Pauline Kael

1919–2001 · American film critic

Pauline Kael wrote film criticism for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Her energetic and personal reviews often challenged the division between respectable art and the pleasures viewers actually found in popular movies.

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“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize”

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