Pauline Kael
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"I did have a good time at Wild in the Streets, which is more than I can say for Petulia or 2001 or a lot of other highly praised pictures. Wild in the Streets is not a work of art, but then I don’t think Petulia or 2001 is either, though Petulia has that kaleidoscopic hip look and 2001 that new-techniques look which combined with “swinging” or “serious” ideas often pass for modern picture art."--"Trash, Art, and the Movies" (1969) by Pauline Kael "Can we conclude that, in England and the United States, the auteur theory is an attempt by adult males to justify staying inside the small range of experience of their boyhood and adolescence-that period when masculinity looked so great and important but art was something talked about by poseurs and phonies and . sensitive-feminine types? And is it perhaps also their way of making a comment on our civilization by the suggestion that trash is the true film art? I ask; I do not know."--"Circles and Squares" () by Pauline Kael |
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Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was a Jewish-American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews.
Kael broadcast many of her early reviews on the alternative public radio station KPFA, in Berkeley, and gained further local-celebrity status as Berkeley Cinema Guild manager from 1955 to 1960. As manager of a two-screen theater, Kael programmed the films that were her favorites.
Bibliography
Books
- I Lost It at the Movies (1965)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968) ISBN 0-31648-163-7
- Going Steady (1969) ISBN 0-55305-880-0
- Deeper Into Movies (1973) ISBN 0-7145-0941-8
- Reeling (1976)
- When The Lights Go Down (1980) ISBN 0-03042-511-5
- 5001 Nights at the Movies (1982, revised in 1984 and 1991) ISBN 0-8050-1367-9
- Taking It All In (1984) ISBN 0-03069-362-4
- State of the Art (1987) ISBN 0-71452-869-2
- Hooked (1989)
- Movie Love (1991)
- For Keeps (1994)
- Raising Kane, and other essays (1996)
