tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything—even the fact that she reads… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
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