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  1. lark144

    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)

    The most extraordinary thing about "Pride+Prejudice+ Zombies" is it isn't set in Pittsburgh, which according to the "Onion" still doesn't have an evacuation plan in case of space zombies.
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    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)

    Thomas, I know you love Pauline Kael. So do many friends of mine. And that's perfectly ok. However, this really isn't a matter of opinion. Those quotes are from those little paragraphs she wrote for the New Yorker in the "Talk of the Town" section and what one might qualify as "damning with...
  3. lark144

    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)

    Anyone who wrote (& I'm somewhat paraphrasing from memory) "There is more artistry in a single shot of Brain de Palma's "The Fury" than in Alfred Hitchcock's entire body of work" is not a critic I can really agree with or admire, as there seem to be missing a basic understanding of what cinema...
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    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)

    btw, Ms. Hunt seems to be the only cast member who didn't impress Bosley Crowther, as he strongly disapproved her comic performance. Then again, this is the same critic who thought putting Doris Day before the cameras (in "Romance on the High Seas") was a terrible waste of celluloid.
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