What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Year: 2018
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Run Time:
95 minutes
Pauline Kael grew up watching the bold and gloriously bitchy film goddesses of the 30s and 40s, absorbing the independent spirit of these remarkable women. She was not a rule-follower. From a nanny on Park Avenue to writing copy, Kael backed into film reviewing and criticism. She admitted she “could live without movies before she could live without books,” yet she became one of the most revered (and despised) forces in movies. After becoming the film critic for The New Yorker, Kael cemented her controversial influence, aggressively challenging the role of film criticism and even altering the course of cinema. She was a West Coast renegade assaulting the citadel of male New York critics. They hated her. She, in turn, hated academic reviewers and “unassailable” film classics, gleefully tossing verbal acid in the industry’s face. Rich in film clips and testimonials, with Sarah Jessica Parker as the voice of Pauline Kael, WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL is a documentary as unsparing as Kael, in which she is adored as heroine and condemned as villain. She’d have loved the villain bits. —C.R.
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Nesnadny + Schwartz Portrait Documentary Competition
Director
Rob Garver
New York-based filmmaker Rob Garver graduated from Northwestern University. He has written, produced, and directed several short films that have been screened in local New York cinemas and aired on cable television.
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WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL (2018)
Producers
Rob Garver, Glen Zipper
Cinematography
Vincent C. Ellis
Editing
Rob Garver
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