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Published Oct 27 2011 by Salon

Matt: I’ve actually struggled with this myself. That prose style is so engaging — so powerful and seductive in some ways because it’s like a heightened version of everyday conversation with a really smart person — that it does sink into your mind, whether...

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Pauline Kael: Hero or hack? [ Published Oct 27 2011 by Salon ]

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Our current view of ‘age’ is influenced by capitalist driven values and an modern industrial economy. We are a society that desperately avoids dealing with death at an existential level. Nowhere is this more relevant than in Hollywood cinema. ‘The Look’, ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Rhythm Circus ]

Entities: Charlotte Rampling, Angelina Maccarone, Pauline Kael, Paul Auster

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Word and image: my top 10 books on film

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Entities: Christopher Isherwood, Stanley Cavell, Arlene Croce

First Reported May 15 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Judith Crist

Mike Kaplan: Communing With Kubrick

FactsRoom 237 , Rodney Ascher's documentary about the hidden puzzles and bizarre theories fomented by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining , is one of only two American films selected for the Director's Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival this year ... [ Published May 15 2012 by Moviefone ]

Entities: Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris

First Reported May 15 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Louise Fletcher

Scorsese breathes new life into a gangster classic

"It has been wonderful to witness this enlargement of Leone's vision, step by precious step," enthuses Scorsese (whose Film Foundation has supported the restoration alongside Gucci).Oscar-winning actress Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) ... [ Published May 15 2012 by The Independent ]

Entities: Vincent Canby, Louise Fletcher, Arnon Milchan, Pauline Kael, Elizabeth McGovern

First Reported May 01 2012 - Updated May 01 2012 - 1 Documents

Sean Connery

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Diamonds Are Forever starts with a full head of steam, and one expects a luxuriant, mock-sadistic good time. But a few minutes later Sean Connery, as Bond, and a villain are in a tiny elevator, lunging at each other and pounding at each other with excruciatingly ... [ Published May 01 2012 by MI6 ]

Entities: Pauline Kael, Sean Connery, Guy Hamilton

First Reported Apr 17 2012 - Updated Apr 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Library of America

Book Review: The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael edited by Sanford Schwartz

Even more than Roger Ebert is today, Pauline Kael was once the Dean of American movie reviewers. Whether you agreed or disagreed with her, what she wrote about movies could not be easily dismissed. But does her sexiness as cultural critic and prose stylist ... [ Published Apr 17 2012 by Blogcritics.org ]

Entities: Pauline Kael, Library of America, Michelangelo Antonioni, Brian De Palma, Roger Ebert

First Reported Apr 03 2012 - Updated Apr 03 2012 - 1 Documents

Mia Farrow

Mamma Mia!

All smiles: Allen, Farrow, and Previn four years before the affair began. (Photo: Time & Life Pictures/) 1992It was a New York fairy tale turned seriously sordid psychodrama: In 1992, Woody Allen, the nearsighted little Jew from Brooklyn who redefined ... [ Published Apr 03 2012 by New York Magazine ]

Entities: Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, André Previn, Pauline Kael, Manhattan

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