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But oh that Shearer!

Pauline Kael

Masturbatory fantasy triple distilled.

James Agee

You mean all this time we could have been Friends?

On the Beach at Malibu. Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) after her sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) reveals that Jane was not driving the car on that fateful night.

It isn’t shoddy (except for the music); it isn’t soap opera; it’s stately, respectable and dead. Neither the contemplative Zhivago nor the flow of events is intelligible, and what is worse, they seem unrelated to each other.

Pauline Kael

You gotta hand it to Davis, tough, she is a star. When she can’t dominate a movie with a good performance, she dominates it with a bad one.

Pauline Kael

she (actress Sandy Dennis) has made an acting style out of post-nasal drip.

Pauline Kael

…with songs where they are not needed (and Leslie Bricusse ‘s songs are never needed)

Pauline Kael

Dyan Cannon, who looks a bit like Lauren Bacall and a bit like Jeanne Moreau, but the wrong bits.

Pauline Kael

Even the train overacts!

Pauline Kael

After watching Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers for a while, you look around for the stars.

Pauline Kael

https://thebrownees.net/what-she-said-the-art-of-pauline-kael-2018/

But oh that Shearer!

Pauline Kael

Masturbatory fantasy triple distilled.

James Agee

You mean all this time we could have been Friends?

On the Beach at Malibu. Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) after her sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) reveals that Jane was not driving the car on that fateful night.

Pauline Kael

You gotta hand it to Davis, tough, she is a star. When she can’t dominate a movie with a good performance, she dominates it with a bad one.

Pauline Kael

she (actress Sandy Dennis) has made an acting style out of post-nasal drip.

Pauline Kael

…with songs where they are not needed (and Leslie Bricusse ‘s songs are never needed)

Pauline Kael

Dyan Cannon, who looks a bit like Lauren Bacall and a bit like Jeanne Moreau, but the wrong bits.

Pauline Kael

Even the train overacts!

Pauline Kael

After watching Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers for a while, you look around for the stars.

Pauline Kael

https://thebrownees.net/what-she-said-the-art-of-pauline-kael-2018/

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Idiot’s Delight (1939)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

Dr. Zhivago (1965)

The Nanny (1965)

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969)

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969)

Runaway Train (1986)

Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)

Idiot’s Delight (1939)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

Dr. Zhivago (1965)

The Nanny (1965)

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969)

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969)

Runaway Train (1986)

Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)