Pauline Kael

...election victory, in which she coined a new name for our future president-"The Man from Dream City," a phrase borrowed from Pauline Kael. Dream City, she said then, "is a place of many voices, where the unified singular self is an illusion.

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...of impulsivity, and a dapper 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...

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In the early 1970s the New Yorker magazine's legendary, fearsome film critic Pauline Kael set the cat among the pigeons when she claimed that Herman Mankiewicz, and not Orson Welles, deserved most of the credit for Citizen Kane. Kael was...

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...the basketball courts across America. And it was a real contrast to the rest of the set. I know that critic Pauline Kael was kind of harsh about it, she felt it didn't work with the rest of the set. But I thought, on the contrary, it's like a...

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...my younger self to tears. So there was something comforting about getting the big-picture pop-culture scoop from Greil Marcus, Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert, or the writing staffs of Melody Maker or Mojo. As much as I appreciate the interactive...

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...as not just wrong but also evil. Worse, it teaches them to think of themselves as evil if they do something wrong. Here's Pauline Kael making that point about the first Dirty Harry film: "...this action genre has always had a fascist...

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...Elephant Art vs. Termite Art"; and Jack Smith's celebration of trash, "The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez." Pauline Kael's piece on Shoot the Piano Player is also polemical, faulting those Americans who failed to appreciate...

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...and a collection of bizarre vintage suits, Perkus once, briefly, ruled the world of music criticism -- "Hunter Thompson-meets-Pauline Kael" -- writing for Rolling Stone and plastering the city with his iconoclastic posters. But now he's a...

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...gambit, not least because Rabin in thrall tends to gush: Quentin Tarantino "takes the art and trash he loves and makes it his own"; Pauline Kael "changed the way I viewed . . . art, movies, and music"; "J.D. Salinger," he intones, with all the...

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...movie would you most want to read? It can be anyone, living or dead. A. This will be the time for Pauline [Kael], I guess. I would really love to hear what Pauline would have to say about the movie. That would be fantastically interesting.

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