, I kind of forgot about it. I think the thing that surprised me most was when it came out. One day, sort of

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-87723508055637441122006-12-11T13:44:00.000-08:002006-12-11T13:53:54.832-08:00

Is South Park a show for liberals? Are its creators libertarians? Or is it actual a tool of the Right, their main weapon in an attempt to "overthrow the liberal media and political correctness"? Inspired by REASON mag's interview with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, I put together a brief summary of the ideological battle over the cartoon for Netscape. Above, see a clip from the infamous

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-65506192778078467632006-12-08T12:48:00.000-08:002006-12-08T11:00:25.442-08:00

Nick and I are going to Connecticut to celebrate our anniversary. I'll be back late Sunday or Monday with some thoughts on The Holiday, The Painted Veil, and cinematic love. Speaking of, see Miss Kubelik running back to Mr. Baxter, above.

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Update on the post below: I found the full US Weekly Camille Paglia interview, via Ann Althouse, via Memorandum. I like Althouse's closing take:As to the young celebs caught up in crotchgate.... They've grabbed your attention. They are the fixation of the whole world right now. That's something. It doesn't matter at all, really. But it's an impressive feat, however pointless.

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-7166121722890149852006-12-08T06:22:00.000-08:002006-12-08T06:44:17.080-08:00

I never met him myself, but as I work for a major technology company, I know quite a few people who knew James Kim, and all of them are really fucking upset about this. Mr. Skin.com ranks the best nude scenes of the year, thereby handing Salma Hayek the most prestigious award she'll ever earn. [Via Cinematical]Lindsay Lohan sent a cracked-out email to her friends and employees, informing them

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-34000181018967400042006-12-07T10:53:00.000-08:002006-12-07T11:14:31.010-08:00

To his biggest fans, Lynch's interest in 9/11 "countertheories", is not new news -- he's been posting about it on his members-only blog for awhile. At Netscape today, I traced this interest back to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, who allegedly predicted the attacks of 9/11. Lynch, of course, funds the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes the Maharishi's

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-50388863216668450332006-12-07T07:39:00.000-08:002006-12-07T08:01:43.393-08:00

There are two possible ways to react to the announcement of the National Board of Review awards: you can either issue a grand proclamation stating your intent to ignore them, or, you can admit that, however silly the group and their choices often seem, their lists sometimes have to power to start (or reveal) conversations about films that we would otherwise not be having. The Carpetbagger takes

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-45131145402425782612006-12-06T17:10:00.000-08:002006-12-06T17:16:39.377-08:00

We unveiled a few hot new features at Netscape today. My favorite, which didn't make it into today's announcement, is the RSS feeds for each Anchor's Commentary (for those unfamiliar with the site: at Netscape, "Anchors" are editors who essentially blog over the top stories of the day, providing background info on the story or the site, and adding related links, further reporting and analysis).

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-20086513888260933812006-12-06T12:34:00.001-08:002006-12-06T13:22:44.407-08:00

Wow ... the National Board of Review Awards came out this afternoon, and the slate is full of surprises. Biggest of all comes in the biggest category: Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima for Best Picture? Seriously? It's a film that virtually no one has been talking about, largely because its companion film, Flags of Our Fathers, basically came and went when released earlier this fall. The

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-71483964565565528632006-12-06T12:20:00.000-08:002006-12-06T12:27:04.808-08:00

I just updated my Amazon Wish List, to include Under the Rainbow, John Carlyle's memoir which includes a detailed account of his affair with Judy Garland (confusingly, Under the Rainbow is also the title of a different Garland-family chronicle, a ten-year-old exploitography on Liza Minnelli); and Sound and Vision: A Music Video Reader, which seems to whip in about out of availability every week

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-58358153682823192612006-12-06T11:35:00.000-08:002006-12-06T12:04:12.522-08:00

From Idolator (which is quickly supplanting Defamer as my favorite Gawker blog; it feels fresh and not completely jaded, whereas Gawker and Defamer both seem to be in slump, as though they haven't quite figured out what they can offer in a world in which Perez Hilton has stolen their "steal an image and wait for the lawsuits/mainstream press to roll in" game) comes the news that the geniuses who

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-82843732617213954532006-12-06T04:42:00.000-08:002006-12-06T05:14:16.800-08:00

Morning Links, 12-6-06 Manohla makes it clear that Inland Empire is an awful lot of work to sit through, but ends up generally recommending it. I'm torn myself. There are moments of pure, cinematic horror and pleasure in the film that rival anything I've ever seen on screen, but in its current incarnaton, I can't imagine ever being able to watch it for a second time. I wrote about the picture

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-77920069887414674542006-12-06T04:06:00.000-08:002006-12-06T04:12:46.915-08:00

Blogging "Before the Code" - Update 1David D'Arcy weighs in on a few selections from the series at GreenCine Daily. On The Bowery: The Bowery opens in a bar called "Nigger Joe's," and from there to the end, not a single stereotype is spared - Jewish tailors swarm around an unsuspecting buyer of a suit, an Irish hoodlum played by Jackie Cooper sets "the Chinks" on fire, and the Irish break into

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-20730300187141187752006-12-06T03:55:00.000-08:002006-12-06T04:02:07.077-08:00

Andrew Bujalski joins Bruce Weber, Pipilotti Rist at CinemartVariety has a bit on this year's Cinemart lineup at Rotterdam. Bujalski will be there, competing for co-production assistance with Bruce Weber's "Robert Mitchum tribute, Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast, a work-in-progress that has already been shot," and Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist feature debut, Pepperminta. Sounds it'll be

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-43170633599194639712006-12-05T11:51:00.000-08:002006-12-05T12:13:11.286-08:00

Rape of the SoulI get a lot of press releases that I basically ignore. I was thinking of starting a feature on this blog (for pleasure of my four unique viewers), where I post excerpts from the funniest/silliest press releases -- you know, the stuff about, like, the DogCatemy Awards. For that purpose, I was scrolling through my deleted mail today to see if there were any releases I had recently

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Why Doesn't Martin Scorsese Want WB To Buy Him An Oscar?The bushy-browed auteur has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Director category six times but has never snagged a statuette. Now, sources close to him are saying Scorsese has requested that Warner Bros. not promote him for The Departed, the highest-grossing and, in the view of many critics, most audience-friendly film of his

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Stupid Celebrity Political Moment of The Day: Gwyneth Blames "Anti-American" Comments On Shitty American School System:The actress has recently been criticized after she was quoted as telling the Portuguese newspaper Diario De Noticias, "The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans." [...] Paltrow says she did not give an interview to the Portuguese daily newspaper,

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Blogging Fox Before the CodeEarlier today, I wrote about Hoopla, which screened this weekend as part of Film Forum's Fox Before the Code series. I'm so excited about this series that I've completely rearranged my schedule this week in order to make screenings. Here's a list of other blog posts I've come across re: the series. I will update and repost this list as needed."Using dissolves, sound

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-15177442190566294812006-12-03T19:15:00.000-08:002006-12-04T10:40:35.756-08:00

In 1933, Clara Bow was a little bit better off than she had been in 1931 -- when anxiety over a couple of failed attempts at parlaying her massive silent picture stardom into talkies pushed her into a minor nervous breakdown -- but only marginally so. After a convalescence, she had signed a two picture deal with Fox which guaranteed a salary of $250,000 a year, and had launched straight into

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More Harmony stuff, again via Ray Pride:Harmony Korine - one time punk and enfant terrible of the New York indie scene - was there in a very ordinary shirt and V-neck jumper but could barely contain his excitement about having last week finished editing his new film Mister Lonely. 'It's pretty weird but it's the best thing I've ever done, by a long, long way,' he told me. It stars Samantha Morton

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-40603771008693670242006-12-01T12:36:00.000-08:002006-12-01T12:53:41.439-08:00

Legitimizing Jackass in the pages of ArtForum"Playing on more than three thousand screens, Jackass 2 was the number-one-grossing movie in America on its opening weekend—and the male stars eat shit and drink horse semen for real. They’re nude a lot, too. If this isn’t cultural terrorism, I don’t know what is."John Waters' Top Ten Films of 2006 looks surprisingly similar to my own list, although

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-78684589774228135672006-12-01T12:02:00.000-08:002006-12-01T12:09:58.503-08:00

As far as I'm concerned, You Tube is interesting solely because it allows us to revisit and disseminate Great Moments of Popular Culture that would have otherwise died on VHS. Here now, is Harmony Korine on David Lettermen:My favorite part:Dave: How much does this [Harmony's "novel", A Crack-Up At The Race Riots] go for?Harmony: I think it's regular book price ... I can't imagine why anyone would

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-19399828251492135752006-12-01T09:09:00.000-08:002006-12-01T10:31:38.818-08:00

Four Eyed Monsters opens todayArin and Susan got their NY Times review, and it's as positive as these things get. But I thought it was interesting that Laura Kern implied that Four Eyed Monsters, the feature grew out of Four Eyed Monsters, the online presence:Susan Buice and Arin Crumley, two young Brooklynites searching for new and exciting ways to express their creativity, met online and

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-67413508556265691302006-11-30T14:24:00.000-08:002006-11-30T14:31:23.284-08:00

Obsession of the Day, 11-30-2006I love this -- the World of Wonder blog has posted a clip (an outtake? raw footage? not sure) from a RuPaul-hosted Christmas special, circa 1993, featuring an appearence by Nirvana. At a producers coaxing, the band sings "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", followed by warm Christmas greetings directed at Ru. Oh, 1993. I miss you so much.

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-18067809366541076982006-11-29T22:08:00.001-08:002006-11-29T22:08:57.542-08:00

In a bout of insomnia, I've added some hand-coded additions to the blog roll. More to come, next time I can't sleep.

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Studio 60: The FlowchartThis explains why I like the show, but not why my boyfriend watches it with me without complaint.

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Leonsis on NankingTed Leonsis, outgoing Vice Chairman of the company I work for, produced a documentary called Nanking which will be screening in competition at Sundance. He blogs about it here.

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Sundance Competition SlateHighlights on first glance. I don't know why,but I'm drawn to the ghost movies this year...Documentary CompetitionChasing Ghosts (Director: Lincoln Ruchti)—Twin Galaxies Arcade, Iowa, 1982: the birthplace of mankind's obsession with video games. The fate of this world lies in the hands (literally) of a few unlikely heroes: They are the Original Video Game World Champions

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-27331558274399543582006-11-29T12:08:00.000-08:002006-11-29T12:18:50.375-08:00

Four Eyed Monsters is finally getting its big, "real" theatrical opening in New York City this Friday. It's a big week for the duo, what with their Independent Spirit noms, and the always-welcome badge of legitimacy that is the NY Times review, which will probably be online by this time tomorrow. As much as I like the movie, I'm anxious to see how Arin and Susan are going to top it, so selfishly,

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Sundance spelunking.On Wednesdays, I get up at 5:30 am and work until noon-ish, and then have the afternoon off. Usually, I use part of the afternoon to take a nap, and today I'm really going to need one if I'm going to make it to the Indiewire anniversary party tonight. But, instead, I'm sitting here refreshing my Gmail and Bloglines over and over again, because today the Sundance Film Festival

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Above, a made-for-You-Tube Clara Bow clip reel. Below, selections from Film Forum's "Fox Before the Code" series that I'm going to try to attend, in order of priority. This is more of a "note to self" than anything else. For an actual summary of Film Forum's latest rep festival see Elliott Stein's take in the Voice. Cinematical's Ryan Stewart should have something soon, too.SERVANTS’ ENTRANCE - (

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Sofia Coppola gives birthIt's a girl! A half-French baby girl of 100% genetically pure hipster coding, named Romy. To celebrate, a horrible camcorder bootleg of one of my favorite sequences from Marie Antoinette, the masked ball/junior prom.

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Betty Comden diesAsleep as I was through the weekend, I missed the news that Betty Comden died on Thanksgiving. Along with Adolf Green (who, like Comden, was a former cabaret partner of Judy Holliday), Betty wrote book and lyrics for modernist musical classics On The Town, It's Always Fair Weather, The Bandwagon and Bells Are Ringing. As not a single You Tube user has yet had the foresight to

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Independent Spirit Noms AnnouncedAnne Thompson's got the full press release. A couple of thoughts right off the bat :1. It would appear that Film Independent took last year's gripes, that the noms had become too mainstream, very, very seriously. The only film nominated in the Best Feature category that looks and talks like a Hollywood movie is Little Miss Sunshine; much to my chagrin, it's been

karinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15680477899151982216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-22089161353694628362006-11-28T07:33:00.000-08:002006-11-28T07:36:27.949-08:00

A Saved By The Bell superfan's wet dreamVia The Daily Reel. Additional episodes can be found here.

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What is Kurt Loder doing?I'm talking about the video clip on the top left, not the column that takes up the majority of the page, in which the aging founder of MTV News uses The Fountain as an excuse to fondly drift back to "the Roger Corman days," although that looks like a symptom of the same syndrome. But that's nothing compared to the horror of watching Loder (who apparently turned 61 this

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Long weekend, much needed.In a couple of hours, I'll meet up with Nick and we'll head off to New Jersey for a long-awaited holiday weekend in the suburbs. But first, I'm going to head into the city and try to track down a copy of the Criterion edition of Secret Honor, which I've never seen, but which since the death of its director, I can't get out of my head.While I'm gone, take a look at this

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Altman's Dead. Long Live Altman Junior!As Jeffrey Overstreet puts (via the comments of David Hudson's obit at GreenCine Daily), "Pass the mantle to Paul Thomas Anderson, Altman's disciple, who will carry on the style and improve upon it, as Altman himself admitted."So, above and below, Altman and Anderson's take on the same (musical) theme. Skip to about 1:50 0n the video below, if you must.

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Robert Altman is DeadI'm working on something for Netscape; more later.

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My Favorite Response to Kramergate Thus Far:Nikki Finke blames comedy clubs: "[M]any of today's comedy clubs have become a cesspool of hatred. Inside them, racism, ethnic prejudice, religious bigotry, homophobia and sexism all masquerade as humor. Anyone who's been to the clubs and heard the acts knows this to be true." She sounds as familiar with "the clubs" and "the acts" as Kramer did on

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Jeff Lipsky, writer/director of Flannel Pajamas, writes at indieWIRE about the real-life relationship that inspired the picture. It's a movie I'd like to see again, especially after reading the backstory, which includes a dose of Lipsky's indie film mogul history that didn't make it into the film.The article mirrors what I remember of the picture: it's full of lovely anecdotes punctuated by

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