THE LEOPARD [IL GATTOPARDO, 1963] – Review by Pauline Kael
21/05/2017
Pauline Kael reviews Luchino Visconti’s ‘The leopard’ (Il Gattopardo). Published in The New Yorker, September 19, 1983
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SCARFACE (1983) – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL
12/05/2017
Pauline Kael reviews Brian De Palma’s ‘Scarface’
8½: Confessions of a Movie Director – Review by Pauline Kael
11/05/2017
The director-hero of 8½ is the center of the film universe, the creator on whose word everything waits, the man sought after by everyone, the one for whom all possibilities are open.
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Review by Pauline Kael
08/05/2017
The whole collapsing industry is being inspired by old Saturday afternoon serials, and the three biggest American moviemakers are hooked on technological playthings and techniques.
Raging Bull (1980) – Review by Pauline Kael
08/05/2017
Religious Pulp, or the Incredible Hulk by Pauline Kael As Jake la Motta, the former middleweight boxing champ, in Raging Bull, Robert De Niro wears
Platoon (1986) – Review by Pauline Kael
22/02/2017
Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone’s “Platoon”. Published in “The New Yorker”, January 12, 1987
Full Metal Jacket (1987) | Review by Pauline Kael
19/01/2017
Chances are that when Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket is at midpoint a lot of moviegoers will be asking themselves what it’s going to be about, and when it’s over they still won’t know.
Pauline Kael on ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
05/01/2017
Pauline Kael’s infamous review of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, where she referred to the movie as “trash masquerading as art” and “monumentally unimaginative.”
Bonnie And Clyde (1967) – Review By Pauline Kael
04/01/2017
How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on? Bonnie and Clyde is the most excitingly American American movie since The Manchurian Candidate.
Blade Runner (1982) | Review by Pauline Kael
28/12/2016
Blade Runner doesn’t engage you directly; it forces passivity on you. It sets you down in this lopsided maze of a city, with its post-human feeling, and keeps you persuaded that something bad is about to happen.
LOLITA (1962) – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL
18/10/2016
Pauline Kael’s review of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita is one of her best—inspired, incisive, exuberant
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Review by Pauline Kael
17/10/2016
Sergio Leone’s Once upon a time in America reviewed by Pauline Kael
THE SHINING: DEVOLUTION – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL
16/10/2016
Pauline Kael’s appreciative but skeptical review of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, The New Yorker, 1980
A Clockwork Orange: Stanley Strangelove – Review by Pauline Kael
18/09/2016
Review of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” written by Pauline Kael and published in The New Yorker, January 1, 1972
Barry Lyndon: Kubrick’s Gilded Age – Review by Pauline Kael
12/07/2016
Review of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, written by Pauline Kael and published in The New Yorker, December 29, 1975
The Deer Hunter (1978): The God-Bless-America Symphony – Review by Pauline Kael
05/07/2016
Review of Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, written by Pauline Kael and published in The New Yorker, December 18, 1978