Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (/keɪl/; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic.

Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" reviews, her opinions often contrary to those of her contemporaries. She is often regarded as the most influential American film critic of her day.

She left a lasting impression on many major critics, including Armond White, whose reviews are similarly non-conformist, and Roger Ebert, who once said that Kael "had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades."Owen Gleiberman said she "was more than a great critic. She re-invented the form, and pioneered an entire aesthetic of writing. She was like the Elvis or the Beatles of film criticism."

Early life and career

Kael was born on a chicken farm in Petaluma, California, to Isaac Paul Kael and Judith (Friedman) Kael, Jewish immigrants from Poland. Her parents lost their farm when Kael was eight, and the family moved to San Francisco. In 1936 she matriculated at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied philosophy, literature, and the arts but dropped out in 1940 before completing her degree. Nevertheless, Kael intended to go on to law school but fell in with a group of artists and moved to New York City with the poet Robert Horan.

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Famous quotes by Pauline Kael:

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them"
"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
"Trash has given us an appetite for art"
"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is"
"The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies"
"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 to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence."
"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera."
"In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.""
"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."
"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."
"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."
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by: Remy Ma

Oye rrraaa
Yo vamo' hacerlo
Boricua
Vamo' hacerlo
I'm a one bitch army
Y'all could hardly call me
So imagine when I team up with the Puerto rican Barbie
It's gon' be hard see
I'm so from the Bronx be
And all I really wanna see
Is blood on the concrete
Body's in bags and
Flowers on caskets
Corpses' swarmin'
With flies and maggots
Innocent girls and boys
Turn into bastards
I want bitches to die
Deaths that are tragic
And niggaz fucked in they ass
Turn into faggots
Their balls cut off
And mailed to they parent
See I don't give a fuck
I'm a mothafuckin' savage
Now ya'll tell me
What bitch is the baddest
Miss Remy con la queen
You need fire
Tu sabes fuego esta aqui
Vete pal carajo
Nigga far from me
No es dificil pa' ver
It ain't hard to see
A four clip in the extra
Yo soy la mierda tate quieta
This bitch got a bad temper
Respeta puta no pueda joder con nosotras
Un mierda!
[hook:]
[Remy Ma]
CMPR niggaz meant to
The Bronx is where they went to
Ima show ya'll mother fuckaz how to rhyme bilingual
[Ivy Queen]
Que llego la diva la caballota
Si preguntas en la calle soy la que te explota
[Remy Ma]
CMPR niggaz meant to
The Bronx is where they went to
Ima show ya'll mother fuckaz how to rhyme bilingual
[Ivy Queen]
Tu no querías mas aqui que me tienes
Dale dale ahora ahora nene
The girl is not to be fucked with
See I don't give a fuck
There's not a pussy on this planet that can't be fucked
Bitches don't exist to me
They all cum faced sluts
How much room in your mouth for my name with all that dick you suck
And your husband's a homo
He loves to get stuck
Like dildo's and vibrators shoved in his butt
We ran trizz on his lips
And made him dress up
And I got it on tape
We straight fuckin' raped him
Don't get it confused
See I hate male groupies
Pero he's willin'
Then I'm ready to take the opportunity
My bitches is the illest
So really we don't gotta care
Vete pa la mierda
Nigga get the fuck out of here
Yo no juego
Nigga I don't play
What I'm capable of
I don't know
Yo no se
Remy ma
I keeps the gun cocked in the auto
Miss ivy queen please canta la coro
[hook]
[Ivy Queen]
Ms. Remy con la Queen
Ahora nos vamo' a fuego
Este es mi estreno duro como un trueno
Cocoroca
La isla del encato
Volando en canto
Y sacarle con su llanto
A sangre fria
Mis quilas tienen crias
Jodedora por si tu no lo sabias
QUEEN llega
A escena
Dan pena
Con las locas que van nebuleando
Yo soy de la calle si me estas buscando
Ando con par de locos pa verte brincando
So no te ajores, no te desesperes mere
Yo tengo el control con las mujeres
Muchas me odian otras me quieren
Vendo mis discos
Y tengo mis bienes
Rrraaa
Remy get ready
Everybody




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