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What a great mind she had. I thoroughly enjoy her.

What a consummate snob...cruel beyond any definition of political correctness..almost a parody of a self conscious intellectual... AND one of the funniest critics who ever lived... His collection of pieces on fifties sixties seventies MOVIES INTO FILM...STILL reduces me to helpless FITS of laughter..when I was a kid...until now

9:20 she's offended at being called impressionistic, then at 20:18 she says she would rather write about her total impression... Then in the next segment, she names filmmakers she refuses to see. Such a phony and inconsistent intellectual...

I was there to it was the best time to be alive

I was there!

For those who thought Siskel & Ebert were elitist snobs, welcome to Pauline Kael.

I was there too! Love seeing this video. Thanks for sharing.

He was great on the odd couple tv show.

One can’t deny how sharp she was but I’ve always been a little turned off by how thin-skinned she could be with even relatively criticism of her work.

One can’t deny how sharp she was but I’ve always been a little turned off by how thin-skinned she could be with even relatively criticism of her work. Even in this interview she’s ready to pounce on the questioner for his slightly infelicitous phrasing of one question rather than giving him the benefit of the doubt. The incongruity between some of the rather brilliant venom in her writing and the frequent brittleness/defensiveness of her responses to her critics has always been disappointing to me.

One can’t deny how sharp she was but I’ve always been a little turned off by how thin-skinned she could be with even relatively criticism of her work. Even in this interview she’s ready to pounce on the questioner for his slightly infelicitous phrasing of one question rather than giving him the benefit of the doubt. The incongruity between some of the rather brilliant venom in her writing and the frequent brittleness/defensiveness of her responses to her critics has always been disappointing to me.

To show what kind of "free thinker" or "outsider" she really was : In one of her books that lists alphabetical reviews -- the "J" section lists Fellini's 1966 masterpiece "Juliet of the Spirits" . She gives this movie a trite SWIPE " A woman whose husband is cheating on her-- has fantasies that look like they take place on the sets of old MGM musicals". The end ! LOL. What? And on the opposite page the 1980 BOMB "comedy" "Just Tell me What You Want" w/ Alan King and Natalie Wood -- Ms. Kael goes ON and ON and ON with like 200 words or more ; digging DEEP into this movie that A) Looks AWFUL and B) Siskel & Ebert just tore apart on their TV show!. LOL Hilarious . If you've never seen "Juliet of the Spirits" give it a Netflix look if you can. Also you can see the Sneak Previews review of "Just Tell Me What You Want" here on UA-cam to see how horrible it looks ! Kael's reviews are uneven but wildly engrossing - and watch out when she HATES a movie ( see her review of Diana Ross' 1976 "Mahogany". LOL)

I love her voice

Erudite, bone-scrapingly honest, disarmingly articulate and refreshingly passionate- a true pioneer in her field. If only we had more in-depth, articulate discussions like this today. Alas, I suspect in our time of Tik-Tok and ever-wiltering attention spans, such dialogue would be subject to three second punchlines and a random online influencer to interpret deep dialogue in the shallowest of ways. Influencers and followers are one and the same, I'm afraid. Todays platforms encourage impatient scrolling and condensed, myopic thinking. We have truly lost the Art of spontaneity, patience and critical self-reflection. Tarantino was right when he said he never intended to make a movie for an at home streaming platform where such consumption is divorced from the collective Cinematic experience. Sadly, we have few directors challenging this trend. Movies that are made via a menu of algorithms and consumed with a twitter-like appetite will simply be commercial vehicles: all car and no engine. As it stands, ifluencers and streaming services are closing the curtain on cinema and opening up an endless sushi train of fast and facile entrees. I'ts not that I'm greedy; I just want the main course. Long live Cinema.

Sad to say. I was there. I drank almost a gallon of beer before I went in. I woke up on the grass in the middle of Fleetwood Mac. Lol thank God I’ve been sober for 30 years.

an artist never tries to please others. They only speak their truth, and very few are able to digest it.

Got here thanks to Tarantino's upcoming movie 👍

Here before this blows up because of Tarantino's final movie.

dude was a hater but he was funny

I was in the nosebleed seats, top of the third deck....

Pauline Kael started losing it in the late '60's, when she named Barbra Streisand the Best Actress of the Year for "Hello, Dolly!" Jesus!

A CRITIC IS SOMEONE WHO LACKS THE TALENT OF THE CRITICIZED ARTISTS

it's amazing to think that this guy DID, actually, go a little soft in his last years. his writing in the last published collection of his work that i know, from 1980-2001, is less venomous but also spottier than earlier collections. and on his blog, he actually indicated that he LIKED the Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge! !!! oh my god!!! even he did occasionally like things that were shit haha, though i don't know of any other examples as egregious to me personally as Moulin fu*king Rouge. it's also amusing to think of him probably being tolerant of Basic Instinct, although you can't quite tell from his rather non-committal review, which is basically just a long plot summary.

With the accretion of time, Simon's criticism seems even more perceptive.

That woman is really CRAZY!!!

Wow I was there and I remember that black dress!

Pauline Kael (19 de junio de 1919 - 3 de septiembre de 2001) fue una crítica de cine estadounidense, que escribió para la revista The New Yorker entre 1968 y 1991. Era conocida por sus reseñas "ingeniosas, mordaces, muy obstinadas y fuertemente enfocadas";[1]​ sus opiniones a menudo eran contrarias a las de sus contemporáneos. Fue una de las críticas de cine más influyentes de su época.

I was there!!!!

Right from the get go she's like a prophet

Programmatic! Yes, this is still the case.

She almost made that man cry 😂

Kael’s offhand dismissal of The Sting made me gasp out loud. George Roy Hill’s The Sting is a masterpiece. Newman had wit, charm, and the mature wisdom at that point in his career to underplay his leading role, and let the ensemble plot do its magic. Redford is earnest in an appealing way, playing a small-time con man as a kind of male ingenue. And there’s a host of great character actors, each of which is necessary to the complex plot machinery. In fact, the intricate plot is one of the most ingenious in cinema history, which could have been confusing but for Hill’s masterful direction and the absolute perfection of the screenplay. The Sting manages to keep you in suspense right up to the end as to just who is conning who, yet in a way that’s never annoying or even confusing. Plus a great period look (Chicago in the 30s) and a score that was 100% authentic Scott Joplin ragtime material. I saw it again recently after 45 years (!) and it was just as great as I thought the first time. Better, in fact. This time I could marvel at how all the pieces come together, yet without losing the magic of the whole. For Kael to just dismiss The Sting and its director out of hand, is a critical blunder for which there is no excuse, except Kael’s own limited sensibility as a human being. If you can’t get interested in the ingenuity of a charming, skillful, and highly disciplined team of men, who use the character flaws of an egomaniac against him, to relieve him of his ill-gotten gains, I feel sorry for you. Maybe a film which is a kind of extended chess game played between men, with no real place for women or naturalistic relationships, held no interest for her, IDK. Maybe plot itself meant little to her. But it should have. Excellence is excellence. Being 1000% certain of your opinions, as Kael always was, (and which created her notoriety), is no virtue, if the verdict of history is that (some of) your most famous opinions were 1000% WRONG.

What a blessing that this interview is available on UA-cam Pauline kael wasn't original that's what every Rider should be.

The host was Greg Jackson. This was one of the truly great shows of the much-missed CBS Cable, from the early 1980s.

Host?

I read his stuff when I was young. Apart ftom bring flat out nasty, he was negative about people who have since become icons-Sondheim, Pinter, etc. He was a nasty shit and now he’s irrelevant.

5:06...

While many people might have disagreed with his criticism in 1981, it seems spot on in 2021. He saw in 1981 the evolution of where we are now. Like him or hate him, he's worth reading and hearing out.

28 minutes gone already? That flew by ... A consistently engaging woman!

Awesome concert was there with husband (to be) had a blast.

Why is no one mentioning Meryl Streep? Kael hated Streep. Or, rather, hated the way she acted.

be careful of what you hear here, this person is one of the most notorious liar and plagiarist.

This woman is a hypocrite, telling orson welles didn't wrote a single letter on kane but she stole howard suber's research. A pretentious and hateful critic

She wrote in a fever and she made me laugh. Example (About Ida Lupino in "The Light That Failed") : "It was her big entry in the Bette Davis slut sweepstakes"....LOL

If "Signature" was revived then it would feature more celebrity guests (Jim Parsons, Tina Fey, Harland Williams, etc....).

Italy (1940-70s) is the greatest country for movies, per capita (per film).. US would be #2, followed by France, Japan, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia.

She s just a frustrated and underfucked cold piece of shit of artistic and intelectual jalousy all her fucking sterilized life. Her obsession to diminuate the films of Orson Welles and Kubrick prove it. She will never have talent. Shame on her.

what month did this aire?

I was so happy when Mort Sahl took this man down on Dick Cavett

What has been done to this video? It used to have *them* singing. Fix it please. I was there!