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Hace 4 días · In other words, May’s first film was, from her perspective, a failure before it reached theatres, and its critical acclaim (with the notable exception of Pauline Kael, of The New Yorker), two ...
16 de may. de 2024 · The hosts also consider other feuds of note, from a nineteenth-century debate over Shakespearean actors that ended in violence to the writer Renata Adler’s blistering takedown of the film critic...
Hace 5 días · Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice for 27 May, 1971, on Pauline Kael's "Citizen Kane" series in the "New Yorker" (from February, 1971) Part three of four D. K. Holm
24 de may. de 2024 · Pauline Kael’s review of Saturday Night Fever captures the raw sensuality of John Travolta’s character, Tony, a nineteen-year-old Italian Catholic from Brooklyn. Travolta’s portrayal of Tony, with his exaggerated physicality and desperate need to dance, draws the audience into the film’s pop allure. The movie explores the ...
17 de may. de 2024 · The movie is an ad for The Blue Angels, the Navy, planes, the military generally, and an iconography-based sense of patriotism, as much as the "Top Gun" films, the first of which was memorably described by New Yorker critic Pauline Kael as "a recruiting poster that isn't concerned with recruiting but with being a poster."
25 de may. de 2024 · Pauline Kael lauds “Carrie” for Brian De Palma’s masterful horror-comedy blend, Sissy Spacek’s stellar performance, and the film’s thrilling, trashy charm and innovative style.
12 de may. de 2024 · It elicited some snarling reviews — Pauline Kael called it a “crude, ritualized melodrama” — and was assailed by charges of racial stereotyping.
