What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote  | dG1fbVpuWllHUWJDbW8

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00:01Who else is good in the...

00:03Pauline Kael.

00:04Yeah.

00:05She's never said a good thing about me yet.

00:07But you like her?

00:08Dirty old broad.

00:11Since 1968, Pauline Kael has written film criticism for The New Yorker.

00:16I understood her voice, and I related to her voice, even when I disagreed with her.

00:20We grew up reading Pauline Kael.

00:22She seemed to notice everything.

00:24There is a sense that people really don't know what they believe in anymore.

00:28She turned the movie review into this expressive vehicle.

00:33It was as expressive as the short story or the sonnet.

00:37She said, I know that some of my reviews have sent people to bed for two weeks.

00:41Pretty sharp-tottened.

00:43What was referred to as that ghastly woman.

00:45There's very few critics who have the guts to go out there and write an honest review of a bad movie.

00:52She refused to be intimidated.

00:54Any woman in that position is going to collect a lot of the animosity and really craziness that's out there.

01:02There's tremendous hatred of women.

01:04The real hate mail is for men, and it is vicious.

01:08And there are a great many critics who are just trying to get through the day, who know their second rate,

01:14and who are scared of their editors, and scared of their readers, and scared of the movie companies.

01:19If you're good enough, then you bring something to a magazine or a newspaper.

01:23You bring it readers, and so you can hold your round judgment.

01:26If you're not good enough, then you're at the mercy of everybody, and you have to give in.

01:31And so the point would be really to develop more courage.

01:43But she's probably the most qualified critic in the world, because she cares about film and those that are involved in it.

01:50Thanks, Jennifer.

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