The French romantic thriller “Diva” dashes along with a pellmell gracefulness, and it doesn’t take long to see that the images and visual gags and homages all fit together and reverberate back and forth. It’s a glittering toy of a movie... This one is by a new director, Jean-Jacques Beineix... who understands the pleasures to be had from a picture that doesn’t take itself very seriously. Every shot seems designed to delight the audience. - Pauline Kael, 1982
[more inside]
posted by Trurl
on Sep 16, 2011 -
33 comments
CityLights interview with
Pauline Kael --
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2::
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4 (approx. 40 mins, NSI, 1982) Topics include Cecil B. Demille, Robert Preston, John Boorman’s Zardoz, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, James Bond films, and Lorenzo Semple Jr. More interviews from the National Screen Institute and Brian Linehan
here, including
John Candy,
Eugene Levy,
Christopher Plummer, and
Ian McKellen
posted by puny human
on Jul 8, 2010 -
13 comments
What was it like during the Great Depression? University of Oregon Economist Mark Thoma links to interviews by Studs Terkel which deal with the Great Depression. All interviews in Real Player format. Interviewees:
Gardner C. Means, economic adviser to FDR.
Peggy Terry, a migrant farm worker (my favorite interview).
Virginia Durr, civil rights activist.
Ed Paulsen, dayworker.
Emma Tiller, cook.
Pauline Kael (yes,
that Pauline Kael).
Mary Owsley, farm worker. Much more in the
Hard Times section of the wonderful
Studs Terkel website, which has been featured twice previously on MetaFilter (
1,
2)
[via Obsidian Wings]
posted by Kattullus
on Sep 29, 2008 -
30 comments
Pauline Kael has
died. Love or hate her, she was influential and different, and at the time shaped how we view film.
posted by tiaka
on Sep 3, 2001 -
12 comments
