http://www.metafilter.com/tags/kael Posts tagged with 'kael' at MetaFilter. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:37:08 -0800 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:37:08 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/82773/Michelangelo%2DAntonionis%2DZabriskie%2DPoint Pauline Kael called it "a huge, jerry-built, crumbling ruin of a movie". Roger Ebert called it "such a silly and stupid movie... our immediate reaction is pity". Few directors of <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/63415/Michelangelo-Antonioni-dies">Michelangelo Antonioni</a>'s stature have followed a film as acclaimed as <em>Blowup</em> (1966) with one as reviled as <a href="http://www.popcultureaddict.com/movies/zabriskiepoint.htm"><em>Zabriskie</em></a> <a href="http://www.phinnweb.org/links/cinema/directors/antonioni/zabriskie/"><em>Point</em></a> (1970). While what merit the film has is found chiefly, if not solely, in Antonioni's characteristically striking visuals - particularly its concluding <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsW6ta4X8o">explosion sequence</a> set to Pink Floyd's "Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up" <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/21776/Implosions-and-the-Pleasure-of-Destruction">previously</a>)</small> - the movie has been YouTubed in its entirety <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4EFDEDEBBBF87290&search_query=Zabriskie+Point">here</a>. <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/70384/Best-Story-Ever#2064593">related</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82773 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:37:08 -0800 antonioni art cinema directors ebert film italian kael mgm movies pinkfloyd zabriskiepoint Joe Beese http://www.metafilter.com/9842/ Pauline Kael has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/News/09/03/kael.obit.ap/index.html">died</a>. Love or hate her, she was influential and different, and at the time shaped how we view film. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.9842 Mon, 03 Sep 2001 18:01:31 -0800 brokenlink kael paulinekael tiaka