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A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn't all corruption. The movie doesn't h..
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loneliness
films
society
movies
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Pauline Kael |
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Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts--it's when those who shouldn't, .
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Pauline Kael |
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The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
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movies
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Pauline Kael |
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The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.
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conventionality
repetitiveness
quality
standards
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Pauline Kael |
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An artist must either give up art or develop.
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Pauline Kael |
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When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything--even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.
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Pauline Kael |
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An artist must either give up art or develop. There are, of course, two ways of giving up: stopping altogether or taking the familiar Hollywood course - making tricks out of what was once done for love.
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Pauline Kael |
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Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.
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Pauline Kael |
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A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
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Pauline Kael |
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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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Pauline Kael |
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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Pauline Kael |
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Kicked in the ribs, the press says "art" when "ouch" would be more appropriate.
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Pauline Kael |
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The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.
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Pauline Kael |
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The action genre has always had a fascist potential, and it surfaces in this movie.
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Pauline Kael |
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If you can't make fun of bad movies on serious subjects, what's the point?
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Pauline Kael |