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tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.
Pauline Kael
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Pauline Kael
Age: 82 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 19
Died: 2001
Died: September 3
Film Critic
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Writer
Petaluma
California
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Tasteful
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Movies
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It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.
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The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.
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It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
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McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.
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At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.
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Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
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When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.
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The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
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Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
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For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
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For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion now B movies are a substitute for religion.
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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
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This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
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