Pauline Kael

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• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. - Pauline Kael -- Gene Simmons, Ph.D.
• Pauline Kael's dissatisfaction with the auteur theory gives me life. -- m. zavala
• "The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising." - Pauline Kael -- TheBookeepingRedhead
• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. ~ Pauline Kael -- dev.smqueue
• Charity shop find of the day: TWO Pauline Kael collections. That will do. -- Ronan Doyle
• It's interesting how many film critics feel like they have to kill their mother, Pauline Kael. -- Kristy Valenti
• Words that do not appear in Pauline Kael's review of "McCabe and Mrs. Miller": "screenplay," "novel," "McKay," "Naughton," "written." -- Matthew Dessem
• I've just watched The Strain. At the risk of sound like Pauline Kael, it's jolly good. -- Alan Ambrose
• Film buffs... can anyone help me remember a Pauline Kael quote? Deals with the diff between film & television, as she saw it... -- Greg Pak
• I feel like Pauline Kael should be loved by the same people who love ie Hunter S Thompson but there doesn't seem to be much overlap -- Kath Barbadoro
• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ~Pauline Kael -- kybunnies
• Reading Pauline Kael on MASH. "Suicide Is Painless" starts playing at random on from 1000s of songs on my music cloud. May freak out now. -- Franklin Harris
• 'The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. - Pauline Kael -- Boice Esherwood
• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. - Pauline Kael -- Morgan Jenkins
• "The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising." - Pauline Kael -- GameSkinny
• It's difficult to explain what makes a piece of popular art "great," and that this is "particularly difficult with movies."-Pauline Kael -- Jeremy Fultz
• "I never worked with Pauline Kael. Fuck Pauline Kael." guys this ebert documentary is great! -- john lichman
• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. ~ Pauline Kael -- dev.smqueue.2
• Fadeinsoftware: TheRobotard8000 MysteryCr8tve "It is, truly, the Last Tango in Paris of screenwriting software." - Pauline Kael -- Nathyn Masters
• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. Pauline Kael -- Call Centre HUB
• Grant is interested in the qualities of a particular woman her sappy expression, her non sequiturs, the way her voice bobbles. -Pauline Kael -- Leigh
• "At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure." -Pauline Kael (Implications felt today.) -- Wilkine Brutus
• It's amazing to look back at all the movies that Pauline Kael disliked. I quite seriously question her taste in movies. -- The Cinemaniac
• "Where there is a will, there is a way...." - Pauline Kael -- Chelsea A Ellis
• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. Pauline Kael -- My Beer
• According to Pauline Kael, who is the "master of show-business insincerity?" Answer: Bill Murray -- What She Said
• Incidentally, Pauline Kael s GoodFellas review has become notorious for not uncritically praising the movie, but she is entirely on point. -- Sam Adams
• "It's about being a guy, and getting high on being a guy." Pauline Kael, nailing GoodFellas better in one taut phrase than... well, you know -- Tim Robey
• What's pretty staggering is that Kyle Smith's piece looks like prime Pauline Kael next to anything by Rex Reed -- James Dawson
• I think David Lynch is everything that Pauline Kael warned us about 'auteur theory'. -- John Rael
• What I like about Pauline Kael and Armond White is their personal views/feelings come out across their interpretations of specific movies. -- Jed Pressgrove
• Pauline Kael really liked Jim Carrey. -- Sasha Makarewicz
• Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. -Pauline Kael -- Upvents
• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. Pauline Kael -- My Elbow Health
• The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.- Pauline Kael -- Lindy Asimus
• The movies are so rarely great art, that if we can`t appreciate great trash, there is little reason for us to go. Pauline Kael -- Aulia Ahmad
• "So much rapture, so soon. I was suffering from pastoral overload before the credits were finished" -Pauline Kael on Born on the 4th of July -- m milner
• In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. - Pauline Kael -- 10Dayads.com
• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. ~ Pauline Kael -- Stephanie Wilson
• "The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself." -Pauline Kael -- ChiWriMo
• The movies are so rarely great art, that if we can`t appreciate great trash, there is little reason for us to go. Pauline Kael -- :)
• Part of why Establishment Rs are in denial re Trump: to paraphrase fabled Pauline Kael line:no one they know is backing Trump -- Mark Halperin
• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. Pauline Kael -- Mintje Barimbing
• The movies are so rarely great art, that if we can`t appreciate great trash, there is little reason for us to go. Pauline Kael -- Ditt
• Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.~Pauline Kael -- Mike Scherer
• MarkHalperin: Part of why Establishment Rs are in denial re Trump: to paraphrase fabled Pauline Kael line:no one they know is backing Trump -- Charles Timmons
• Pauline Kael's description of Sidney Lumet as "pedestrian: what fools you is that he's a fast pedestrian" could so easily apply to Abrams. -- Edwin Davies
• Pauline Kael quote "In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising." -- Stuart Barr
• I m definitely a fan, but Pauline Kael s insistence on never seeing a movie more than once is insane. -- Jonathan Foster
• "A case where the movie's images are so weak that they don't compete with the book's." Pauline Kael, on "Absolute Beginners," 1986 -- Bowiesongs

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