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Pauline Kael (/ k eɪ l /; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, [2] Kael's opinions often ran contrary to those of her contemporaries.
Pauline Kael, who died Monday at the age of 82, was the high priestess of film criticism, either hated or loved by fellow critics for the originality and unswerving nature of her opinions.
Jun 7, 2019 · By David Edelstein. Pauline Kael. Photo: Erin Combs/Toronto Star via Getty Images. This remembrance originally ran in New York’ s 50th anniversary issue as part of the feature, “My New York: Long...
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Jun 18, 2019 · Pauline Kael (1919 - 2001) changed film criticism with her contrary takes in the New Yorker on "Bonnie and Clyde," "West Side Story" and more.
Aug 30, 2019 · Pauline Kael, eloquent, incisive, histrionic, and stubborn, engendered the idea of the amateur-as-critic. She didn’t study film, nor did she study writing, and yet for three decades she was America’s preeminent writer on film, the progenitor of modern film criticism as well a reminder of what criticism no longer is.
Oct 27, 2011 · Pauline Kael stood only 4 feet 9 inches tall, but a decade after her death (and two decades after she published her last New Yorker review), her shadow still towers over the landscape of film...
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