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August 09, 2005
Bring out your dead: Kehr kids Kael
In his weekly DVD roundup in the NY Times, Dave Kehr makes a seemingly distasteful personal aside about the intimate reasons single mother Pauline Kael may have revered a movie: "Kino on Video's ambitious new double-disc... Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920's and 30's includes two dozen rarely seen [shorts], most of them made in Europe in the 20's... The Kino set... includes Dimitri Kirsanoff's 1926 M�nilmontant, a 37-minute work that the critic Pauline Kael rather surprisingly cited as the favorite film of her life in an interview a few months before her death in 2001... With its frenzied cutting and freewheeling camera work, the sequence looks forward to the paroxysms of violence that Kael much admired in the work of Sam Peckinpah and Brian De Palma. But it is hard to imagine the tough-minded Kael falling for the sentimental story unless it set off some now inaccessible personal associations for her. (The Sibirskaia character finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a man who shows no further interest in her, and becomes duly determined to raise the child.)"
Posted by pride at August 9, 2005 12:07 AM
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