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4 giorni fa · The movie is an ad for The Blue Angels, the Navy, planes, the military generally, and an iconography-based sense of patriotism, as much as the "Top Gun" films, the first of which was memorably described by New Yorker critic Pauline Kael as "a recruiting poster that isn't concerned with recruiting but with being a poster."
1 giorno fa · Pauline Kael once aptly described the nobility depicted by Visconti as “protected against almost everything in their lives except their own emotions.” 3 The Innocent is another period piece set among Europe’s decadent aristocracy having something of a last hurrah before modernism, urbanism, and, finally, a stupid war of their own making brought it all crashing down in the early 20th century.
6 ore fa · By Jeff Robbins. The morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered glumly around the ...
4 giorni fa · (Pauline Kael cited it as one of the rare examples of someone doing something new and inventive in film acting.) A full retrospective of Nichols’s film-directing work is taking place at the Cinémathèque française this May and June—and unfortunately, the key Nichols work they are missing is the David Hare–directed Mourner.
1 giorno fa · The Critic. Screenshot: Columbia Tristar Home Video. Three decades ago—on January 26, 1994, to be precise—two glorious words graced the ears of 26 million ABC viewers for the first time: “It ...
4 giorni fa · Until today, Kael’s quote has been a standard go to when explaining the definition of conceit. This ex-CNN reporter’s picture now replaces Pauline’s quote in my visual dictionary next to conceited. If you read the article I linked, you can see these are her own words (in the top half of the article).
5 giorni fa · This mostly online group will discuss classic films and occasionally a critically acclaimed recent film. Friday freak hour will be devoted to horror and a special fan club will focus on prestige TV. Watch the film BEFORE the meeting, then attend the online meeting to opine and consider its cultural impact/relevance.
