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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 often defied the consensus of her contemporaries.
In this week’s issue, I write about Pauline Kael, who was a New Yorker film critic from 1968 to 1991, and whose reviewing helped establish several movies of the late sixties and seventies as...
On 25 July 1982, at London’s National Film Theatre, Pauline Kael invited questions from the audience. In an edited selection from a previously unpublished transcript of the event, she explains why good films make her a better writer.
Jun 5, 2019 · Click through this gallery to read Kael’s most striking quotes on 15 of the films she helped to shape. From her rave of "Bonnie and Clyde" to her dismissal of "Chloe in the Afternoon," here are...
Aug 30, 2019 · Kael wrote “Movies, the Desperate Art” in 1959, the same year the inimitable Elizabeth Hardwick wrote her essay “The Decline of Book Reviewing,” which begged literary critics to write more seriously about craft.
Feb 12, 1971 · Pauline Kael's 1971 essay on “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles, and Herman J. Mankiewicz.
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Oct 14, 2011 · Oct. 14, 2011. THE longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael didn’t just write about movies — she made it seem as if they were worth fighting about. Nearly 20 years after her retirement and...
