Topic: Pauline Kael

Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain

New Statesman Magazine, UK - 22 days ago
High above the masses. . Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain Dwight Macdonald NYRB Classics, 294pp, £9.99. . I first read the...

Changing Science of Movie-ology

New York Times - 22 days ago
IN 1958 the writer and independent filmmaker Jonas Mekas contacted Jerry Tallmer, an editor and critic at The Village Voice and asked why the...

Film

San Francisco Chronicle - 89 days ago
0 View Larger Image . Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, by Brian Kellow (Viking; 417 pages; $27.95). At last, a biography of the highly influential...

Pauline Kael: The golden sage of cinema

The Afterword - 107 days ago
From the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, Pauline Kael's movie reviews in The New Yorker were an unprecedented phenomenon of entertainment journalism...

'Pauline Kael' by Brian Kellow: review

San Francisco Chronicle - 109 days ago
0 View Larger Image . This story is exclusive to the Chronicle's Sunday print edition and will not appear on SFGate. com until 3:00 AM on Monday ...

The Sound of Music

Time Out New York - 457 days ago
Go ahead and adjust that star rating accordingly. ? Then again, it might be nice to stand in solidarity with the late critic Pauline Kael, who called the musical ?the sugarcoated lie people seem to want to eat. ? (It's rumored that Kael ...

Tips for writing film reviews

Helium - 465 days ago
To write a good film review, you have to do several things at once. If you are only going to watch the movie once before writing your review, try to take notes as you watch. If you really detested the movie, you ...

Movie reviews: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Helium - 472 days ago
The movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wears its love of hard boiled detective schlock on its sleeve, poking fun at the lumpen vernacular of the hack imitators of the genre's twin giant totems, Chandler and Hammett, and occupying the territory of ...

Ask Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle - 473 days ago
0 . Dear Mick LaSalle: When you do a review, do you judge the movie by what type of movies you like, or do you judge the movie by its merits?. ...

Tips for Writing Arts & Entertainment Reviews

eHow - 555 days ago
Review writing is often the easiest way to break into writing as a freelancer. The cardinal rule of review writing is to never give away the ending while summarizing, and to give your opinion near the last paragraph. Legendary movie critic Pauline ...