Archive for: Pauline Kael

March 22, 2013
By Robert Stanley Martin
Article, Attack of the Literaries, Top Featured
16 comments

Audio: Pauline Kael on the Auteur Theory

A reading of the great film critic’s classic rebuttal.

December 7, 2010
By Noah Berlatsky
Article, Blog, Dyspeptic Ouroboros, Series
31 comments

Mistaking the Movies for the Trees

This essay first appeared on Splice Today. ____________________________ As a first time reader of Pauline Kael, I was surprised to discover that she’s boring as fuck. Okay, to be fair, she’s sometimes slightly less boring than that. Going Steady, her third volume from 1968 and the one which I happened to get my hands on, [...]