The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A L...
Kael, Pauline / Schwartz, Sanford
Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply, " Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a generation, enthralling readers with her gift for capturing, with force and fluency, the essence of an actor's gesture or the full implication of a c...