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23 de ago. de 2012 · A Critic and a Poet. Pauline Kael showed us how to talk about popular art and fall in love with movies. By Clive James. September 2012 Issue. When she was at the height of her fame, influence ...
28 de dic. de 2016 · Baby, the Rain Must Fall. by Pauline Kael. Ridley Scott, the director of the futuristic thriller Blade Runner, sets up the action with a crawl announcing that the time is early in the twenty-first century, and that a blade runner is a police officer who “retires’’—i.e., kills—”replicants,” the powerful humanoids manufactured by genetic engineers, if they rebel against their ...
16 de mar. de 2024 · Reed, who has written for The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and, since 1987, The New York Observer, is the last of the celebrity critics, those taste-makers who wielded power over the movie business from the 1960s through the 1990s. A knife in the throat could destroy a career. A pat on the head could lead to an Oscar nomination.
16 de sept. de 2017 · September 16, 2017. The following review, one of the most renowned in the history of film criticism, appeared in The New Yorker magazine on October 28, 1972. In her iconic review of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, Pauline Kael heralds the film’s premiere as a pivotal moment in cinematic history, paralleling its impact to the ...
20 de may. de 2022 · Marlon Brando: An American Hero. By Pauline Kael. March 1966 Issue. The history of the motion-picture industry might be summed up as the development from the serials with the blade in the sawmill ...
27 de oct. de 2011 · Once Kael’s fortunes finally changed, it was through a lucky break as improbable as starlets being discovered at Schwab’s drugstore. Arguing with a friend about a film in a Berkeley ...
More Pauline Kael in the July 2019 issue of Sight & Sound Mission critical. On 25 July 1982, at London’s National Film Theatre, Pauline Kael invited questions from the audience. In an edited selection from a previously unpublished transcript of the event, she explains why good films make her a better writer. → Buy a print issue
