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Going Steady
She is a good critic, wonderful in the ways she combines intimate practical knowledge with unbuyable and human personal reflections.
John Updike
Pauline Kael on the movies makes most critics of anything else seem like well intentioned bores... What is rare is the w... -
I Lost it at the Movies
I care about Miss Kael's criticism as literature. Her reviews can be read before, immediately after and long after we have seen the movie that inspires or exasperates her.
John Leonard, New York Times
Pauline Kael is the critic you can read every inch of...
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
A Note on the Title
The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies a... -
Raising Kane
Contributor:Introduction by Philip French, Film Critic & Radio Producer (1933-2015)Raising Kane and other Essays offers the b...
Movie Love
With the publication of I Lost it at the Movies in 1965, Pauline Kael turned routine movie reviewing into an unprecedented popular art form, and her work remains exemplars of the genre and valuable in their own right historiographically as cultural commentary on mid-20th century mass med...
Reeling
Film writings from 1972-1975, by Pauline Kael, the only film critic ever to have won the US National Book Award in Arts and Letters. The collection includes the long, prophetic, analytic essay 'On the Future of Movies' that proved contentious in its criticism of the Hollywood system, which Kael t...