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I can't believe you watched Audition, Nathaniel. How the hell did that ever happen?
it was the reviews.
i couldn't resist when i kept hearing masterpiece.
but yeah. it freaked me right out of my skin for days.
re:Pauline Kael. She might have not had the same opinions on films as C. Jerry Kutner ( the author of the post over at Bright Lights After Dark) but for sure I've heard of her. Not so much about the above mentioned Mr. Kutner. I'd be very curious to read a review of Last Year at Marienbad by Mr. Kutner and see what Pauline Kael didn't get and he did.
i'm always fascinated by reactions to Pauline Kael, be they pro or con. Great writer but some of her opinions are so maddening -- i am very anti-Kael when it comes to West Side Story for instance ;)
I understand Nate, I am too, that is not the problem. I have a problem with people who just make afirmations without any arguments. I mean, if you're going to say "she didn't het the 60's" give some arguments. Just enumertaing a few film she didn't like it's not an argument .
Pauline Kael - Went and borrowed "For Keeps" a few days ago from the library. Haven't started reading it yet, its kind of intimidating with its 1000+ pages. The only critics whose work I've read before is Ebert and Nathaniel, how's Kael?
Are Ford and McAdams playing love interests? Gross.
Even though I didn't "get" her (as she proved with lambasting some of my favorite films at the time, as we were generations apart), in college, I loved reading old reviews of hers.
I read a Q&A with Pauline Kael at the back of a magazine in late 1997 (Premiere? EW?) I was so HUNGRY, I drank up every word. She apparently didn't know what all the "fuss" was over Demi Moore (I didn't know either and I believe time has vindicated us) and Brad Pitt (Well, "Seven Years in Tibet" just came out and we were only months away from "Meet Joe Black"). It just goes to show that she could be on the mark on one hand and not the best prognosticator on the other.
I will always lament that she retired ONE week before the release of my favorite movie of all time ("The Silence of the Lambs.") [I'm assuming; I remember digging through old periodicals and the last review I could find of hers in TNY was in early Feb '91) How I would have loved to have read that (I'm sure she would have had at least a few positive things to say about it.)
Maybe it was Newsweek (that Q&A). She did say something very cool. "Titanic" had just come out. She said something to the effect of, "how could i begrudge someone for thinking Titanic was the best picture ever made ... that would make me a twit." I don't think she said twit.
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