Posts by Karina Longworth
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Hollywood Archeology: Beloved
How we got to the year of Fruitvale, The Butler, and 12 Years a Slave.
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The Legend of Harvey Scissorhands
He wins Oscars, but does Harvey Weinstein actually make movies better?
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Six Degrees of Swanberg: Meet the Director of Drinking Buddies and Center of the New Indie Universe
The director of the Olivia Wilde–Jake Johnson rom-dramedy Drinking Buddies, and co-star of director Adam Wingard’s twisty, droll home-invasion thriller You’re Next, Joe Swanberg is sort of the new Kevin Bacon. With several dozen acting and directing credits in the last eight years, you could make a game out of connecting recent American indie-film luminaries […]
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Cannes Interview: Nebraska’s Will Forte on His Dramatic Shift and Why He Really Left SNL
On Sunday night, 76-year-old veteran star Bruce Dern — father of Laura, Oscar nominee for Coming Home, Tom Buchanan to Redford’s Gatsby — won the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his turn as Woody, an obstinate but mentally fading Middle American alcoholic retiree in Alexander Payne’s new movie Nebraska. Dern’s performance […]
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Cannes Interview: Alec Baldwin and James Toback on Seduced and Abandoned and Hustling in Hollywood
There’s a movie Alec Baldwin wants to remake, a 1974 biblical parable called The Savage Is Loose. The original was directed by George C. Scott (three years after winning Best Actor for Patton) and starred Scott and his real-life wife, Trish Van Devere, as a couple, the only survivors of a shipwreck, who spend two […]
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Cannes Interview: Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck on Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Their Career Choices, and the Joaquin Debacle
The first thing I said to Rooney Mara was so wrong, it turned out right. It’s the Sunday midpoint of the Cannes Film Festival, and I’ve just sat down in a subdivided hotel ballroom across from Mara and Casey Affleck, costars of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, the moody, Malick-esque criminal lovers odyssey from young American […]
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Hollywood Archaeology: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Unearthing a major disaster to learn the lessons held within.
