Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out. Pauline Kael More Quotes by Pauline Kael More Quotes From Pauline Kael What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable? Pauline Kael getting-older vulnerable way In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Pauline Kael independent business art The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. Pauline Kael movie-making worst mistake I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. Pauline Kael funeral felt knows Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise. Pauline Kael effort purpose art The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up. Pauline Kael couple strong country Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. Pauline Kael noir addiction directors If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too. Pauline Kael car loss feelings Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence. Pauline Kael doors people years What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. Pauline Kael righteous play dirty Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst. Pauline Kael sunday home night In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars. Pauline Kael zest past art Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker. Pauline Kael clown museums art The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography. Pauline Kael lightning fighting art Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny. Pauline Kael small-changes simple children There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. Pauline Kael preference tendencies art At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. Pauline Kael movie real order If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Pauline Kael effort people years I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them. Pauline Kael special sometimes world This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness. Pauline Kael movie actors looks
