Pauline Kael de Brian Kellow

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark

Brian Kellow

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 2012 – vârsta de la 18 ani

The first major biography of the most influential, powerful, and controversial film critic of the twentieth century

Pauline Kael was, in the words of Entertainment Weekly's movie reviewer Owen Gleiberman, "the Elvis or Beatles of film criticism." During her tenure at The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991, she was the most widely read and, often enough, the most provocative critic in America. In this first full-length biography of the legend who changed the face of film criticism, acclaimed author Brian Kellow gives readers a richly detailed view of Kael's remarkable life—from her youth in rural California to her early struggles to establish her writing career to her peak years at The New Yorker.

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“Illuminating.”

“[A] smart and incisive biography…. [Moviegoers] are in for a colossal eye-opening. [Kael's] love for film has no present-day counterpart…. Mr. Kellow’s clear, independent view of his subject is his book’s most valuable surprise….Kael liked to disparage what she called ‘saphead objectivity.’ Bur Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue."

“[Pauline Kael] got into my bloodstream more than any other critic. So I have been waiting most of my life for a smart, insightful biography like [Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark] to take me beyond and beneath the hypnotic thrill of her prose.”

"Mr. Kellow’s even-handed treatment gives us [Kael] in all her maddening overconfidence.”

“This affectionate biography makes [Kael's] life and her passion for movies inseparable.”

“To appreciate Kael’s trailblazing, you have to see it in its broader context. Luckily, that backdrop is filled in with surefooted sophistication by Brian Kellow in Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, a fair-minded and deeply reported Kael biography.”

“I fell on Kellow’s book like a teenage girl on a lost volume of the Twilight saga and found it quite as riveting as teens find anything to do with Bella.”

“A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the 20th century’s most influential movie critics.”

“[A] rich, thorough, and admirably fair biography.”

“[Kellow] brings a wise and sweeping vision to [Kael's] artistic mentality and her enduring legacy.”

“[M]eticulously researched.”

“[An] entertaining and insightful biography, as much a study of her criticism as a narrative of her life. . . . [Pauline] Kael emerges from [Kellow’s] biography as a great cinematic character, a kind of Citizen Kane, with a life lived and shaped by the dark.”

“Fun, fair, and fluently written, [Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark] is an edifying read.”

“Mr. Kellow throws a great deal of light on the famous critic’s heretofore mysterious ways.”

“In Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, author Brian Kellow offers a making-of story as engaging as her criticism. It’s not easy feat—what’s less dramatic than scribbling into the night?—but Kellow tapped [Kael's] friends and foes and her writing while developing a colorful, even handed appreciation of one of film’s most influential critics….[An] eye-opening biography.”

“The fact that most of us know little about [Kael's ] upbringing of her private life makes this an especially intriguing biography.”

“Compelling…thrillingly written and exhaustively researched….Genius.”

“Kellow evocatively captures the blooming of film culture in the early 1960s, and the sobriety with which Kael took over the critical pulpit….Kellow not only grasps the significance of his subject, but invokes the pace and energy of [Kael's] singular style….good, dishy fun.”

"Kellow has reconstructed Kael's 'life in the dark'....The result is a joy to read....[I]t's a fascinating book."

“[E]xhaustively researched, beautifully written….Kellow has told [Kael's] life in incredible detail….I found [Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark] enthralling because it vividly recreates a world I was part of, which seems now very distant. It is also because Kellow has been generous in quoting [Kael's] sensuous, percussive, often wise prose….Pauline was a galvanizing presence, and Kellow has brought her back with overwhelming intensity.”

“Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark is a very good biography."

"At last, a biography of the highly influential New Yorker film critic."

“The [present] I hope someone will send me is Brian Kellow’s Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark.”

“Kellow, an erudite movie lover…writes beautifully and dexterously interweaves the story of a career long-thwarted with a sensitive reading of [Kael's] youthful enthusiasm and intellectual growth. To an impressive degree, he gets inside the head of a precocious, fearsomely smart young woman from small-town California and is able to describe what drove her, which authors turned her on (James, Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Melville, Woolf, Proust), her love of jazz and her distaste for aesthetic, religious and political dogma. So thoroughly does he portray the development of Pauline’s character and passionate engagement with matters aesthetic that it comes as no surprise she was able to burst onto the scene, at the relatively advanced age of 48, as one of the most dynamic cultural arbiters of the past century….Kellow admirably brings Pauline’s wit, insight and passion to life on the page and has made at least one critic nostalgic for the days when heavyweight critical battles raged and at least one of us lived a life worthy of a biography….[An] excellent biography.”

“Kellow matches extensive research with acute perception in his sensitive and definitive biography of Pauline Kael, America’s foremost, and most controversial, movie critic.”

“Brian Kellow’s biography of [Pauline Kael] is a fascinating and enlightening read.”

“[A] finely balanced biography…[N]ot only will you not be disappointed with Kellow’s intrepid research, you’ll also be rewarded by his rich, close reading of her reviews (and the stories behind the writing of them) that does marvelous justice to Pauline Kael’s exhilarating gift for writing on the movies. Both, her admirers and her detractors could not have asked for a more satisfying biography.”

“Absorbing.”

“[A] smashing first biography of the famed New Yorker critic.”

“Compelling.”

“[A] richly detailed biography.”

“Throws radiant light on the renowned movie critic.”

"[A] fascinating new biography….[Kellow] captures [Kael's] best passages and most heartless insults and puts them in context.”

“[A] terrific new biography… [Kael's early life ] was a revelation to me, thanks to Kellow’s ace research.”

“[Pauline Kael is an] entertaining and insightful biography.”

“[Pauline Kael is an] excellent Biography.”

“[Brian] Kellow finds the emotional core of [Pauline] Kael’s persona….Kellow is quickly becoming a film fan’s dream biographer…. That Kellow chooses to write in calm, unshowy prose is both astute as a journalistic technique and integral to the book’s aesthetic success….Kellow’s Kael transcends mere artistic contrarianism and resembles a sort of impassioned duelist.”

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Brian Kellow is the features editor of Opera News, where his column, “On the Beat,” appears monthly. He is the author of The Bennetts: An Acting Family and the coauthor of Can’t Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell. A classically trained pianist, Kellow has also written for Opera and Playbill, among others. He lives in New York City.

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