"Conversations with Pauline Kael" brings together roughly half of Kael's published interviews along with a lively debate between Kael and Jean-Luc Godard. Collectively, the interviews provide rewarding perspectives on Kael's aesthetics, her politics, and her perceptions about what it is she does as [...]
"Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for "The New Yorker," Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a [...]
A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century s most influential movie critics. Los Angeles Times
Engrossing and thoroughly researched. Entertainment Weekly
ANew York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of 2011
The first major biography [...]
Vintage Kael, on swinging good form in her first anthology of film writing, on such mid-century classics as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc., coming out with comments and asides so fresh it's as if the movies were only release[...]
The intelligent person's guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviews Look up a movie in this guide, and chances are you'll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next. Pauline Kael's reviews aren't just provocative---they're addictive.
These brief, informative reviews, writt[...]
For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was one of America's most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewer, yet her film criticism for The New Yorker has never been systematically discussed or analyzed. This collection of essays on Pauline Kael investigates the range, scope, an[...]
"Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a ge[...]