![]() ![]() And that's not something I can imagine being said for many of her American contemporaries, mostly because nobody argues about them. 27 - has provided an excuse to recycle all the old arguments about her. The imminent publication of two books devoted to Pauline Kael - "A Life in the Dark," a biography by Brian Kellow, and a collection of reviews and essays called "The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael," both due Oct. Woody Allen, to Peter Bogdanovich, quoted in the introduction to the book This is Orson Welles (1998) She has great passion, terrific wit, wonderful writing style, huge knowledge of film history, but too often what she chooses to extol or fails to see is very surprising." "She has everything that a great critic needs except judgment. Pauline Kael, "Circles and Squares: Joys and Sarris" (1963) "Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply, just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." ![]()
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