Pauline Kael
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Review: 'For the Love of Movies'...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... In this article: Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Boston Phoenix, Otis Ferguson, and Bosley Crowther |
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Village Voice | November 09, 2009
Nabokov, Meet 50 Cent: Zadie Smith's Changing My Mind
...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.
In this article: Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, E.M. Forster, 50 Cent, Barack Obama, The New York Review of Books, The Sunday Telegraph, and Smiths
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Vanity Fair: James Wolcott's Blog | November 08, 2009
The Bored and the Gored
...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...
In this article: Kathy Griffin, Jason Schwartzman, Wanda Sykes, Ted Danson, Trademark, and Bravo
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Independent.ie | November 06, 2009
So, who really did write 'citizen kane'?
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...
In this article: Orson Welles, Herman J Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane, William Randolph Hearst, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth
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The Huffington Post | November 05, 2009
Mike Ragogna: Stop Making Sense With Jerry Harrison & Chris Frantz, Plus a Robert Francis Interview, John Mayer News, and More
...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...
In this article: John Mayer, Talking Heads, Weezer, Stop Making Sense, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, Jonathan Demme, and David Byrne
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | November 03, 2009
Music: Nashville or Bust:Week 22: Lee Hazlewood, space cowboy/peculiar guy
...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...
In this article: Lee Hazlewood, Frank Sinatra Jr., Mojo, Melody Maker, Nashville, A.V. Club, Nancy Sinatra, and Some Velvet Morning
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washingtonpost.com | October 27, 2009
Shales on TV live: Too much Halloween programming on Syfy
...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...
In this article: Tom Shales, Halloween, Jay Leno, The Mist, Dirty Harry, Thanksgiving, HBO, Washington, D.C, and Showtime
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Village Voice | October 26, 2009
'1962: New York Film Critics Circle' at BAMcinématek
...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...
In this article: Andrew Sarris, New York, The Chapman Report, Armond White, Shoot the Piano Player, Ingmar Bergman, Jack Smith, Jerry Lewis, and Hollywood
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washingtonpost.com | October 13, 2009
Books: Ron Charles Reviews Jonathan Lethem's 'Chronic City'
...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...
In this article: Jonathan Lethem, Manhattan, Simulacrum, Marlon Brando, New York City, Delusion, and The Book of Other People
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washingtonpost.com | September 18, 2009
Book World: Review of 'The Big Rewind' by the Onion's Nathan Rabin
...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...
In this article: A.V. Club, Judaism, Quentin Tarantino, Zeitgeist, Trademark, Solipsism, and Magnetic field
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boston.com - Latest movie news | September 05, 2009
Film reviewer turns camera on peers
...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.
In this article: Andrew Sarris, A Face in the Crowd, Dwight Macdonald, The Village Voice, Boston Phoenix, and Manny Farber
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Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached movies emotionally, with a strongly colloquial writing style. She is often regarded as the most influential American film critic of her day and left a lasting impression on many major critics including Armond White and Roger Ebert, who has said that Kael "had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades."
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