Lucy Sante on Pauline Kael, Film Criticism, and Pop Culture
In the second season premiere of Private Life, host Jarrett Earnest is joined by the writer and critic Lucy Sante to discuss Pauline Kael’s career, pop culture writing, and Sante’s...
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In the second season premiere of Private Life, host Jarrett Earnest is joined by the writer and critic Lucy Sante to discuss Pauline Kael’s career, pop culture writing, and Sante’s...
In this episode of Private Life, the actress Holland Taylor reads Renata Adler’s essay “The Perils of Pauline,” an expansive assessment of Pauline Kael’s film criticism from the Re...
New movies from around the world treat sharp-minded talkers of all ages as agents of drama and danger.
In a compendium of films charting style over substance, Anna Biller’s first film in ten years would make for an all-encompassing starting point. Pilfered from ’60s Technicolor slas...
Telluride: Two generations of women see each other through the years in this marvelous documentary cobbled together from 80 hours of "Marie Antoinette" set footage.
Also: the punk-rock ruckus of Bikini Kill, New York City Ballet’s fall season, the Australian solo comedy “Garry Starr: Classic Penguins,” and more.
The reception to Paul Verhoeven’s lurid 1995 melodrama starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon was humiliating, but it’s since become a thought-provoking camp...
For the director who never makes bad movies...here's another banger.
In April 2025, lauded American writer-director Paul Schrader was accused of sexual assault by a former female assistant. She claimed the filmmaker trapped and forcibly kissed her i...
Jane Schoenbrun has created a cinema that feels similar to a rallying cry.
She was among the few women critics when she started out in 1995, and was the reviewer for the Washington Post for 23 years.
Rocker criticizes the critics of the box office flop, “None of the reviews I have read describe this film adequately, in my opinion. They seem to miss the overall effect”
Venice film festival: Rooney and Kate Mara play the real-life Chaplin sisters who spoke in unsettling unison in this silly, pointless dramaWerner Herzog is such a unique film-maker...
Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference.
On three essential profile docs out of this year's TIFF.
On two mesmerizingly abstract films from this year's New York Film Festival.
The best movie of the year is also already the most divisive, but it represents the kind of exuberant risk-taking that made the Hollywood movies of the 1970s great.
Venice film festivalWhen a figure from his past turns up to a family funeral, a college professor faces an agonising dilemma that makes him question his own morality and whether he...
To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on 157 directors. One of these...
Film critic Ann Hornaday has died. As chief film critic for The Washington Post, she was a respected and passionate voice in the world of cinema. She was also a longtime regular on...
I first saw Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, his stone-cold classic of 1965, as a teenager, and God knows how many times I have seen it since. It has the greatest opening sequence in cine...
Maestro Sergio Leone’s final film, Once Upon a Time in America, was originally panned nearly into oblivion in 1984 upon its initial release. However, within the past fifteen years,...
This year’s prime offerings include the festival début of an overlooked great director and startling new work by acclaimed filmmakers.
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