Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kaelwas an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 June 1919
CountryUnited States of America
dancing wizards want
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
sex taste
Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.
reality people want
Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.
art fighting lightning
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
thinking punching males
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
patience art waiting
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
art business independent
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
years people effort
If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.
past hair teeth
Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.
mistake worst movie-making
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
sarcastic flair
Her only flair is in her nostrils.
getting-older way vulnerable
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?
nuts people
Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.
art museums clown
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.