CityLights interview with Pauline Kael part 1

From: National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI) http://www.nsi-canada.ca

In part one of a four-part interview Brian Linehan talks with Pauline about her book '5001 Nights at the Movies' and her views on director Cecil B. Demille, actor Robert Preston, John Boormans Zardoz, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, James Bond films, and Lorenzo Semple, Jr.

CityLights courtesy of CTV and the Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation.

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• film
• television
• Brian Linehan
• entertainment
• Robert Preston
• John Boorman
• Sean Connery
• Roger Moore
• James Bond
• Lorenzo Semple

[ixat00]

What's with the death metal intro?

[nsicanada]

@ixat00 We love death metal at NSI.

[hansjugger]

... If there is such a thing as a movie sense—and I think there is (I know fruit vendors and cabdrivers who have it and some movie critics who dont)—Spielberg really has it. But he may be so full of it that he doesnt have much else. Theres no sign of the emergence of a new film artist (such as Martin Scorsese) in The Sugarland Express, but it marks the debut of a new-style, new-generation Hollywood hand.

[hansjugger]

"She was a pissy old gripe who got everything wrong. I can't think of a single review of hers worth reading." What an ill-educated, ignorant comment - especially from someone claiming to be a Spielberg fan. I give you above, as a single example of her knowledge and insight, her description of Spielberg in her 1974 review of Sugerland Express. Remember, this is before he has made Jaws, CE3K, Raiders, ET-everything; when Spielberg was an almost complete unknown.

[closetome]

what's wrong with that guy's face/

[JimmBailey]

It would have been a far more interesting landscape in movies today if Pauline Kael was still around. With the amount of truth, passion, and incisive criticism she would  have lashed at most of the Hollywood garbage being green-lighted these days, a lot of these directors and writers would be out of a jobs in a heartbeat.

[knightschwartz]

the host is gay hence his love of feminism.

[TheDsnitz]

@doctornoooo Many people do change their minds on films, and even if they didn't, the point isn't to change their minds but to expand their viewpoints. Many people don't like criticism because they don't really understand what it's about.

[TheDsnitz]

@MrPato61 I don't think armond white is a retard, and kael is far from cynical. She loathed films she saw as misanthropic or despairing and seemed to harbor a real love for humanity.

[mrwinkie8]

Does anyone have recordings of Ms. Kael's appearances on either the Dick Cavett or Tom Snyder shows? If so, please post!

[heftybefty2]

@skinwalkerxxx TRUE