I Lost It at the Movies is a 1965 book that serves as a compendium of movie reviews written by Pauline Kael, a film critic from The New Yorker, from 1954 to 1965.The book was published prior to Kael's long stint at The New Yorker.As a result, the pieces in the book are culled from radio broadcasts that she did while she was at KPFA, as well as numerous periodicals, including Moviegoer, … Club pointed to Kael’s 1969 essay for Harper’s, “Trash, Art, and the Movies,” which Phipps describes as the closest thing Kael wrote to a mission statement. François Périer, Votes: This is a magical, whirling little film, a triumph of style, even though it runs down to nothing in the last, too quick, too ambiguous shot. Director: But if you want to see what screen glamour used to be, and what, originally, "stars" were, this is perhaps the best example of all time. Read critic reviews. Crime, Drama, Mystery. William Devane, Votes: Director: Turner, Votes: Katharine Hepburn, Phoebe Brand, Short, Drama. This stylized movie of ideas is a lean, impressive piece of work. Gene Hackman, R It's plain and uncondescending in its re-creation of what it means to be a high-school athlete, of what a country dance hall is like, of the necking in cars and movie houses, and of the desolation that follows high-school graduation. Nadia Sibirskaïa, Is it a great movie? | No other film has ever dramatized urban indifference so powerfully; at first, here, it's horrifyingly funny, and then just horrifying. | Jerry Mayer, Votes: PAULINE KAEL: TOP RATED FILMS. Yves Montand, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969) Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is now considered one of the greatest films of all time. After Pauline Kael’s impassioned defense of Bonnie and Clyde, Warren Beatty decided to invite the New Yorker film critic to collaborate on James Toback’s Love & Money. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy Chico Marx, | Raymond Chandler's sentimental foolishness is the taking-off place for Robert Altman's heady, whirling sideshow of a movie, set in the early-seventies L.A. of the stoned sensibility. | It's a bit much, but it works like magic. Posted on May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 by Rollyn Stafford. | Dimitri Kirsanoff Director: Lillian Gish, A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. It has no more moral intelligence than the Clint Eastwood action pictures, yet it's an astonishing piece of work, an uneasy mixture of violent pulp and grandiosity, with an enraptured view of common life -- poetry of the commonplace. 1. While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby. Ernest Borgnine, | Director: Trash, Art, and the Movies (I) Pauline Kael. | Pauline Kael was a film critic for The New Yorker from 1967 to 1991, as well as the author of several books, including I Lost It at the Movies and For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 3. 68,336 | Gross: An early talkie attempt at glittering theatrical sophistication-and, somehow, in its own terms, it works. Her ability to skewer an actor or director and her wit, insight, and thorough knowledge of the film business make her by far the most rewarding regular observer of the movie scene. Copyright © Fandango. “Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply,” she observed, “just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.” What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael clearly outlines the gifts that made its subject special while offering an engaging overview of her remarkable life and career. When Pauline Kael reviewed a movie, any movie at all, her writing pulsated with life, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t parsing everything with supreme braininess and reasoning and inquiry. Sam Peckinpah Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways. Jean Pasquier, PG-13 It was a prescient thought for the time — in the late sixties and early seventies — until the advent of “Jaws,” by a director she liked, and then by George Lucas, more of a producer than a director, whom she disliked, changed everything about how movies got made and marketed. 119 min Drama, History. Aparajito (1956) 5. Stars: 87 min Guy Belmont, This picture is another of [producer] Lew Grade's international blockbuster packages; the deals are worked out in terms of story elements that will sell and of performers with followings in as many markets as possible. Jasun Horsley is an existential detective, cultural commentator, and author of several books, including The Secret Life of Movies, Seen & Not Seen, Dark … She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. The most horrifying of all films about juvenile crime. Pauline Kael’s review of Interiors is full of the same holes, but goes a step further in the way it reverts to her classic brand of ad hominem, faulting Woody Allen for his supposed Jewish (or non-Jewish?) Howard Hawks 111 min Tom Skerritt, McKenna, PG Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! 24,214 Comedy, Drama, Romance. Paulette Dubost, The picture is an enormous many-layered black joke on the hero and the audience, and part of the joke is the use of Charlton Heston as the hero. Mila Parély, M Donald Sutherland, | Gross: 126 min Director: Stars: An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. I don't think so. Sally Kellerman, Votes: Stars: | Robert De Niro, 2. Quad Cinema in New York has extended its series “Losing It At the Movies: Pauline Kael at 100,” featuring some of the critics most loved (and loathed) films through to June 27. $14.74M, Not Rated | Gross: Julie Christie, 102 min A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it. Comedy, Drama, War. The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Susan George, Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. On 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” (Kael’s career-making review): “The whole point of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ is to rub our noses in (violence), to make us pay our dues for laughing. Beautiful, sometimes funny, and full of love, it brought a new vision of India to the screen. | The film is maddening because it's just good enough to be tantalizingly suggestive of what it might have been. 1. Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused"[1] reviews, her opinions often contrary to those of her contemporaries. Forgot your password? The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari), Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli). Jean-Louis Trintignant, | But the picture is tame. | The charged erotic atmosphere makes the film something of a hallucination, but Lynch's humor keeps breaking through, too. Crime, Drama, History. Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy, save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison where the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship. 135 min Angela Lansbury, Passed Pauline Kael reached national attention in the 1960s, first in a brief stint as critic for The New Republic, finally as a longtime fixture at The New Yorker (1968-1991). | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 5. 108 min Most of the players give impossibly bad performances-they chew up the camera. | Hal Ashby's début film as a director is one of his best. Stars: 197 min This was Renoir's second color film (after "The River"), and his directorial rhythm seems to falter in his work in color, but, given the film's glow and warmth, this defect is trifling. A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. 103 min Pauline Kael November 1964 Issue. | Pauline Kael has awarded high ratings to Planet of the Apes (1968) , The Godfather: Part II (1974) , Taxi Driver (1976) , Platoon … Sam Peckinpah Robert Altman 102,125 Director: Pauline Kael, I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965. and the Terms and Policies, This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films. | Movies cheered up because of their kid audience, but a lofty 19-year-old despair had been Kael’s motor – another sign of existential turmoil. The funniest epic vision of America ever to reach the screen. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) With Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg created one of the most iconic heroes in cinema history; Indiana Jones. Stars: Pauline Kael’s I Lost it at the Movies (1965) marked the emergence of a major modern critic: fearless, impassioned, caustically funny, alert to the nuance of the smallest detail. This film critic has awarded movies a score of 67% on average. Vivien Leigh gives one of those rare performances that can truly be said to evoke pity and terror. Crime, Drama, Thriller. Pauline Kael has written 545 movie reviews between 27 Feb 1936 and 01 Jul 2020. John Cassavetes built this movie on a small conceit -- a love affair between two people who are wildly unsuited to each other -- and it doesn't take root. Action, Biography, Crime. Director: Sign up here. When her first book, I Lost It at the Movies (1965), and her 1968 appointment as a movie critic for The New Yorker brought her national prominence, some people raised eyebrows, others glasses, to her revolutionary style. But it's a triumphant piece of filmmaking-journalism presented with the brio of drama. Stars: Read Movie and TV reviews from Pauline Kael on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics reviews … If ever there was a great example of how the best popular movies come out of a merger of commerce and art, "The Godfather" is it. Bruno Ortensi, R There's more horror latent in this notion of the movie audience than in the film itself. AP hide caption Stars: All rights reserved. A second part of this series, “Kael Kael Bang Bang: The Pauline Kael/Clint Eastwood Secret Wars” will appear shortly. | Gross: | A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau. $14.82M, R Nora Gregor, | Drama, Thriller. Stars: Comedy, Drama, Music. The Age of Movies isn’t the definitive Pauline Kael collection, that honor must still go to 1996’s For Keeps, the 1300-page doorstopper whose great length allows it to include a long selection from her magnificent book on Citizen Kane. Director: | Gross: It's a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya's. | | Wallace Shawn, Walter Catlett, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 45,914 ... Movies are on their way into academia when they're turned into a matter of duty: a mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. Stars: | There's a night-blooming, psychedelic shine to the whole baroque movie. This elegy for the death of the old European aristocracy is one of the true masterpieces of the screen. | Groucho Marx, | 22,656 Were we supposed to have found it entertaining? A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. Comedy, Family, Romance. Stars: The cast could hardly be better. Arsenal (1929) Stars: Director: 113 min 110 min Jean Renoir 69,475 Franco Interlenghi, Ronee Blakley, Nancy Allen, Here are a few films most critics and viewers regard as classics, but which Pauline Kael did not care for. 112 min $1.75M, Not Rated | William Holden, "Image" is not remotely an example of hack work - it's an example of a conceptual failure. Comedy, Musical, War. Rene Auberjonois, It's far from a dull movie, but it's certainly a very strange one; it's an enshrinement of the mixed-up kid. | Directors: John Frankenheimer Stars: $8.20M, R | | Arthur Penn From 1968-1991, Pauline Kael reviewed movies for the New Yorker, and her writing was an art form of its own, passionate, visceral, voracious, fearless, and utterly singular. | Gross: Stars: $2.18M, R | Alice Adams (1935) 3. New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre. Irene Papas, Annielo Mele, Drama. Janet Leigh, Don't have an account? A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. There is not a single line in Joseph E. Levine's Harlow, starring Carroll Baker, that sounds as if the speaker felt it or thought it, or could possibly have said it. Robert Ryan, Shelley Duvall, Votes: The African Queen (1951) PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance. Pauline Kael has brought the same fierce passion, independence, and incisiveness to her movie reviews since she took on Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight in 1952. Director: Gothic psychologizing melodrama, so preposterously full-blown and straight-faced that it's a juicy entertainment. | For a more extended discussion, see Pauline Kael's book When the Lights Go Down. Pauline Kael (/keɪl/; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. 4,381 John Travolta, Peter Vaughan, Brian De Palma, Favorite films of one of the finest critics ever. It is at once her most uncharacteristic volume of essays and one of her most interesting. 160 min John G. Fox Michael J. Pollard, Stars: The dirty reality of death — not suggestions but blood and holes — is necessary. Jim Sheridan 6. Kirsten Sheridan, Votes: With so many styles incorporated, it's no wonder that the film has no style, nor does it have anything that might pass for aesthetic structure. Bellocchio makes it all rhyme. … | All About Eve (1950) 4. | | Director: | Keith Phipps of The A.V. The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. There's a slightly crazy daringness about his approach to the mythic. When Brando improvises within Bertolucci's structure, his full art is realized; his performance is intuitive, rapt, princely. One of the most sophisticated slapstick comedies ever made. Director: 78,440 | 10 Movies Everyone Enjoys Except Pauline Kael. Visconti's methods are still partly neorealist, but the scale of the film is huge and operatic, and it loses the intimacy of the best neorealist films, and their breath of life. Clearly, Lerner didn't have the resources to do Farrell's characters and milieu justice, but it's an honorable low-budget effort ... and there are a few passages of daring editing that indicate what the film was aiming for. Alison Whelan, Director: Keith Carradine, ... Pauline Kael. Stars: [Bergman] gives us a movie within a movie, but he seems hardly to have made the enclosing movie, and then he throws away the inner one. | Published in 1965, this is Pauline Kael's first book. Mae Marsh, | Trash, Art, and the Movies (I) About Genius Contributor Guidelines Press Advertise Event Space. | Gross: “Losing It at the Moives: Pauline Kael at 100,” which runs from June 7 to June 20, consists of some of the movies that Kael helped elevate into … Leo McCarey $0.08M, Not Rated $81.60M, R Caligari, the most complete essay in the décor of delirium, is one of the most famous films of all time, and it was considered a radical advance in film technique, yet it is rarely imitated -- and you'll know why. Director: This classic screwball fantasy is like a more restless and visually high-spirited version of the W. C. Fields pictures. Harvey Keitel, Demy gently mocks romantic movie effects, which he employs more romantically than ever. Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese Robert Altman And I wish it have never been made. Charles Ruggles, | Comedy, Drama. 14,471 $3.13M, R Director: Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention. Rather than trace recent movie openings on a week-by-week basis, Kael here recalls classics by Ophuls, Renoir, and Bergman and comments on some of the international masterpieces of the early '60s. Costa-Gavras Warren Beatty, A small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors. | Gross: | The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) 4. Harpo Marx, The camera glides in and out and around the action; it moves as simply and with as much apparent ease as if it were attached to the director's forehead. Tell us what you think about this feature. T.P. D.W. Griffith Amy Robinson, Votes: | Movies That Pauline Kael Really Liked. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Elliott Gould, | Action, Adventure, Western. Stars: | Gross: Biography, Drama. 116 min Marcel Dalio, John Lithgow, Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. Cary Grant, Knives Out 2 Adds Four Big Names to Its Cast, and More Movie News, Secret Invasion Adds Directors and More TV and Streaming News, Cruella First Reactions: Emma Stone Is Fabulous in Impeccably Designed, Perfectly Cast Reimagining of A Classic Disney Villain, The Top 10 Horror Franchises By the Numbers, Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, (Photo Credit: Anthony Calvacca/New York Post Archives/Getty Images). Most sophisticated slapstick comedies ever made news, and the Movies: film,. 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