Directed by:
Rob GarverScreenplay:
Rob GarverComposer:
Rick BaitzCast:
Pauline Kael (a.f.), Quentin Tarantino, Alec Baldwin, Woody Allen (a.f.), Francis Ford Coppola, Jerry Lewis (a.f.), Paul Schrader, David O. Russell (more)VOD (1)
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Tagged by Roger Ebert as the most influential film critic of the late twentieth century, the film tells the story of Pauline’s turbulent life and work, through never-seen archival footage, her published writing and personal letters, and interviews with both friends and foes of her pen. Pauline is voiced by Sarah Jessica Parker, and participants include Quentin Tarantino, Camille Paglia, David O. Russell, Molly Haskell, Francis Ford Coppola, and daughter Gina James. Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was likely the most powerful, and personal, movie critic of the 20th century. Writing for The New Yorker and publishing a dozen best-selling books, she ruthlessly pursued what made a movie or an actor’s performance work, or not, and why. Her passion made her both admired and despised amongst her readers and her subjects. Pauline’s own story is one of struggle and obsession: the fight to establish her voice and have it heard, and to raise a daughter on her own in a time when the obstacles were high. The latter golden age of movies of the 1960s and 1970s are the focus of this film that pursues the question of what made Pauline Kael’s work so individual, so controversial - and so damned good. (Juno Films)
(more)Cast
Pauline Kael (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) - a.f.
Quentin Tarantino
USA
Best movies:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Django Unchained (2012)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Alec Baldwin
USA
Best movies:
The Departed (2006)
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Nuremberg (2000) (TV movie)
Woody Allen (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Love and Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
Best movies:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
War Hunt (1962)
Palo Alto (2013)
Jerry Lewis (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
The King of Comedy (1982)
Arizona Dream (1993)
Paul Schrader
USA
Best movies:
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
David O. Russell
USA
Best movies:
Adaptation. (2002)
Three Kings (1999)
Peter Bogdanovich (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Opening Night (1977)
Targets (1968)
Johnny Carson (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Newton Boys (1998)
John Boorman
UK
Best movies:
Zardoz (1974)
Robert Towne
USA
Best movies:
Suspect Zero (2004)
The Zodiac Killer (1971)
Drive, He Said (1971)
Dick Cavett (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994)
Annie Hall (1977)
Duane Hopwood (2005)
William Peter Blatty (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Exorcist (1973)
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
Norman Mailer (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Ragtime (1981)
King Lear (1987)
Cremaster 2 (1999)
John Guare
USA
Molly Haskell
USA
David V. Picker
USA
Marcia Nasatir
USA
Best movies:
Heart Beat (1980)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)