$3.13M, R Short, Drama. Drama. 103 min | | Copyright © Fandango. Pauline Kael, I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965. Demy gently mocks romantic movie effects, which he employs more romantically than ever. | Gross: | Gross: Keith Carradine, Cary Grant, | Harvey Keitel, Annielo Mele, | Kirsten Sheridan, Votes: Karen Black, Robert De Niro, Alison Whelan, John Lithgow, A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. Director: Guy Belmont, 10 Movies Everyone Enjoys Except Pauline Kael. Stars: | John Travolta, Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. Warren Beatty, | Crime, Drama, Thriller. There's a slightly crazy daringness about his approach to the mythic. [Bergman] gives us a movie within a movie, but he seems hardly to have made the enclosing movie, and then he throws away the inner one. I Lost It at the Movies is a 1965 book that serves as a compendium of movie reviews written by Pauline Kael, a film critic from The New Yorker, from 1954 to 1965.The book was published prior to Kael's long stint at The New Yorker.As a result, the pieces in the book are culled from radio broadcasts that she did while she was at KPFA, as well as numerous periodicals, including Moviegoer, … Published in 1965, this is Pauline Kael's first book. | The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Vivien Leigh gives one of those rare performances that can truly be said to evoke pity and terror. AP hide caption It has no more moral intelligence than the Clint Eastwood action pictures, yet it's an astonishing piece of work, an uneasy mixture of violent pulp and grandiosity, with an enraptured view of common life -- poetry of the commonplace. For a more extended discussion, see Pauline Kael's book When the Lights Go Down. Ronee Blakley, | Elliott Gould, Comedy, Drama, Romance. This was Renoir's second color film (after "The River"), and his directorial rhythm seems to falter in his work in color, but, given the film's glow and warmth, this defect is trifling. Working with Brando, Bertolucci achieves realism with the terror of actual experience still alive on the screen. Rene Auberjonois, A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau. 126 min $14.74M, Not Rated Drama, Western. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari), Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli). When her first book, I Lost It at the Movies (1965), and her 1968 appointment as a movie critic for The New Yorker brought her national prominence, some people raised eyebrows, others glasses, to her revolutionary style. When Brando improvises within Bertolucci's structure, his full art is realized; his performance is intuitive, rapt, princely. Nadia Sibirskaïa, The camera glides in and out and around the action; it moves as simply and with as much apparent ease as if it were attached to the director's forehead. | Faye Dunaway, Knives Out 2 Adds Four Big Names to Its Cast, and More Movie News, Secret Invasion Adds Directors and More TV and Streaming News, Cruella First Reactions: Emma Stone Is Fabulous in Impeccably Designed, Perfectly Cast Reimagining of A Classic Disney Villain, The Top 10 Horror Franchises By the Numbers, Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, (Photo Credit: Anthony Calvacca/New York Post Archives/Getty Images). Read Movie and TV reviews from Pauline Kael on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics reviews … It's plain and uncondescending in its re-creation of what it means to be a high-school athlete, of what a country dance hall is like, of the necking in cars and movie houses, and of the desolation that follows high-school graduation. | Director: F.A. Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. And I wish it have never been made. Arsenal (1929) The Getaway US (1972): Crime 122 min, Rated PG, Color, Available on videocassette and laserdisc Another bank heist, and the wholesome, clean-cut robber pair (Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw) take forever to make it across the Mexican border with their loot. But it's a triumphant piece of filmmaking-journalism presented with the brio of drama. Robert Harron, Robert Ryan, The cast could hardly be better. 1. Wallace Shawn, Stars: Zeppo Marx, R Crime, Drama, History. ... Movies are on their way into academia when they're turned into a matter of duty: a mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. 113 min Were we supposed to have found it entertaining? "Image" is not remotely an example of hack work - it's an example of a conceptual failure. 22,656 Katharine Hepburn, | The charged erotic atmosphere makes the film something of a hallucination, but Lynch's humor keeps breaking through, too. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969) Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is now considered one of the greatest films of all time. Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale. This stylized movie of ideas is a lean, impressive piece of work. Here are a few films most critics and viewers regard as classics, but which Pauline Kael did not care for. $14.82M, R 69,475 | Gross: | Edmond O'Brien, Votes: $8.20M, R | | It is at once her most uncharacteristic volume of essays and one of her most interesting. Turner, Votes: Donald Sutherland, The most horrifying of all films about juvenile crime. | Gross: Stars: Raymond Chandler's sentimental foolishness is the taking-off place for Robert Altman's heady, whirling sideshow of a movie, set in the early-seventies L.A. of the stoned sensibility. Action, Biography, Crime. Stars: Drama, History. The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. Don't have an account? Amy Robinson, Votes: Mae Marsh, | Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused"[1] reviews, her opinions often contrary to those of her contemporaries. Shelley Duvall, Votes: | Peter Vaughan, Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 5. With so many styles incorporated, it's no wonder that the film has no style, nor does it have anything that might pass for aesthetic structure. $13.75M, R Favorite films of one of the finest critics ever. Nancy Allen, 87 min Quad Cinema in New York has extended its series “Losing It At the Movies: Pauline Kael at 100,” featuring some of the critics most loved (and loathed) films through to June 27. Yolande Beaulieu, Most of the players give impossibly bad performances-they chew up the camera. Director: It's a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya's. Susan George, Stars: Lillian Gish, Pauline Kael reached national attention in the 1960s, first in a brief stint as critic for The New Republic, finally as a longtime fixture at The New Yorker (1968-1991). Warren Beatty, This elegy for the death of the old European aristocracy is one of the true masterpieces of the screen. The African Queen (1951) PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance. Beautiful, sometimes funny, and full of love, it brought a new vision of India to the screen. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Caligari, the most complete essay in the décor of delirium, is one of the most famous films of all time, and it was considered a radical advance in film technique, yet it is rarely imitated -- and you'll know why. After Pauline Kael’s impassioned defense of Bonnie and Clyde, Warren Beatty decided to invite the New Yorker film critic to collaborate on James Toback’s Love & Money. Gene Hackman, R John Frankenheimer Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy, save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison where the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) With Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg created one of the most iconic heroes in cinema history; Indiana Jones. Pauline Kael in her own words. Ernest Borgnine, Stars: 120 min Director: Movies That Pauline Kael Really Liked. Stars: | Gross: Comedy, Drama. This film critic has awarded movies a score of 67% on average. This classic screwball fantasy is like a more restless and visually high-spirited version of the W. C. Fields pictures. | Jerry Mayer, Votes: Documentary on mid-century film critic Pauline Kael, “What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael,” accompanied by seven of her favorites, including five on 35mm: Robert Altman’s essential “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” Renoir’s “The River,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” Scorsese’s “Mean Streets,” De Palma’s “Casualties of War,” as well as Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris,” one of the diminutive doyenne’s great flames (or … | Angela Lansbury, Passed Forgot your password? Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stars: Jasun Horsley is an existential detective, cultural commentator, and author of several books, including The Secret Life of Movies, Seen & Not Seen, Dark … Director: | 119 min An early talkie attempt at glittering theatrical sophistication-and, somehow, in its own terms, it works. 1. | I don't think the movie could have been so forceful or so funny with anyone else. | “Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply,” she observed, “just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.” George Gaynes, Visconti's methods are still partly neorealist, but the scale of the film is huge and operatic, and it loses the intimacy of the best neorealist films, and their breath of life. 135 min Stars: Bruno Ortensi, R Movies cheered up because of their kid audience, but a lofty 19-year-old despair had been Kael’s motor – another sign of existential turmoil. Stars: | There's more horror latent in this notion of the movie audience than in the film itself. | A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. 45,914 Action, Adventure, Western. Dennis Franz, Votes: Pauline Kael’s review of Interiors is full of the same holes, but goes a step further in the way it reverts to her classic brand of ad hominem, faulting Woody Allen for his supposed Jewish (or non-Jewish?) Is it a great movie? The funniest epic vision of America ever to reach the screen. The picture is an enormous many-layered black joke on the hero and the audience, and part of the joke is the use of Charlton Heston as the hero. Pauline Kael November 1964 Issue. Paulette Dubost, This picture is another of [producer] Lew Grade's international blockbuster packages; the deals are worked out in terms of story elements that will sell and of performers with followings in as many markets as possible. 68,336 4,381 | Robert Altman Director: ... Pauline Kael. The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. Nashville (1975) Crime, Drama, Mystery. Tell us what you think about this feature. Pauline Kael (/keɪl/; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. Aparajito (1956) 5. Director: 127 min While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby. Pauline Kael has awarded high ratings to Planet of the Apes (1968) , The Godfather: Part II (1974) , Taxi Driver (1976) , Platoon … 111 min | Stars: | Gross: She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. | 1. It's a bit much, but it works like magic. The Age of Movies isn’t the definitive Pauline Kael collection, that honor must still go to 1996’s For Keeps, the 1300-page doorstopper whose great length allows it to include a long selection from her magnificent book on Citizen Kane. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy One of the most sophisticated slapstick comedies ever made. The dirty reality of death — not suggestions but blood and holes — is necessary. A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. The bits and pieces are choppily assembled, with clumsily overlapped dialogue serving as makeshift bridges. Directors: Stars: But if you want to see what screen glamour used to be, and what, originally, "stars" were, this is perhaps the best example of all time. Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention. Ménilmontant (1926) 38 min | Short, Drama. Mila Parély, M Franco Interlenghi, and the Terms and Policies, Walter Catlett, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. | Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! 78,440 | Gross: Groucho Marx, William Devane, Votes: | 6. … Sam Peckinpah Stars: Director: Comedy, Musical, War. | 24,432 | Gross: Howard Hawks | The film is maddening because it's just good enough to be tantalizingly suggestive of what it might have been. Phoebe Brand, Rinaldo Smordoni, Brian De Palma, Rather than trace recent movie openings on a week-by-week basis, Kael here recalls classics by Ophuls, Renoir, and Bergman and comments on some of the international masterpieces of the early '60s. Stars: Our identification with [Lorre] as a psychopath is so complete it's hard to believe that while appearing before Fritz Lang's cameras in the daytime, he was, at night, acting as a comedian in a farce. | New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre. | There is not a single line in Joseph E. Levine's Harlow, starring Carroll Baker, that sounds as if the speaker felt it or thought it, or could possibly have said it. This is a magical, whirling little film, a triumph of style, even though it runs down to nothing in the last, too quick, too ambiguous shot. But the picture is tame. | Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, 14,471 $2.18M, R | 24,214 112 min 102,125 A second part of this series, “Kael Kael Bang Bang: The Pauline Kael/Clint Eastwood Secret Wars” will appear shortly. | “Losing It at the Moives: Pauline Kael at 100,” which runs from June 7 to June 20, consists of some of the movies that Kael helped elevate into … McKenna, PG | All rights reserved. She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways. 2. | She was considered by many to be the most influential American film critic of the last 50 years. 2. Hal Ashby's début film as a director is one of his best. All About Eve (1950) 4. | | | Biography, Drama. Louis Malle When Pauline Kael reviewed a movie, any movie at all, her writing pulsated with life, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t parsing everything with supreme braininess and reasoning and inquiry. Jim Sheridan Jean Pasquier, PG-13 Director: Sam Peckinpah Irene Papas, Pauline Kael has written 545 movie reviews between 27 Feb 1936 and 01 Jul 2020. Comedy, Drama, War. T.P. Sign up here. Crime, Drama, Thriller. Julie Christie, A small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors. Kael was an early champion of Robert Altman and Brian De Palma, and would trash many of the popular and critically acclaimed films of the day … Sally Kellerman, Votes: Gothic psychologizing melodrama, so preposterously full-blown and straight-faced that it's a juicy entertainment. Clearly, Lerner didn't have the resources to do Farrell's characters and milieu justice, but it's an honorable low-budget effort ... and there are a few passages of daring editing that indicate what the film was aiming for. It's a story of obsessive love, and von Sternberg's version is certainly obsessive. Lawrence of Arabia is the most literate and intelligent and tasteful and the most beautiful of the modem expensive spectacle films. Trash, Art, and the Movies (I) Pauline Kael. 38 min No other film has ever dramatized urban indifference so powerfully; at first, here, it's horrifyingly funny, and then just horrifying. Director: Her ability to skewer an actor or director and her wit, insight, and thorough knowledge of the film business make her by far the most rewarding regular observer of the movie scene. Janet Leigh, Pauline Kael has brought the same fierce passion, independence, and incisiveness to her movie reviews since she took on Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight in 1952. Michael J. Pollard, Vittorio De Sica It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness. Robert Altman It was a prescient thought for the time — in the late sixties and early seventies — until the advent of “Jaws,” by a director she liked, and then by George Lucas, more of a producer than a director, whom she disliked, changed everything about how movies got made and marketed. Charles Ruggles, On 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” (Kael’s career-making review): “The whole point of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ is to rub our noses in (violence), to make us pay our dues for laughing. Stars: | 160 min Tom Skerritt, Club pointed to Kael’s 1969 essay for Harper’s, “Trash, Art, and the Movies,” which Phipps describes as the closest thing Kael wrote to a mission statement. | Director: Harpo Marx, If ever there was a great example of how the best popular movies come out of a merger of commerce and art, "The Godfather" is it. | Gross: $81.60M, R | Director: Director: | Pauline Kael’s I Lost it at the Movies (1965) marked the emergence of a major modern critic: fearless, impassioned, caustically funny, alert to the nuance of the smallest detail. John G. Fox Bellocchio makes it all rhyme. PAULINE KAEL: TOP RATED FILMS. 80 Pauline Kael Klute Jane Fonda in possibly her finest dramatic performance, as Bree, an intelligent, high-bracket call girl, in Alan J. Pakula's murder-melodrama. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael clearly outlines the gifts that made its subject special while offering an engaging overview of her remarkable life and career. [Polanski's film] is textured and smooth and even, with lateral compositions subtly flowing into each other; the sequences are beautifully structured, and the craftsmanship is hypnotic. Smart, funny, and unforgettable, Pauline Kael is the most interesting and influential film critic in America. Costa-Gavras The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 3. 116 min Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. Comedy, Drama, Music. This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films. Martin Scorsese Jean Renoir Chico Marx, $1.75M, Not Rated 197 min 110 min An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. | A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it. Director: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) 4. Posted on May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 by Rollyn Stafford. François Périer, Votes: Robert Altman Drama, Thriller. Dustin Hoffman, 108 min Pauline Kael was a film critic for The New Yorker from 1967 to 1991, as well as the author of several books, including I Lost It at the Movies and For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies. | There's a night-blooming, psychedelic shine to the whole baroque movie. Director: Stars: Read critic reviews. | Arthur Penn Stars: $12.06M, Passed | Stars: | John Cassavetes built this movie on a small conceit -- a love affair between two people who are wildly unsuited to each other -- and it doesn't take root. | Keith Phipps of The A.V. It's far from a dull movie, but it's certainly a very strange one; it's an enshrinement of the mixed-up kid. D.W. Griffith William Holden, Comedy, Family, Romance. Daniel Day-Lewis, David Proval, Laurence Harvey, Alice Adams (1935) 3. 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