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Hace 4 días · (Pauline Kael cited it as one of the rare examples of someone doing something new and inventive in film acting.) A full retrospective of Nichols’s film-directing work is taking place at the Cinémathèque française this May and June—and unfortunately, the key Nichols work they are missing is the David Hare–directed Mourner.
Hace 2 días · Pauline Kael, who adored his work, quoted a friend approvingly; Mazursky’s films, she said, are cultural comment without hairshirts. To mourn him in 2014 is to mourn Hollywood’s reluctance to get this sort of film financed unless it’s out of a studio’s so-called indie division run by George Clooney.
Hace 4 días · 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
Hace 21 horas · HANLEY: So it’s 50% Yo La Tengo but it’s from Pauline Kael’s book of film criticism. Pauline was the GODDESS of film reviews. She’s the best to ever do it. She’d write about the cinema, the crowd, the mood in the theatre. Long before anyone was doing this. SANDSTROM: What’s your favorite movie theatre in NYC? HANLEY: Metrograph.
Hace 21 horas · P is for Peter. G is for Greenaway. – Peter Greenaway was born in Newport, Wales in 1942. His father was a builder’s merchant and ornithologist. His mother was a teacher. After the war the family relocated to Essex. In the early 60s Greenaway studied at Walthamstow School of Art in London. Trained as a painter, his first art exhibition was ...
Hace 3 días · Critic Pauline Kael, writing about his directing style, said that Altman could "make film fireworks out of next to nothing." In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altman's body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. He never won a competitive Oscar despite seven nominations.
Hace 5 días · A feud between two of the biggest names in rap quickly escalated into a mutual smear campaign. How did a conflict based in craft become one that was about so much more? With Vinson Cunningham ...
