Pauline Kael
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Nasatir, Marcia
Nasatir, Seth
Nashville
National Society of Film Critics (NSFC)
Neal, Patricia
Network
Newhouse, Samuel I. “Si,” Jr.
New Journalism
Newman, David
Newman, Paul
New Republic
Newsweek
New Wave
New York
New York City
New York Daily News
New Yorker
New Yorker Theater
New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)
New York Film Festival
New York Herald-Tribune
New York Review of Books
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
Next Stop Greenwich Village
Nichols, Mike
Nicholson, Jack
Night People
Nin, Anaïs
Nixon, Richard
“Notes on Heart and Mind” (Kael)
“Notes on the Nihilist Poetry of Sam Peckinpah” (Kael)
Notte, La
Novo, Silvana
Now, Voyager
No Way to Treat a Lady
Nugent, Frank S.
“Numbing the Audience” (Kael)
O’Brien, Edna
“Old Movies Never Die” (Kael)
Olivier, Laurence
Olvidados, Los
One, Two, Three
O’Neal, Ryan
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“On the Future of Movies” (Kael)
Ophuls, Marcel
Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck)
Orpheus in Sausalito (Kael)
Osborne, John
O’Toole, Annette
Out of Africa
Owl and the Pussycat, The
Pacino, Al
Page, Geraldine
Pale Rider
Panic in Needle Park, The
Paramount Pictures
Parker, Alan
Parkinson, Ariel
Parkinson, Thomas
Partisan Review, The
Passage to India, A
Patterson, Lindsay
Peckinpah, Sam
Penn, Arthur
Pennies from Heaven
Perkins, Anthony
Perlmutter, Ruth
Perry, Frank
Persona
Petaluma, Calif.
Pete ’n’ Tillie
Peters, Jon
Petulia
Pfeiffer, Michelle
Phillips, Hal Thomas
Picture (Ross)
Pileggi, Nicholas
Pixote
Platoon
Play It as It Lays
Politics
Pollack, Sydney
Pretty Poison
Preminger, Ingo
Preminger, Otto
Private Lives
Prizzi’s Honor
Production Code
Proust, Marcel
Quinn, Pat
Rafelson, Bob
Rafferty, Terrence
Raging Bull
Ragtime
Rahv, Philip
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
“Raising Kane” (Kael)
Raisin in the Sun, A
Ray, Bijoya
Ray, Nicholas
Ray, Satyajit
Rebecca
Redford, Robert
Red River
Reds
Reed, Carol
Reed, John
Reed, Rex
Reeling (Kael)
règle du jeu, La
Reisz, Karel
Renoir, Jean
Resnais, Alain
Rexroth, Kenneth
Rice, Elmer
Rich, Alan
Rich and Famous
Richard III,
Richardson, Tony
Richler, Mordecai
Rickey, Carrie
Ride the High Country
Right Stuff, The
Ritchie, Michael
Ritt, Martin
Ritz, Janna
Ritz, Harry
Ritz Brothers
Robinson, Amy
Rocky
Roger & Me
Rogers, Ginger
Rohmer, Eric
Rolling Stone
Room at the Top
Roose, Roz
Rosenberg, Harold
Rosenberg, Violet
Rosenblatt, Dan
Ross, Diana
Ross, Herbert
Ross, Lillian
Rossellini, Roberto
Rossner, Judith
Rush, Richard
Rushmore
Ryan’s Daughter
Salisbury, Dana
Samuels, Charles T.
San Francisco, Calif.
San Francisco Film Festival
Santa Barbara Star
Sarandon, Susan
Sarrazin, Michael
Sarris, Andrew
Sarton, May
Saturday Night Fever
Saunders, David
Sawhill, Ray
Scarwid, Diana
Scenes from a Mall
Schaefer, George
Schickel, Richard
Schiff, Steven
Schlesinger, Arthur
Schlesinger, John
Schrader, Paul
Scorsese, Martin
Scott, George C.
Scott, Randolph
Seberg, Jean
Segal, George
Seligman, Craig
Semple, Lorenzo, Jr.
Sergeant, The
Seven Beauties
Seventh Seal, The
Seven Women
Shadow of a Man, The (Sarton)
Shaffer, Peter
Shame
Shampoo
Shaw, Fiona
Shawn, Cecille
Shawn, Wallace
Shawn, William ; retirement of
Shearer, Norma
Sheen, Martin
Shepherd, Cybill
Sheridan, Jim
She’s Gotta Have It
Shining, The
Shoah
Shoeshine
Shoot the Moon
Sight and Sound
Silence of the Lambs
Silvers, Robert B.
Simmons, Charles
Simon, John
Simpson, Donald
Singer, Joel
Singerman, Basha
Singing Nun, The
Sirk, Douglas
Siskel, Gene
Sixties, The (Gitlin)
Sleeper
Smile
Smight, Jack
Snodgress, Carrie
Snyder, Gary
So Ends Our Night
Something Wild
“So Off-beat We Lose the Beat” (Kael)
Sophie’s Choice
Sorrow and the Pity, The
Sounder
Sound of Music, The
Spacek, Sissy
Special Day, A
Spelman, Hoyt
Spencer’s Mountain
Spicer, Jack
Spielberg, Steven
Sragow, Michael
Stagecoach
Staggs, Sam
Stallone, Sylvester
Stanwyck, Barbara
Star!
Stardust Memories
Star 80,
Star Is Born, A
Stark, Ray
Star Wars
State of the Art (Kael)
Steiger, Rod
Stein, Robert
Steiner, George
Stevens, George
Still of the Night
Stone, Oliver
Story of Adèle H., The
Story of Temple Drake, The
Stravinsky, Igor
Straw Dogs
Streep, Meryl
Streisand, Barbra
Strong, Edward W.
stud
ent protests
Stunt Man, The
Sturges, Preston
Suber, Howard
Sugarland Express, The
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sutherland, Donald
Symmes, Edwin Joseph
Symmes, Minnehaha Harris
Taggart, Shannon
Taking It All In (Kael)
Talbot, Dan
Talbot, Toby
Tanner, Alain
Tartack, Marvin
Taxi Driver
Taylor, Charles
Taylor, Elizabeth
Teagarden, Jack
Terms of Endearment
Tewkesbury, Joan
Thalia Theater
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Thieves Like Us
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Trevor
Three Women
Time
Toback, James
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toland, Gregg
Tomlin, Lily
Top Gun
Towne, Robert
“Trash, Art and the Movies” (Kael)
Travolta, John
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
Trilling, Lionel
Trip to Bountiful, The
Truffaut, François
2001: A Space Odyssey
Tyson, Cicely
Ullmann
University of California at Berkeley; Pauline at
Unmarried Woman, An
Urban Cowboy
Vanity Fair
Van Strum, Carol
Vietnam War
Village Voice
Vineberg, Steve
Visconti, Luchino
Vivre sa vie
Voight, Jon
Walken, Christopher
Wallach, Anne Kael (sister)
Wallach, Bret
Wallach, Max
Walsh, Raoul
Walter, Jessica
Warnecke, Gordon
Warriors, The
Watergate
Way We Were, The
Wearing the Quick Away (Kael)
Wedding, A
Weekend
Weingarten, Marc
Weld, Tuesday
Welles, Orson
Welty, Eudora
Wertmuller, Lina
West Side Story
Whalen, Philip
When the Lights Go Down (Kael)
“Where We Are Now” (Kael)
White, Armond
White, Katharine
Whitney, Jock
Whitworth, William
“Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, The Numbers” (Kael)
Wieseltier, Leon
Wild Bunch, The
Wilder, Billy
Wild in the Streets
Wilson, Richard
Winger, Debra
Wings of the Dove, The (James)
Winsten, Archer
Wise, Robert
Wiseman, Frederick
Wizard of Oz, The
Wolcott, James
Wolfe, Tom
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Wood, Michael
World War II
“Worn Path, A” (Welty)
Wyler, William
Yentl
Young, Colin
Zacharek, Stephanie
Zanuck, Richard
Zelig
Ziffren, Kenneth
Zinnemann, Fred
Zsigmond, Vilmos
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint or quote from the following writings:
Poem by Roy Blount, Jr., by permission of Roy Blount, Jr.
Letter from Peggy Brooks, by permission of Peggy Brooks
Letters from John Gregory Dunne, by permission of Joan Didion
Letter from Robert Getchell, by permission of Robert Getchell
Letter from Owen Gleiberman, by permission of Owen Gleiberman
Letter from George Roy Hill, by permission of the Estate of George Roy Hill
Letters and other writings by Pauline Kael, by permission of Gina James, in the Pauline Kael
Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Letters from Dwight Macdonald, Dwight Macdonald Papers, Manuscripts and Archives,
Yale University Library
Letter from Robert Mills, by permission of Fred Mills, in the collection of the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Poem by New Yorker staff members, New Yorker records, Manuscripts and Archives Division,
The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Letters from Sam Peckinpah, by permission of Kristen Dennis
Letter from Sydney Pollack, by permission of the Sydney Pollack family
Letter from Grover Sales, by permission of Georgia Sales
Letter from Michael Sragow, by permission of Michael Sragow
Letter from Daniel Talbot, by permission of Daniel Talbot
Letter from Ken Ziffren, by permission of Ken Ziffren
Photograph credits
Insert page 1 (top and bottom): Photograph by Walter A. Scott, used by permission of Gina James, in the Pauline Kael Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2 (top): Courtesy Joel Singer
2 (bottom), 3 (top): Photograph by James Cano, 1964, courtesy Linda Allen
3 (bottom): Courtesy Kathleen Carroll
4 (top and bottom), 7 (top and bottom): Photographed by Jill Krementz, all rights reserved
5 (top and bottom): Photofest
6 (top and bottom), 8 (top): Courtesy Polly Frost
6 (center): Courtesy Allen Barra
8 (bottom): By permission of the photographer, James Hamilton
The 1936 graduating class of San Francisco’s Girls’ High School (Pauline is in the front row, tenth from the right).
Detail: Pauline, front row, center.
James Broughton, the father of Pauline’s only child, Gina James.
Pauline cutting her friend Linda Allen’s hair, at Pauline’s house on Oregon Street, Berkeley, 1964.
Gina James, Berkeley, 1964.
The members of the New York Film Critics Circle, 1970. BACK ROW (standing): Bernard Drew, Pauline, A. H. Weiler, William Wolf, Frances Herridge, Frances Taylor, Archer Winsten, Robert Salmaggi, Judith Crist. FRONT ROW (seated): Ann Guarino, Wanda Hale, Kathleen Carroll.
Pauline on the New Journalism panel at the 1972 More Conference.
Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
Pauline receiving the National Book Award from Janet Flanner.
Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
A 1975 appearance on PBS, with Robert MacNeil and Woody Allen.
Pauline’s one and only stint as a juror at the Cannes Film Festival, 1977, with producer-actor Jacques Perrin.
Always a reluctant New Yorker, Pauline found the perfect retreat in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Pauline at home in Great Barrington.
Pauline’s writing desk: order was always extremely important to her.
Pauline with one of her New Yorker editors, William Whitworth. Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
Pauline in her office at The New Yorker. Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
Pauline with her close friend Polly Frost.
Pauline’s eightieth birthday party, June 1999.
ALSO BY BRIAN KELLOW:
Ethel Merman: A Life
The Bennetts: An Acting Family
Can’t Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell
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