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Jun 15, 2024 · Pauline Kael (born June 19, 1919, Petaluma, California, U.S.—died September 3, 2001, Great Barrington, Massachusetts) was a prominent American film critic of the second half of the 20th century. Kael graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1940.
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4 days ago · Mr. Towne was a particular favorite of the prominent movie critic Pauline Kael, who reached the peak of her influence during the New Hollywood’s heyday.
Jun 14, 2024 · 1. I lifted Pauline Kael up off the ground and—holding her in my arms—carried her across a large section of mud at the Cleveland airport. I was chairman of the film society at Oberlin College and I had invited her to speak.
6 hours ago · Pauline Kael, the New Yorker critic, once wrote that Robert Towne had an “ear for unaffected dialogue,” and “a gift for never forcing a point.” He reportedly touched up the scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather where Don Corleone and his son, Michael, whom he never wanted to join his crime family, discuss mob hits and treacheries.
3 days ago · Wings of Desire ( German: Der Himmel über Berlin, pronounced [deːɐ̯ ˈhɪml̩ ˈʔyːbɐ bɛɐ̯ˈliːn] ⓘ; lit. 'The Heaven/Sky over Berlin') is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders.
6 hours ago · Pauline Kael, the New Yorker critic, once wrote that Robert Towne had an “ear for unaffected dialogue,” and “a gift for never forcing a point. ...
1 day ago · No one has come near it, the critic Pauline Kael wrote years ago a judgement that still holds. This summer, timed to the 1954 film's 70th anniversary, a new restoration of Seven Samurai is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12.
