tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320082472007-03-19T15:18:43.487-07:00karinaBlogger1491tag: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 Green dir: Paul Fox/stars: Paul Costanzo, Steph Song Has Douglas Coupland left the house since 1996? His first screenplay recycles sub-plots and pretension

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I was planning to write (gasp! an original blog entry that doesn't involve reposting my work from Netscape) something today about Dance Party, USA, Aaron Katz's short-but-sweet first feature, which opens at the Pioneer Theater here in NY today. Watching it -- however ironically, from a screener, because I couldn't fit it into my schedule at last year's SXSW -- it seemed to fit so comfortably in

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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

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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, 3pm Film 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

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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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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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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,

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

karinatag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32008247.post-80910323995432676022007-01-21T15:00:00.000-08:002007-03-04T16:40:04.044-08:00

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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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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Frequently Asked Questions What's your deal? I'm an entertainment writer living in Long Island City, NY. Where might I know you from? That's a good question. In March of 2005. I co-founded a film blog called Cinematical, and served as its editor and lead contributor for almost exactly a year. During that time, I covered a bunch of festivals, wrote 10 news items a day as well as 3-4 feature

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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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