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	Pauline Kael Bio
		Prolific, enduring columnist for The New Yorker magazine, Pauline Kael remains the most influential American film critic of the last 50 years.
		Kael settled in Berkeley after graduating, made some short films, and wound up managing movie theaters and broadcasting for the Pacifica radio station.
		When Pauline Kael sits down to review a new film, she is able to sum up pertinent details from the thousands of American and foreign films that preceded it.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/8200/kael.htm (691 words)

	Pauline Kael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kael was born on a chicken farm in Petaluma, California, to Jewish immigrants from Poland[4].
		Kael also wrote philosophical essays on moviegoing, the modern-day Hollywood film industry, the lack of courage on the part of audiences (as she perceived it) to explore lesser-known, more challenging movies (she never used the word "film" to describe movies because she felt the word was too elitist).
		Pauline Kael was portrayed by actress Mary Charlotte Wilcox in an 1982 episode of SCTV.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pauline_Kael (1827 words)

	Pauline Kael
		Pauline Kael had a very good line about how one of the things movie criticism taught you was the way some relationships split apart, finally, when the two of you go to a movie and discover how different you are.
		Pauline (for it was she) was writing up a storm in the dark, with a sharp pencil on the notebook pages.
		Kael deeply admired films such as "Bonnie and Clyde,'' "Weekend,'' "The Godfather,'' "MASH,'' "The Garden of the Finzi Continis,'' and "Mean Streets.'' She likened "Last Tango in Paris'' to "Rite of Spring,'' calling it "a departure from everything we've come to expect at the movies.
	www.tedstrong.com /paulinekael.shtml (1646 words)

	Pauline Kael Archives
		The Anxiety of Influence: Sarah Kerr on Kael & Sontag, in Bookforum.
		Pauline Kael was hard as nails...funny as hell.
		Kael influenced Hollywood and moviegoers for a generation.
	www.rockcritics.com /archives/kael.html (364 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: In Memory and Appreciation of Pauline Kael
		Kael understood that, and regularly chastised her colleagues for their "saphead objectivity." She once said that "you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on the movies." To understand what she meant, re-read her 1972 rave for The Last Tango in Paris.
		Pauline Kael died on September 3, 2001, in her home in western Massachusetts, at the age of 82.
		Pauline Kael and I shared a birthdate, but more significantly, we shared a common passion, a giddy "fusion of art and love," as she put it.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /paulinekael.html (1367 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Finding It at the Movies
		Kael had a second infatuation, though, and it was with a kind of movie that had nothing generic about it, a kind of movie in which the director was the star.
		Kael's followers are known, a little dismissively, as "the Paulettes." The usual complaints about them are that they imitate mindlessly Kael's enthusiasm for the cheap-thrill element of popular culture, and that they are all parrots of her journalistic mannerisms.
		Pauline Kael understood these things, and she consciously built her practice as a reviewer around them; and that is why she is a supremely important figure even for writers who, although they grew up reading everything she wrote, always strived, in their own work, never to sound like Pauline Kael.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/1959 (5710 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Pauline Kael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kael, who died on September 3rd at the age of eighty-two, threw herself into extreme opinions with unmatched confidence and passion; she wrote in a white heat, like Jackson Pollack splattering a canvas, or Jean-Luc Godard filling his films with quotes from literature.
		Kael was born in California and studied philosophy at Berkeley.
		Kael has her own large warehouse in my mind, and endless other property in the minds of others.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/141/pauline-kael.html (726 words)

	BBC News \| FILM \| Film critic Pauline Kael dies
		Kael - whose passionate and uncompromising reviews in The New Yorker magazine were esteemed by fans and film-makers alike - died on Monday at her home in Barrington, Massachusetts.
		Kael's father was a movie fan and she in turn became an avid reader and movie enthusiast.
		Kael's witty, often slangy, language immediately struck a chord among readers and was considered by many as a breath of fresh air.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1524479.stm (814 words)

	Amazon.ca: Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael: Books: Francis Davis,Pauline Kael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kael mentions several wonderful films that have all but fallen into obscurity, all because most critics are afraid to take a stand and swim upstream against the tide of their colleagues.
		Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael by Francis Davis (Contributing Editor of Atlantic Monthly magazine) is an absorbingly written memory of the wit, wisdom, and wonder of a truly great actress, and the memorable chat she had with author Francis Davis shortly before her unfortunate death.
		Pauline Kael is not someone you feel lightly about - you either love her or hate her (there's a website called die-critics-die that gets my blood boiling...).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0306811928 (2406 words)

	CNN.com - Pauline Kael: 1919-2001 - September 4, 2001
		In it, he told Kael that he always enjoyed her film criticism, but that he felt her new book was something of an incomplete, slapped-together disappointment.
		Kael, whose witty admonitions during her tenure at The New Yorker drew an especially obsessive readership, had standards to maintain.
		For two movie-obsessed college students, having Pauline Kael call you to engage in such a conversation was tantamount to Babe Ruth phoning to argue balls and strikes.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/04/kael.appreciation/index.html (425 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Pauline Kael
		Kael was remembering her own long years of poverty and frustration, trying to do something “creative” — working on the fringes of experimental film and writing plays that were never produced — efforts that never paid off and in which she took no pride.
		Kael’s discussion of the film’s violence is quite acute, and she makes the nice distinction that a film that is a work of art (though “flawed”) can use violence effectively, while a cheap, fraudulent film like The Dirty Dozen can use violence offensively (though neither should be banned).
		Kael goes too far, however, in denying the charge that the film romanticizes crime and violence when she claims that the Barrow gang is “horrified by [violence] and ultimately destroyed by it.” After the shootout in Joplin, which resulted in the death of three cops, the gang reads its press notices with delight.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /46/kael.htm (4649 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Pauline Kael
		Kael, who died Monday, Sept. 3, at the age of 82, changed all that with her prose.
		Still, Kael only needed one shot at a movie, perhaps because she was raised in an era when films could be such rare birds.
		Kael was, as she wrote of Farber, an education even when tearing up a film you like.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.06.01/kael-0136.html (1552 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael" by Francis Davis
		Kael recalls him as taking "very dowdy attitudes towards what would appear in the magazine, but he himself was very alive and alert to all sorts of things.
		Kael's interest in "Deep Throat" had nothing to do with the quality of the film and everything to do with her interest in eroticism in the movies, a subject she was allowed to touch on only occasionally in the New Yorker.
		Exciting as the possibility of Kael writing on other areas of pop culture may be, the simplest answer to why she never attempted to "branch off" was that all her critical itches were scratched by movies.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/11/20/kael (1116 words)

	Kael, Pauline. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Petaluma, Calif. Possessed of an extensive knowledge of the technical aspects of moviemaking and a feisty, pop-inflected style, Kael was noted for her provocative, passionate, and tough-minded film criticism.
		An extremely influential figure, she first attracted attention for her attack on the auteur theory, and later went on to champion the work of such filmmakers as Francis Coppola, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg.
		Kael’s books, mostly collections of reviews and essays, include I Lost It at the Movies (1965), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968), The Citizen Kane Book (1971), Deeper into Movies (1973), 5001 Nights at the Movies (1982), Taking It All In (1984), Movie Love (1991), and For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies (1994).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ka/Kael-Pau.html (245 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pauline Kael, unparalleled among movie critics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Pauline Kael, the influential film critic whose New Yorker reviews struck fear into the hearts of filmmakers and spawned many imitators, died Monday at 82.
		Kael's battles with rival critic Andrew Sarris over the auteur theory, which holds that the director is the ultimate creative force behind a movie, became the stuff of journalistic legend.
		When Kael loved a movie that others disliked, her enthusiasm was boundless.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/2001-09-04-pauline-kael.htm (486 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| A gift for effrontery
		Kael has been providing revelation, scorn, ecstasy and H-E-L-P for the movies for so long, it's hard to believe that she was in her 40s when she loosed these early salvos.
		Born in Petaluma, Calif., on June 19, 1919, she is the daughter of Polish immigrants who moved to San Francisco during the Depression; Kael attended UC-Berkeley as a philosophy major.
		Kael was hired at the New Yorker by editor William Shawn in 1967.
	www.salon.com /bc/1999/02/09bc.html (473 words)

	Pauline Kael - A Tribute
		Born in California, Pauline Kael studied philosophy, literature and the arts at Berkeley and briefly considered a career as a playwright.
		In her early essays as a critic, Kael shared her pleasure in filmmakers as diverse as Jean-Luc Godard, Kon Ichikawa, and François Truffaut as well as assailing the current critical tastemakers such as the New York critic Bosley Crowther.
		Kael wrote at a sprint, loved the quick turnaround of weekly reviewing and famously claimed she never saw a film a second time.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/17/kael.html (1669 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Pauline Kael Revisited
		Double full disclosure: Pauline Kael once called me a "well known author of pop drivel" and the writer of the article I am about to link is an old friend who said kind words about me in a book of his about American Jews (now, alas, out of print).
		Right, but when Pauline Kael was wrong, her writing was a lot better than this drivel.
		Pauline Kael was one of the better film reviewers of our time.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2004/08/pauline_kael_re.php (6259 words)

	Amazon.com: I Lost it at the Movies: Books: Pauline Kael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kael is fun to read, even if you haven't seen the movie she is talking about.
		Pauline Kael was a prophet of the times: she knew that people would eventually be addicted to the movies.
		Kael grasped, and armed with her stylish wit and whip, she rallied on to the cultural battlefronts of what would turn out to be our multi-media age.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0714529753?v=glance (1134 words)

	Pauline Kael - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Most readers agree Pauline Kael wasn't a homophobe -- but dissenters are heard from.
		The critic: Pauline Kael, R.I.P. She was hard as nails.
		Pauline Kael picks five favorite novels that have something to do with the movies.
	dir.salon.com /topics/pauline_kael (347 words)

	Pauline Kael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In it, a bescarfed, blandly-smiling Kael cuddles with a cute-faced pooch.
		Kael, the celebrated film critic who died on September 3 at age 82, was a fierce opponent of fake gentility and treacly sentiment in all its guises.
		Kael was most influential during the years she wrote for The New Yorker (1968-1991).
	www.goodbyemag.com /jul01/kael.html (839 words)

	NPR - All Things Considered: Pauline Kael
		Kael, who had Parkinson's disease, was 82 years old when she died.
		Kael was a movie critic for The New Yorker from 1967 to 1991.
		Kael was a passionate fan of films like The Godfather, Bonnie & Clyde and Mean Streets, and called Last Tango in Paris possibly the most liberating movie ever made.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2001/sep/kael/010904.kael.html (496 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| The critic: Pauline Kael, R.I.P.
		Within the next few days and weeks, there will be plenty of people with plenty to say about Pauline Kael, who made enemies and won lifelong fans with her movie criticism in the New Yorker.
		Pauline said she didn't much care for it; Streisand told her it had been written by her ex.
		When he bent down to speak with her, she clutched his hands in hers (they were small, vital and birdlike); she'd recommended a massage therapist to him and she wanted to know how his first session had gone.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/2001/09/03/pauline_kael/index.html (1137 words)

	Pauline Kael \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		Lord knows, my own critical worldview was deeply affected by reading Kael during my adolescence: She spoke in a language that was intuitive to my moviegoing experience, far removed from the stodgy pronouncements of critics like the New York Times' Bosley Crowther.
		She turned me on to genres and individual films I might have passed by; even late in her career, she was perceptive enough to rescue the great little 1984 thriller ''The Stepfather'' out of the trash-flick bargain bin.
		Kael's picks and pans stood just far enough out in left field to remind you of that fact -- and to make you stretch your brain to figure out where YOU stood.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/commentary/0,6115,173683~1~0~howpaulinekaelchanged,00.html (757 words)

	Storefront Demme - PAULINE KAEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Known for her iconoclastic views (she was fired from McCall's after condemning The Sound of Music), Kael regularly endorsed films that were dismissed by other prominent critics (ie.
		Many of these films are now considered classics and, in some cases, Kael's reviews paved the way for this perception.
		She is often credited with establishing his reputation, among film critics, filmgoers, and even within the film industry, itself.
	www.storefrontdemme.com /paulinekael.html (239 words)

	Pauline Kael
		Pauline Kael - Kael, Pauline, 1919–2001, American film critic, b.
		Pauline Kael - Pauline Kael film critic Born: 6/19/1919 Birthplace: Petaluma, Calif. famously influential movie...
		Dancer in the Darkness: Passionate in her devotion to the pleasures of cinema, Pauline Kael (1919-2001) transformed movie reviewing.(Transition)(Arts......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0884397.html (220 words)

	Video Lists - VID Lists - Vidiots Video
		Pauline Kael R.I.P. Pauline Kael is certainly one of the most influential serious film critics and perhaps one of the liveliest of all arts critics.
		She loved actors, challenged even her favorite directors, hated pretentiousness, and in her tenure at the New Yorker wrote in a voice that one critic said "is impossible to get out of your head." Kael died in September of 2001, several years after retiring from full-time reviewing.
		Her love of movies, though, according to those close to her, was with her to the end.
	www.vidiotsvideo.com /vidlists.html (1310 words)

	Why Pauline Kael Dead is Still Better than Most Critics Alive
		And if you read the myriad reports on her death, it's easy to recognize Kael's great strengths: She loved movies; she wasn't a snob or pretentious; she was a vigorous soldier on the frontlines of the great movie debates.
		There was a point in the history of the movies when audiences really did listen to film critics, when a writer such as Pauline Kael could affect the fate of Nashville, when a battle over the importance of Bonnie and Clyde between Bosley Crowther and Kael really had some resonance.
		An artist needs an educated eye, and Kael's column was the place directors and writers went to learn what impression they made, if the film worked, why or why not.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/old_issues/0052_why_pauline_kael_dead_still_better_than_most_critics_alive.html (1433 words)

	Steven Rubio's Online Life: no one i know reads pauline kael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It should come as no surprise to anyone who visits this blog that Pauline Kael was and is a great influence on my writing...
		As I noted in a post a month after the one we're commenting on here, Craig Seligman, a friend of Kael's in her later years, claimed in an email to me that Kael herself told him she never said it.
		This story became garbled in later years, and is now frequently told as if the "Nobody I knew voted for him" statement was an expression of her disbelief at his re-election; it is often trotted out as an example of New York elites being out of touch.
	begonias.typepad.com /srubio/2004/11/no_one_i_know_r.html (1339 words)

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