Karina Longworth

2 weeks ago | youmustrememberthispodcast.com | Karina Longworth

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. How does an artist once perceived to be ahead of his time fall behind the times? The choreographer/director of Golden Age classics like Singin’ the Rain and Funny Face left Hollywood for all the 60s and the first half of the 70s, perfecting a certain brand of sophisticated comedy/romance abroad with films like Charade, Bedazzled and Two for the Road.

3 weeks ago | youmustrememberthispodcast.com | Karina Longworth

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This episode was originally released on December 22, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. In the 1940s, Louis B. Mayer was the highest paid man in America, one of the first celebrity CEOs and the figurehead of what for most Americans was the most glamorous industry on Earth. In 1951, Mayer was fired from the studio that bore his name.

3 weeks ago | listennotes.com | Karina Longworth

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3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Karina Longworth

In 1982, The Advocate published an interview with film director and living legend of Hollywood’s golden age, George Cukor. The Advocate had existed since 1967 and was, at 15 years old, the name-brand publication of the LBGTQ+ community. Cukor had been making movies in Hollywood since 1930, and, at age 82, he was the industry’s oldest working filmmaker.

Oct 30, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson |R.C. Baker |Karina Longworth |Michael Nirenberg

You might visualize the broke and grimy New York City of the 1970s through a prism of iconic films, such as The French Connection, Taxi Driver, or The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which was released 50 years ago this month. If you haven’t seen it, Pelham is a tightly coiled, nervous-paced thriller about four subway hijackers who take hostages, demand a million-dollar ransom, and threaten to shoot one passenger per minute if kept waiting beyond an hour.