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April 30, 2005
The nonpareils of Pauline
Pauline Kael once said... In the Times, Terrence Rafferty masticates Michael Powell: "It's this exasperating tendency to overwork his assets that makes Powell such a difficult filmmaker to evaluate. He has been accused of "inordinate ambition, bumptiousness and a general unevenness of judgment" (James Agee) and of being a "master purveyor of high kitsch" (Pauline Kael); he has been hailed as "a great director" (Martin Scorsese) and even as "the cinema itself" (Bernardo Bertolucci). And all those assessments are just." Meanwhile, in the Baltimore Sun, reviewing Chrystal, Michael Sragow notes "Famed critic Pauline Kael once noted that no actor can survive a bad toupee." There's little of the zing from beyond in a capsule for Masculin-Feminin in the Hartford Courant: "The late New Yorker critic Pauline Kael called the film "a rare achievement." But, earlier in the week, Variety found space for these comments on Barbarella:Pauline Kael wrote that Fonda's "American-good-girl innocence makes her a marvelously apt heroine for pornographic comedy."
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