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  • To paraphrase Pauline Kael on Barbra Streisand, I'm finding myself falling out of like with Kathy Griffin.

    The Bored and the Gored: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Some highlights you can find on his site include Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer, which he wrote for Film Comment in 1974 and his 2001 essay in Film Comment on his break from Pauline Kael called Pauline Kael 1919 – 2001: My Family Drama.

    Bits & Pieces 2008

  • Some highlights you can find on his site include Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer, which he wrote for Film Comment in 1974 and his 2001 essay in Film Comment on his break from Pauline Kael called Pauline Kael 1919 – 2001: My Family Drama.

    Bits & Pieces 2008

  • Updates, 8 / 1: "As I watched the attractive aristocrats and climbers in his films mope through their empty lives, a part of me wanted to be just like those people: self-absorbed and miserable, perhaps, but also fashionable and sexy," recalls Pauline Kael recognized this contradiction in a famous essay, '

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • To paraphrase Pauline Kael on Barbra Streisand, I'm finding myself falling out of like with Kathy Griffin.

    the latest from teenvogue.com 2009

  • Can you name me one well-known film commentator that’s not a man and doesn’t have the name Pauline Kael?

    Where are the Women Part II: Beyond the Screen | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • Time and Newsweek did cover stories, and it provoked the most lavish praise The New Yorker's Pauline Kael ever heaped on a film, writing that it had altered the face of an art form.

    Last Tango in Paris Actress Maria Schneider Dies at 58 2011

  • Pauline Kael, who reviewed movies for the The New Yorker for many years, was considered by many to be the goddess of film critics.

    Warren Adler: I Found it at the Movies Warren Adler 2011

  • His sometimes over-the-top films could be polarizing, and provoked Pauline Kael to say they "cheapen everything they touch."

    Director Ken Russell Dies at 84 2011

  • Even if Pauline Kael, the influential New Yorker film critic, gushed torrents of praise for him at the time, Brian De Palma never gets enough credit.

    Awakened Identities Steve Dollar 2011

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