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Pauline Kael. Pauline Kael ( / keɪl /; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) 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, [2] Kael's opinions often ran contrary to those of her contemporaries. One of the most influential American film ...
Oct 27, 2011 · Her broadcasts caught the attention of Edward Landberg, the owner of the Berkeley Cinema Guild, a pioneering twin-screen art house. He and Kael became a couple, which led to Kael’s writing ...
An affair with the experimental filmmaker James Broughton produced a child, Gina, whom Kael raised by herself, Mildred Pierce–like, heroically supporting them with a number of odd jobs, including running a laundry. Gina’s heart condition required expensive surgery, and Kael ended up enticing Edward Landberg, the owner of a local art-house ...
Oct 27, 2011 · I was also very lucky: I found her ex-husband, Edward Landberg, who was still living in Berkeley. He was her only husband, although she liked to confuse people by telling them she had been married ...
Nov 2, 2011 · But whatever her status (married once, and briefly, to Edward Landberg, with whom she ran the Berkeley Cinema Guild in the 1950s) she wrote with an open heart and a steady sensuality. This is the woman who said to Landberg, Mae West-like, when his hand brushed her breast for the first time by accident “What have you got to lose?”
Aug 16, 2022 · Perhaps no film critic has been as influential, or as controversial, as Pauline Kael (1919-2001). The short documentary Ed and Pauline (2014) explores Kael’s early writing life by focusing on her successful partnership with – and brief marriage to – Edward Landberg (1923-2012), with whom she ran the beloved Berkeley Cinema Guild and Studio in California.
Oct 25, 2011 · He offers an evocative view of her life in Berkeley in the late ’50s, when she continued writing for film journals while running the country’s first twin art movie house with Edward Landberg ...
