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Movie Blog: Q&A With ‘Frances Ha’ Director Noah Baumbach
Here is a transcription of our conversation: Eric Henderson: I loved this movie in a way that reminded me of when Pauline Kael wrote about feeling almost protective over the movie Casualties of War. Noah Baumbach: To use that word, I think I felt “protective” from WCCO Read more »
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Robert Redford, Golden Boy
could he act other than himself? And isn’t that the very hallmark of a star? David Thomson called him a waste, while Pauline Kael understood that his golden diffidence was part of his allure, what drew us back to watch him over and over again. He never gave from The Hairpin Read more »
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Ranked: The Fast and the Furious Movies, from Best to Worst
make no mistake, my riding-or-dying friends: There are differences between the six movies in this lucrative franchise. As Pauline Kael undoubtedly would have said if shed lived to see Dominic Toretto speeding through Rio with a bank vault attached to his Dodge from Esquire Read more »
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Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov
Claiborne, some people still felt that writing about kitchens and restaurants wasn’t man’s work. Mr. Sokolov ran into Pauline Kael, the film critic at The New Yorker, shortly after taking the job. She stared at him over a bagel, he reports in his new memoir, from The New York Times Read more »
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Author, auteur, rationalist, fabulist: an essay on Satyajit Ray
and movies from this country. In a perceptive 1962 essay about a later Ray film Devi (The Goddess), the American critic Pauline Kael noted that some early Western reviewers had mistakenly believed Ray was a “primitive” artist and that Apu’s progress over the from Jabberwock Read more »
