Pauline Kael reviewed films for The New Yorker for more than 20 years, and she was and still is widely acknowledged as ...

Not long after I became a movie critic, a journalist friend told me he was considering taking a trip to see Pauline Kael at her home in Great Barrington, Mass. He didn’t know Kael, other than as the ...

Where, as he puts it now, "I was about to receive my draft notice. One day as I was puttering around the apartment, trying to unstick one of the drawers in my captain's bed, washing a fork, who knows, ...