Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kaelwas an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 June 1919
CountryUnited States of America
Pauline Kael quotes about
among bursting country creativity encourage somehow
In this country we encourage ""creativity"" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow ""too much.
among bursting country creativity encourage somehow
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.
tests virtuous feels
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
movie baby couple
When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.
movie art expression
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
doors feet want
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
mistake anxiety judgement
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
movie believe thug
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?
movie colossal
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.
taste culture reverence
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
movie looks actors
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
tissues tests hollywood
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?
innocence corruption ifs
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
depressing art mean
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.