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
believe cities good-movie
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
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Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.
perfect
Great movies are rarely perfect movies.
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.
movie believe care
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
movie mean people
We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.
advertising life-is propaganda
All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.
country art real
He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
movie art long
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.
art independent bigs
Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.
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Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
mass-culture form deprivation
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
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Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
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An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.