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Renowned film critic Pauline Kael has just been announced as the rumored subject of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final film, “The Movie Critic.” Pauline Kael, who passed away in 2001, was known for being a film critic who wrote for the New Yorker from the 60s through the 90s.Bonnie and ClydeFaye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in “Bonnie and Clyde”. Kael’s groundbreaking review of the film helped lead to its success. Credit: Warner Bros. PicturesKael’s career, which spanned decades, focused on many different films, but one of her most influential reviews came at the beginning of her career when she wrote her review of “Bonnie and Clyde”, Arthur Penn’s gangster biopic starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. While many critics bashed the film, especially for its violence, Kael revered it. “How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on? “Bonnie and Clyde” is the most exciting American American movie since “The Manchurian Candidate.” The audience is alive to it,” wrote Kael. “Our experience as we watch it has some connection with how we reacted to movies in childhood: with how we came to love them and to feel they were ours—not an art that we learned over the years to appreciate but simply and immediately ours. When an American movie is contemporary in feeling, like this one, it makes a different contact with an American audience from the kind made by European films, however contemporary.”She has a remarkable ability to put beautiful prose into her reviews without sounding pretentious or overbearing. She has just the right amount of quip, and her points are so well thought out that it’s tough to disagree with her.The Godfather(From left to right) James Caan, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and John Cazale in “The Godfather”, which Kael highly reviewed. Credit:

Given here to be honest. Looks like a well informed critic, who knows her stuff, that's for sure. #8 crheath Posted 19 November 2009 - 09:20 PM After listening to Pauline Kael's comments on the Bond films around the late 70s and early 80s, I have come to the conclusion that she was like any other film critic - someone to ignore.If you want to ignore then why are you commenting? #9 Turn Posted 20 November 2009 - 02:02 AM I always found it curious that Kael once claimed Connery's best performance as Bond came in You Only Live Twice. Her comments on the Moore era weren't anything radical as her views were mostly in line with the majority of critics and reviewers during that time.Though many view her as a high-brow snob, and I admittedly am not a big fan, I like that Kael didn't find herself above talking about action pictures and B films, some of which she was quite fond of. #10 PrinceKamalKhan Posted 20 November 2009 - 02:24 AM Interesting. Thanks for posting. I didn't always agree with Pauline Kael but I often found her reviews fascinating to read. It's interesting that Miss Kael was one of the few critics in 1969 who gave a positive review to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service which I believed she called "marvellous fun". I think You Only Live Twice was her favorite Connery film if I remember correctly. I think the last Bond film she reviewed was A View to a Kill. I would've like to know what she thought of Dalton's Bond and his films but I don't think she ever reviewed them. #11 crheath Posted 20 November 2009 - 04:17 AM I always found it curious that Kael once claimed Connery's best performance as Bond came in

Paramount PicturesAnother great work of Kael’s is her review of “The Godfather” series, Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic gangster films that have gone down as some of the greatest movie duos ever. Kael takes the time to analyze the film almost in the same light as the opening of the film– “I believe in America.”“It’s an epic vision of the corruption of America,” wrote Kael in her 1974 review.Paramount Pictures Job as Creative ConsultantTarantino’s film supposedly takes place during the late 70s, and some fans are speculating that it took place when Kael was working at Paramount Pictures, a job given to her by Warren Beatty.Kael’s position as a creative consultant was short-lived, as her blunt and opinionated nature caused some tension among studio executives.In Kael’s biography, Brian Kellow explains, “In a short time, Pauline demonstrated her lack of finesse at the game of studio politics. It led her to deliver several blunt judgments to executives who weren’t used to being spoken to quite so sharply.”Kael didn’t spend long in the position, but it was still an influential part of her career and her relationship with other prominent people, such as Beatty.Tarantino and WritingFans also speculate that this film will take the history revisionism stance of many of Tarantino’s works, most recently his film “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”, which follows an aging star and his stuntman who kill the Manson family.Tarantino has reportedly finished the script, but there isn’t a studio attached yet or a release date. However, focusing on a film critic like Kael, who loved the idea of movies, would be a great way to finish off.Tarantino has had a rough go with critics and has often faced off against them in the media. Much of the controversy comes from his movies being so violent, as almost all

Of a better way to live."The Pauline Kael documentary was mixed with interviews, photos, and old movie clips. The woman who voiced Marlene Dietrich (Amanda Sykes) was so off! Some of the movie clips did not have anything to do with her reviews and some (Avatar) came out after she had died. The documentary perhaps covered an important aspect of a post-Pauline-Kael world and that film reviewing has been fragmented by the internet. Everyone has a voice now.All in all, she wrote 13 books, hurt people's feelings, was devoted to her daughter and the arts, and complained about having to supplement her income as a critic. Apparently, she changed the art of film criticism and held on tenaciously to her opinions which often went against the grain. Recommended for anyone that is interested in film criticism or film history.Vegan alert:-Bullfighting footage -Milk In the past few months the more I’ve been reviewing movies the more I’ve been questioning whether I should, whether I need to, whether anyone else needs me to - I’ve kind of been working on a “How insane is it that this job exists! People want to PAY for my FEELINGS!” kind of basis. So to watch this doc, notebook open on my lap, sat between two guys (both strangers) who asked me independently why I was so excited and told me why I should be reading more of Pauline Karl’s work but also told me to be wary because she ruined Blade Runner: reader, I may have shed a few small tears. It’s the end of my Berlinale… An appropriately prickly and entertaining overview of Kael’s career. She would’ve been huge on Letterboxd Dot Com. “One doesn’t need to rationalize one’s instincts.”Rob Garver’s What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a good overview of the critic. Garver effectively balances clips of Kael’s many TV interviews—thank you, Dick Cavett—scenes from films she liked and disliked, and interviews with critics and filmmakers who knew her or admired her or had mixed feelings. The controversial side of Kael is covered briefly: her dismissal of Andrew Sarris’s auteur criticism, her excessive championing, despite her misgivings about auteurism, of such directors as Robert Altman and Brian De Palma, her dismissal of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, her claim that Herman Mankiewicz is the true auteur of Citizen Kane. We hear passages from Kael’s writings (read by Sarah Jessica Parker)… As absent

Of anything like intellectual rigor or historical curiosity or visual buoyancy or insight or simple joy as any documentary that I've seen, centered on a subject that should rouse all of those at once. Limp yet overbearing direction; music that holds your hand to make sure you're feeling the right things; interviews with colleagues, admirers, and friends boiled down to sound bites, scrubbed almost entirely of intimacy. Among all these issues, it's worth underlining the fact that Kael would have absolutely hated this movie. A complete waste of time and good footage. If Pauline Kael was around now and had letterboxd her rating curve would be way too savage. There is a clip from Deadpool in this movie As of typing, Tarantino’s upcoming film The Movie Critic is rumoured to be about Pauline Kael. While people online are already pushing their fancasts (Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Uma Thurman, Zoe Bell, Lesley Manville, Meryl Streep and other such names have been suggested), I decided to watch a doc about Kael. My perception of her has been shaped more by her many detractors who painted her as this difficult cruel iron lady who dared to trash Citizen Kane and Blade Runner. So I wanted to re-evaluate for myself....The doc portrays Kael as an iconoclast who demystified the prestige of academics and mystique around film criticism in the mid-20th century. Her writing could elevate or sink careers just like that.… This might be the first case of a documentary on someone i admired causing me to admire them less. i always appreciated Kael's contributions to film criticism more than her reviews themselves. I found she could be hard on films for ridiculous reasons and seemingly took contrary viewpoints just to make her reviews stand out from the pack. But after watching this lifeless, meandering doc, it seems like I probably would not want to 'talk' film with her at all. I've met all sorts of people in the film industry that ooh and aah over young people while dismissing older 'professionals'. They want that innovation and youthful vigour over some boring 'has been". In fact, it was a lot of… “…you know there must be others perhaps in this very theatre or in this city… now, in the past or future, who react as you do.”—Trash, Art, and The MoviesPaulines greatest gift was also her biggest shortcoming. She could understand with great acuity