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
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.
mistake anxiety judgement
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
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.
tvs television program
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
directors sometimes repetition
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.
getting-older way vulnerable
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?
mistake worst movie-making
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.