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November 25, 2005
Kiss Kael Boom BANG!: imperiling Pauline
OC Weekly's Greg Stacy is on deck for a little Kiss Kael Boom Bang: "In many movies, even the classics, there comes a scene in which the action screeches to a halt, the music swells and the camera sweeps in for a long, loving closeup as one of the characters imparts unto us the picture’s Big, Important Message. New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael warned us about such scenes, observing that it was as if the film’s director was jabbing us in the ribs and saying, “Listen to this; it’s pure gold.” Next up: Michael Barnes of the Austin Statesman, taking up the Black slack for the week: "Critics and audiences have so far underrated Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, the detective comedy with serious Raymond Chandler roots (including subtitles and themes — incest, pornography, mistaken identity, abuse of power — snatched from Chandler's books) and a wink to movie hyperconsciousness (starting with the Pauline Kael reference in the title)."And the Stranger's listings editor works the apocrypha, averring of The Sound of Music: "When the movie version came out, famous film critic Pauline Kael panned the film, calling it 'The Sound of Mucus.' Supposedly, Kael lost her job over the review." May we all work so hard after this life is over.
Posted by pride at November 25, 2005 01:11 PM
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