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
art pieces television
Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
art too-much enough
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
country people world
In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.
movie ifs senses
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.
art giving-up artist
An artist must either give up art or develop.
movie real order
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.
art appetite given
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
taste culture reverence
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
art school pleasure
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
light people strange
For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.
movie colossal
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.
stars believe giving
Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.
movie believe thug
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?
mistake anxiety judgement
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.