Pride and Prejudice: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow Graham Daseler March 2012 Book Reviews Not long after joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1968, Pauline Kael wrote a review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969), the popular western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
Real and Reel: The Education of a Film Obsessive and Critic by Brian McFarlane Daniel Eisenberg June 2011 Book Reviews Self-identified “filmophile” Brian McFarlane opens his “touch of the memoirs” at age ten, reminiscing about reviewing films he had never seen – something he never let stand in his way. I must state, at the open...
The Imp of Mischief: “Have You Seen…?” A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson Tony McKibbin April 2009 Book Reviews If Pauline Kael is often pugnacious, Jonathan Rosenbaum belligerent, Anthony Lane frivolous, then what word should we bestow upon David Thomson? Perhaps impertinence fits best, as Thomson so often takes a small...
