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....
D-Day (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
This John Boehner quote , where he says he hasn't met one person who supports the public option, reminds me of the famous quote that has been attributed over the years to Pauline Kael, though there's compelling evidence that it was apocryphal . The quote usually goes like this: Kael was told that Nixon bested George McGovern in a landslide in 1972, and Kael replied, "How...
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
John Boehner ladies and gentlemen: Boehner claimed, with a semi-straight face, that he has yet to meet a regular "American" who favors the option -- despite polls showing that a majority of voters support to the idea of having the choice of a government plan. [Basis for title here - even though unlike Boehner's statement, it's a myth.]
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 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...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... to 1967 -- he alone could make or break a movie -- until a new generation led by Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael began to directly challenge him. Crowther was mainly interested in social responsibility in films, films that managed to "say a little something," rather than sheer artistic exercises or works of personality. The new documentary treats Crowther kindly, but dismisses...
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Welch fluffs Breitbart: Andrew Breitbart (a friend of mine) is nobody’s Pauline Kael, yet he produces bits of real-world journalism that eventually The New York Timeses of the world have to catch up to. This fact is apparently enough to make people’s brains pop. The point Welch is trying to make is simple: the fact that [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... where the critics at least somewhat participate in the act being criticized–no one expected Pauline Kael to make better movies than The Sound of Music , but they lapped up her reviews anyway.) Andrew Breitbart (a friend of mine) is nobody's Pauline Kael, yet he produces bits of real-world journalism that eventually The New York Times es of the world have to catch...
Higher Education and Career Blog (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
... note: You can search reviews by title, keyword or quotable quotes. Newsweek has called her “the Pauline Kael of the Internet.” This is her story. Ms. Ellis married at age 19 after three years at Vassar College. For the next 40 years, while her husband built a company he started in a garage, she did the scattershot work of home and family. In the early days, she kept the books, raised...
The Vulture Lurks (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
One of the reasons I have concern for the future of our world is a little something known as the echo chamber effect. Briefly, this is the tendency of people to gravitate towards sources of information that will reinforce their own beliefs regarding events or topics of interest to them. The echo chamber effect is hardly a recent phenomenon. In what perhaps may be an apocryphal quote, Pauline...
LyfLines (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
It's long been a cliché to laugh at the obliviousness of Pauline Kael, The New Yorker's film critic alleged to have said that "I don't know how Nixon got elected. No one I know voted for him." 1 The idea of a disconnect between the "elite," however defined, and their public is certainly not a recent concept. And the sycophancy surrounding the movers and shakers...
Dennis Perrin (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
... extensions of corporate branding campaigns. A young James Agee would starve in this environment; a Pauline Kael would rattle and confuse her twentysomething editors. So it makes professional sense for Scott to be modest, but even that footing will give way in due course. Scott has been reassessing older films, searching for something new to say. Given what's shoveled out on a weekly...
