WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL - Q&A DOC NYC 2018

Extended conversation with director Rob Garver, film critics David Edelstein (New York magazine), Stephanie Zacharek (TIME) and Eric Kohn (IndieWire), and guest moderator Annette Insdorf, Columbia University Film Professor.
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 1:45 PM | SVA Theatre

[marcevan]

David Edelstein's self-criticism, his statement that he's become too soft( i.e. that he likes too many movies) is unfortunately very apt...I discovered Mr. Edelstein's reviews in the mid1980's when he was writing for the Village Voice and I thought he was really quite terrific (I remember saving his remarkably incisive review of Diane Keaton's performance in "The Little Drummer Girl")...but I do think he gradually lost his edge ( though he's still worth reading and dependably intelligent)...I would advise him to remember that even in the heyday of the 1970's Pauline Kael panned an awful lot of movies and those pans defined her sensibility as much as the raves...her vicious review of say, "The Exorcist" reveals Kael's way of seeing things as much as her ecstatic love letter to "Nashville "...the raves and the pans reverberate off of one another and it is her going full out in both directions that clarifies her personality as a writer...Whatever one thinks of Pauline Kael (and I think no one can touch her) her essence as a critic-her mettle- is very clear in one's mind; Mr. Edelstein's essence has grown cloudy.

[capt.molyneaux]

This doc sounds like a bunch of Talking Heads onscreen.

[vova]

I am far from being prudish but just wondering if casual cursing in public forum discussion of film art has become accepted thing.