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Jul 1, 2020 · by Leonard Quart. Pauline Kael shook up the critical scene with her controversial 1963 Film Quarterly article, “Circles and Squares,” which attacked auteurist critics for their attempts to promote hack Hollywood films as serious works of art. During the mid-Sixties, she freelanced, writing for McCalls’s, The New Republic, Sight and Sound ...
Jul 3, 2020 · Modern Maturity, March-April 1998, pp. 48-52, 80. Pauline Kael has brought the same fierce passion, independence, and incisiveness to her movie reviews since she took on Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight in 1952. When her first book, I Lost It at the Movies (1965), and her 1968 appointment as a movie critic for The New Yorker brought her national ...
Jan 16, 2020 · By Liam Lacey
Jan 11, 2023 · "Spielberg means play-mountain; 'spieler' is an actor in Yiddish, and a 'spiel' can be speech or can be a play. I've always thought how wild that this guy is this great once-in-a-century ...
Courtesy of HBO. By James Poniewozik. Oct. 5, 2017. Is Steven Spielberg too popular to be an artist? The question has hung over his career since he barely had one, when The New Yorker critic...
Mar 19, 2015 · “My favorite was Pauline Kael, who said it was like having your head stuck in a pinball machine for two hours,” noted Gale.
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May 8, 2017 · Pauline Kael was critical of Raiders of the Lost Ark, saying Lucas and Spielberg had thought like marketers in creating a film that would appeal to the broadest masses. Kael said though Raiders was a sophisticated update of older serials, avoiding cliches with clever editing, it was too focused on surpassing each previous action spectacle to ...
