This made my day to find a new post/interview on Pauline Kael. Thank you! Now I hope I can retrieve a recording of her 1987 sold-out appearance in San Francisco which she returned my letter on, granting me permission to get a recording of. That was online for some time, but removed and gifted to her alma mater, UC Berkeley, at Bancroft Library. The audio from that would be great to have on RUclips, at her spontaneous, humorous best.
Kudos to Pauline for spotlighting the wonderful, soulful, sexy Amazon force of nature that is Joanna Cassidy. she should have been recognized by the Academy Awards for Under Fire. she's also wonderful on Six Feet Under! (dumb show with good actors)
"alot of crazy things have happened in the country and movie directors don't know what to make movies about anymore so they fall back on old movies" sums up American movies of the past 40 years pretty succinctly
Not a humble woman, exactly, but maybe she wouldn’t be Kael if she were. She happened to also be a great writer, as good as any film critic, and I don’t think she could be bought. Good speaker, too, though she mispronounced Scorsese. Confederacy of Dunces with John Candy! Wow. Wish it had happened!
She did, in fact, pronounce "Scorsese" correctly. It's the same way that I say it. An "e" in Italian is never an "ay" sound, nor is "e" ever an "ee" sound. I'm studying Italian, so I understand the Italian vowel sounds. Her pronunciation of "Coppola," on the other hand...
Gandhi is pap, plain and simple. not pap the way a Ron Howard film is pap, utterly flavorless and pathetic, no, just palatable, cartoonish, simplistic, childish pablum. its not an absolutely terrible film, but even John Simon seemed to take it (a little bit) more seriously than it merits. one key to how pompously irrelevant, and just not really legitimate or adult a filmmaker Attenborough is, if i recall correctly, is how he stages the Jallianwala Bagh massacre: the soldiers might as well be firing into sofas, not innocent people, for all the emotion, horror, involvement, what-have-you Attenborough is able to evoke with it, or rather not evoke.
This is so wonderful. Thank you for putting this on RUclips.
This made my day to find a new post/interview on Pauline Kael. Thank you! Now I hope I can retrieve a recording of her 1987 sold-out appearance in San Francisco which she returned my letter on, granting me permission to get a recording of. That was online for some time, but removed and gifted to her alma mater, UC Berkeley, at Bancroft Library. The audio from that would be great to have on RUclips, at her spontaneous, humorous best.
I'd love to hear this.
Please upload it online that would be extraordinary!!
Thank you so much for posting this.
Kudos to Pauline for spotlighting the wonderful, soulful, sexy Amazon force of nature that is Joanna Cassidy. she should have been recognized by the Academy Awards for Under Fire. she's also wonderful on Six Feet Under! (dumb show with good actors)
"alot of crazy things have happened in the country and movie directors don't know what to make movies about anymore so they fall back on old movies" sums up American movies of the past 40 years pretty succinctly
Loved it
Not a humble woman, exactly, but maybe she wouldn’t be Kael if she were. She happened to also be a great writer, as good as any film critic, and I don’t think she could be bought. Good speaker, too, though she mispronounced Scorsese.
Confederacy of Dunces with John Candy! Wow. Wish it had happened!
She did, in fact, pronounce "Scorsese" correctly. It's the same way that I say it. An "e" in Italian is never an "ay" sound, nor is "e" ever an "ee" sound. I'm studying Italian, so I understand the Italian vowel sounds.
Her pronunciation of "Coppola," on the other hand...
She has a wonderful mind, but her tastes are Decadent.
Gandhi is pap, plain and simple. not pap the way a Ron Howard film is pap, utterly flavorless and pathetic, no, just palatable, cartoonish, simplistic, childish pablum. its not an absolutely terrible film, but even John Simon seemed to take it (a little bit) more seriously than it merits. one key to how pompously irrelevant, and just not really legitimate or adult a filmmaker Attenborough is, if i recall correctly, is how he stages the Jallianwala Bagh massacre: the soldiers might as well be firing into sofas, not innocent people, for all the emotion, horror, involvement, what-have-you Attenborough is able to evoke with it, or rather not evoke.