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.
artist fool firsts
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
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.
television knees this-generation
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
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.
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.