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The Passion of Pauline Kael
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encomium
(en)
a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
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Kael's rave of The Godfather, Part II is finally a dull pileup of encomiums; by the time she places Coppola alongside Tolstoy, it's enough already.
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Kael's rave of The Godfather, Part II is finally a dull pileup of encomiums; by the time she places Coppola alongside Tolstoy, it's enough already.
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vituperation
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(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating
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the rarity of one contemporary prose stylist analyzing another's devices so closely (if vituperatively)
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the rarity of one contemporary prose stylist analyzing another's devices so closely (if vituperatively)
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One ex-Kaelite willing to talk on the record was screen-writer-director Paul Schrader. "Pauline Kael was my mentor. She got me into this business. I was going to a religious school, Calvin College, and my college and my church for. bade films-therefore I got interested in them. I took some film courses at Columbia. One night at the West End Bar I was vociferously defending Pauline's book I Lost It at the Movies, and Paul Warshaw, Robert Warshaw's son, said: "Would you like to meet her? She lives nearby. So he brought me over to Pauline's apartment on West End Avenue. We got to talking. I hadn't seen many films but I had strong opinions. It went on so late that I ended up sleeping on her sofa. The next morning she said to me, 'You don't want to be a minister, you want to be a film critic.' And: 'If you ever want to go to film school I can arrange it? Not only did she help me get admitted to UCLA Film School though I didn't have the proper requirements, but thanks to her recommendation I also began reviewing for LA Free Press.
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One ex-Kaelite willing to talk on the record was screen-writer-director Paul Schrader. "Pauline Kael was my mentor. She got me into this business. I was going to a religious school, Calvin College, and my college and my church for. bade films-therefore I got interested in them. I took some film courses at Columbia. One night at the West End Bar I was vociferously defending Pauline's book I Lost It at the Movies, and Paul Warshaw, Robert Warshaw's son, said: "Would you like to meet her? She lives nearby. So he brought me over to Pauline's apartment on West End Avenue. We got to talking. I hadn't seen many films but I had strong opinions. It went on so late that I ended up sleeping on her sofa. The next morning she said to me, 'You don't want to be a minister, you want to be a film critic.' And: 'If you ever want to go to film school I can arrange it? Not only did she help me get admitted to UCLA Film School though I didn't have the proper requirements, but thanks to her recommendation I also began reviewing for LA Free Press.
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