You know, I really don't want to talk about film criticism. But it's more suited to what I want to do right now; what my interests are and sort of the pace of life that I like to lead. “It’s a happy coincidence that Howard Hughes’ entire film career runs in parallel to this period and everything that he experienced in Hollywood has a resonance for actresses. But that is the sort of assignment that interests me the most right now—ones where I am able to learn everything about something. It would be a little less taxing for me as a professor if it was just a film studies class.That sort of stems from being a teenage debater. I do sometimes cut out things that I've recorded, but it's just because they don't work, or in the editing I realize that they're redundant. I have a Masters degree, so I always thought that I would do some teaching. Someday, when I have time, I'd like to do all the research and learn everything about that." 12.1k Followers, 348 Following, 908 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Karina Longworth (@karinalongworth)
For instance, on somebody's Wikipedia profile there will often be conflicting information; information from a lot of different sources. A former film editor of LA Weekly and critic for the Village Voice, she is the author of four previous books, including Hollywood Frame by Frame and Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor. I think it gets stronger all the time, but it also becomes more niche and it becomes more fragmented, almost like cliques. Beginning in 2005, she was on the frontier of online criticism, serving as a voice of reason and intelligence against the domineering print critics who believed online "bloggers" and "journalists" were ruining their sacred profession. They were looking for a writer who could to the research, both on individual films and the idea of the contact sheet and how it functions in the world of still photography. I've just written what I felt needed to be included, and then for some reason they've all been somewhere between 30-35 minutes. It's an unusual thing for students. She is one of the founders of the film culture blog Cinematical and formerly edited both Cinematical and the film blog SpoutBlog and, while living in New York, was heard regularly on the Public Radio International show The Takeaway. This is the time when the studio system was at its peak,” Longworth tells EW of her decision to use Hughes’ life as a framing device.
And it's a beautiful book, the way they produced it is very well done.This is the weird thing: I have never tried to make this podcast a specific length at all. As I said, I really do like focusing on a topic and trying to learn everything I can learn about it and step back from it and get a bigger perspective.
I'm not proud of that work.