Pauline Kael (1919–2001)

Filmography

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1991) Book: "501 Nights at the Movies" (Henry Holt & Co.) See more »

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Height:

4' 9" (1.45 m)

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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[on Nicolas Roeg] Nothing in Roeg's style appears to be spontaneous; it's all artifice and technique, like an entertainment for bomb victims. Nobody expects any real pleasure from it. See more »

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Trivia:

Her extremely controversial 1971 essay (about the making of Citizen Kane) "Raising Kane" - in which several pieces of uncorroborated hearsay or mere guesswork are passed off as fact - was not the first occasion on which her integrity was open to question. Nearly twenty years earlier, her hostile review of the film Salt of the Earth mentions scenes not actually in the film... See more »

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Nickname:

The Bird Woman of Petaluma See more »

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Star Sign:

Gemini