DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... unfailingly do, is in some essential way stupid….) For you youngsters who don’t recognize the name Pauline Kael , well, you’re lucky.
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
... her; that's how hip we were. ANYWAY. There we were in the screening room and all of a sudden Pauline Kael regally breezed in, followed by her retinue, which flanked her left and right. James W., David D., David E., or was it David Ehr.?, and Elvis M. Had Pauline been wearing a cape these four fellows would have been holding it aloft. They came in on gales of derisive laughter....
Time (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
It's usually fairly easy for a movie critic to drum up a date for a screening. But persuading someone to join you at the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's solemn, searing postapocalyptic novel The Road is apparently akin to asking if they'll help you transport nuclear waste. One friend essentially declared that even if Pauline Kael rose forth from the grave to endorse this cinematic...
Blackadelic Pop (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... Going On. I think it’s the best album of an amazing era in black music."Elvis Mitchell, Esquire Pauline Kael wrote that The Godfather Part II was the first movie to say no in thunder. She could've said the same thing about Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly soundtrack. A seductive and rhythmic counterpoint to the picture's message about ripping off the Man -- and what blaxploitation picture...
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Director Gerald Peary emphasizes the essential role that disagreements have played in the history of film criticism: from the quarrels of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael to the frequent arguments of Siskel and Ebert during their influential years as the co-hosts of At the Movies , critics and their audiences have thrived on divergences of opinion. Peary knows that the joys of reading...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... most famous clash in American film criticism, the dogfight over auteurism between Sarris (pro) and Pauline Kael (anti). Kael looms large in other ways - she had a penchant for grooming young critics who came to be called the Paulettes. Peary concludes on a downbeat note about how many critics have lost their jobs in recent years. If you're passionate about movies, you should...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... from the commercial to the fringe, to find some sort of affirmation. In her critique of La Notte , Pauline Kael found fault with Marcello Mastroianni’s character. She argued that there was nothing about his performance that revealed him to be a writer. Writers always evaluate their surroundings, they are the mirrors and sponges of society; but Mastroianni just floats on the...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I'd watch this Tom Petty music video ( ) a thousand more times before I'd go see one more Tim Burton movie. He's right up there with Peter Jackson as far as I'm concerned. Remember what Pauline Kael once said about Alan Parker? "He's got style to burn. And that's exactly what he should do with it -- burn it." Somebody stop Burton before he remakes Mary Poppins with Johnny Depp.
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... mover. Without him Bored to Death would be an indie movie on the installment plan. To paraphrase Pauline Kael on Barbra Streisand, I'm finding myself falling out of like with Kathy Griffin. Vainglory has infected her standup routine, as reflected in the title of her latest Bravo comedy special, Balls of Steel , where she slovenly slings around four letter words, knowing they'll be...
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel [4AD, 2008] Toronto – Legendary Film Critic Pauline Kael once described... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin .
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel [4AD, 2008] Toronto – Legendary Film Critic Pauline Kael once described... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin .
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... Hughes high school pictures. But contemporary critics saw deeper truths beneath its surface. Pauline Kael, nearing the end of her tenure at the New Yorker, said it conveyed the sense that Lloyd "stands for something, like Jacques Tati's Mr. Hulot."Crowe still recalls reading her review in a Seattle mall. "I couldn't believe how much she understood about our intentions, and she picked...
