What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (Trailer)
Trailer for upcoming movie about Kael. Continue reading What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (Trailer)
Category: Kael
What She Said
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a documentary in the works; see the trailer. Continue reading What She Said
Pauline Kael on Writer’s Workshop
“What’s so Great About Pauline Kael?”
Don’t ask me why, but the library around the corner had a mint condition soft-cover copy of Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon on their remainder rack for $1 (I know, I know, how utterly poetic of them), so of course I bought it, but then I got to wondering, “Didn’t Pauline Kael once have something to say about Harold Bloom?,” which led me to Google … Continue reading “What’s so Great About Pauline Kael?”
George F. Will & Pauline Kael
“Really, Altman’s Nashville is to America what country music is to music — not a close approximation.” Lewiston Morning Tribune, Aug 3, 1975 Continue reading George F. Will & Pauline Kael
Bad Friday Reading #1
There is [Renata Adler’s] famous Pauline Kael review. It is hard to remember what a cultural despot Kael, then the New Yorker‘s film critic, was when Adler took her down in 1980. Kael was bully, drama queen, suck-up, disciplinarian, hysteric, and — taking jobs and inducements from the people she promoted — a bit corrupt, too. Still, opprobrium yet attaches to Adler for her sweeping emperor’s-new-clothes … Continue reading Bad Friday Reading #1
Three chords and a Pauline Kael t-shirt
But I especially like this shirt as a symbol. Just the idea of people wearing t-shirts of a film critic makes me happy. I know a few of you wear a shirt of my logo, which is obviously the best thing you could do ever. But this one is amazing because it looks like a rock t-shirt. It treats analysis of film art as rock … Continue reading Three chords and a Pauline Kael t-shirt
