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
stars believe giving
Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.
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.
persons knows
I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
home sunday night
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.
dirty play righteous
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
addiction directors noir
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
loss car feelings
If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.
life-affirming avoided affirming
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ...
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.