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Why would you say she was not very astute about musicals? She loved some and hated others. Like most of us who enjoy musicals enormously. I think she loved seeing great performers singing and dancing on screen. She also loved movie musicals that were more dramatically driven like Oliver! and...

I read it when it was first published in I believe the NY Review of Books. I haven't seen it since then but it must be available somewhere.

I'm a Kael fan as I stated above. I would read her with great anticipation but never would even consider going to the films she raved about. Who has the time when my idea of a great film maker is a Wyler or a David Lean? However anybody read Renata Adler's(The Times should have kept her longer...

I always looked forward to her reviews even after I threw up my hands at the mess American films became first with the disaster of the American new wave(which she championed. Ugh.) and then with the double punch KO of Spielberg and Lucas(the after effects of which even she found deeply...