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1 month ago | 
houstonpress.com | Karina Longworth |Houston Press
There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson organized in 70mm-equipped houses across the country, and later in response to the film's official bow at the Venice Film Festival.
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1 month ago | 
youmustrememberthispodcast.com | Karina Longworth
In The Old Man is Still Alive, we will look at the late filmographies of a number of directors whose careers began in the early decades of Hollywood, who were still making movies in the 60s and 70s (and even 80s).
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2 months ago | 
youmustrememberthispodcast.com | Karina Longworth
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In part two of our season finale, we explore the final decade of John Huston’s life and career. As he was slowly dying of emphysema and undergoing massive turmoil in his personal life, Huston continued to work almost compulsively on both passion projects (The Man Who Would Be King, Wise Blood, Under the Volcano) and paycheck gigs (Annie).
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2 months ago | 
youmustrememberthispodcast.com | Karina Longworth
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. This series began with the story of a director who wrote his autobiography to secure his place in history after his career had gone down the drain. It ends with the story of a man who wrote his autobiography as a “dead man walking”...and then continued to make movies for another half a decade, until the literal last breath left his body.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months ago | 
listennotes.com | Karina Longworth
Listen Later API Data 1024) isOpen = false" @mouseover="if (window.screen.width > 1024) isOpen = true" > | Login Listen Later API Data 1024) isOpen = false" @mouseover="if (window.screen.width > 1024) isOpen = true" > | Login LS 78 TOP 0.01% ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗 You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former...
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2 months 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.
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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.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
karinalongworth.substack.com | Karina Longworth
"It's been weird knowing you," Kim Novak's glistening moll says to rumpled Fred MacMurray, about a third of the way through Richard Quine's 1954 noir Pushover. I didn't catch how this was translated into French subtitles, but I can tell you that I was the only person in the packed house at the Cinematheque Francaise last Saturday afternoon who laughed at it.
