Over the Christmas break, there was some long, juicy reading to be had in the form of The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael. It was a good time to read something reflective, […]
Tag: film critique
Cahiers du Cinema: The Emotion of the 700th
Last month, Cahiers du Cinema produced its 700th issue, a major milestone for a niche and avant-garde publication of scholarly, political, and critical cinema writings which came out of the socio-political upheaval in Paris in […]
On the Role of the Contemporary Film Critic
This week’s New Yorker profile of the film critic Pauline Kael prompts today’s post: what infuriates or inspires the film critic to critique? Nathan Heller’s profile persuasively contextualizes Kael’s impulses as a writer and public […]
