Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael

Born: July 19, 1919
Died: September 3, 2001
in Petaluma, California, USA
Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, Kael's opinions often ran contrary to those of her contemporaries.

Movies for Pauline Kael...

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Title: Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 13, 2022
Type: Movie
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Title: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953 and joined ‘The New Yorker’ in 1968. Praised for her highly opinionated and feisty writing style and criticised for her subjective and sometimes ruthless reviews, Kael’s writing was refreshingly and intensely rooted in her experience of watching a film as a member of the audience. Loved and hated in equal measure – loved by other critics for whom she was immensely influential, and hated by filmmakers whose films she trashed - Kael destroyed films that have since become classics such as The Sound of Music and raved about others such as Bonnie and Clyde. She was also aware of the perennial difficulties for women working in the movies and in film criticism, and fiercely fought sexism, both in her reviews and in her media appearances.
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Life Itself
Title: Life Itself
Character: Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Released: July 4, 2014
Type: Movie
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
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Ed & Pauline
Title: Ed & Pauline
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
ED & PAULINE is a portrait of the influential creative collaboration between Pauline Kael and Ed Landberg who through their visionary curation and film writing transformed a small storefront theater into a church for movie lovers.
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Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Title: Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Character: Self
Released: March 9, 2013
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960s and '70s to profoundly embrace life and ‘follow your own weird’.
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For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Title: For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of American film criticism.
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The Magical Eye
Title: The Magical Eye
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film critics and historians on the role and influence of the NFB during its first half century of existence.
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Title: PBS NewsHour
Character: Self (Movie Critic, The New Yorker)
Released: October 20, 1975
Type: TV
America's first and longest running hour-long nightly news broadcast known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events.