{"id":851,"date":"2012-09-01T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=851"},"modified":"2012-09-01T14:40:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T21:40:45","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e6-the-kiss-me-stupid-date-with-karina-longworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E5: The “Kiss Me, Stupid” Date with Karina Longworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Colin Marshall sits down in Sliver Lake with Karina Longworth<\/a>, film writer at the LA Weekly<\/em>, co-founder of the film-culture blog Cinematical, and author of the upcoming Masters of Cinema: George Lucas<\/em>. They discuss the public fascination with criticism versus blogging; J. Hoberman<\/a>‘s notion of criticism as reporting what it feels like to be in the screening room; how she promoted a version of herself in her blogging days, and what she regrets about doing so; the pre-YouTube video essays she would create in school about Moonlighting<\/em>, Judy Garland’s apocryphal marriage proposal to Frank Sinatra, and Maury Povich; whether it makes sense to ask if we live in an interesting time for cinema, and whether she can even tell through the fog of writing about movies every week; time travel films and the oft-fumbled promise thereof, especially in the shadows of Back to the Future<\/em>‘s pop mainstreaming of scientific devices; what she’s learned about making Claire Denis and Sion Sono quickly relevant to readers who may well never have heard of them; how New York gets more movies than Los Angeles, how moviegoing means something different in the two cities, and her cover story<\/a> about the whole dichotomy; her book on George Lucas, and the looming question of what, exactly, happened to him; her fears about her favorite directors getting too much budget, power, and freedom, and her greater fears about the Dodgers falling victim to the same; the strange fate of the rental collection at Kim’s Video<\/a>; her experience of cinematic burnout, and the subjectivity to which is may lead; Andrew Bujalski<\/a>‘s Computer Chess<\/em>, which is actually about computer chess; pictures like Sans Soleil<\/em>\u00a0and Kiss Me, Stupid<\/em>, which so formed their cinematic consciousnesses as to become their representations in film form; and the\u00a0magical, destructive, entrancing, awful myth of old Hollywood.<\/p>\n

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Download the interview from\u00a0Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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