By this measure, West Side Story is one of the best of all movie musicals. "[41] Adler argued that Kael's post-1960s work contained "nothing certainly of intelligence or sensibility" and faulted her "quirks [and] mannerisms," including Kael's repeated use of the "bullying" imperative and rhetorical question. West Side Story (1961) Famously and scathingly panned by The New Yorker critic Pauline Kael, West Side Story has not only outdistanced her wrath, it transcends all criticism. Pauline Kael Reviews A-Z. [58], Kael had a taste for antihero films that violated taboos involving sex and violence; this reportedly alienated some of her readers. Like most of those who end up embodying a particular establishment, Kael started out as an outsider. She also had a strong dislike for films that she felt were manipulative or appealed in superficial ways to conventional attitudes and feelings. However, she panned Midnight Cowboy (1969), the X-rated antihero film that won an Oscar for Best Picture. In Ivo van Hove’s Hands, West Side Story’s Actors Are Mice in A Cinematic Maze. (West Side Story. This is because, behind the legendary musical, lay a minyan of Jews. [8] In a review of Vittorio De Sica's 1946 neorealist film Shoeshine that has been ranked among her most memorable,[11] Kael described seeing the film, ... after one of those terrible lovers' quarrels that leave one in a state of incomprehensible despair. Pauline Kael (/keɪl/; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Yet, when he was dismissed halfway through the production (as Anthony Mann was on Spartacus thus allowing the young Kubrick to step in), the cast members, especially the dancers, did not welcome the news with relief but with ‘outrage, disbelief, and gut-punched devastation’. [45], In the early 1980s, Kael was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which has a cognitive component. [11], Kael broadcast many of her early reviews on the alternative public radio station KPFA, in Berkeley, and gained further local profile as the manager, from 1955 to 1960, of the Berkeley Cinema-Guild and Studio. The West Coast premiere was held in the cause of the Women’s Guild of Cedars-Mount Sinai Hospitals. By contrast, co-director of West Side Story, Jerome Robbins, had named names before the committee, resulting in the blacklisting of seven of his associates. She reinvented the form, and pioneered an entire aesthetic of writing.". West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. Though she might be loath to admit it, West Side Story was, in a way, the making of Pauline Kael’. With her it was all personal. He worried that ‘East Side Story’ would settle into a musical version of the 1922 play ‘Abie’s Irish Rose, a schmaltzy interfaith romantic comedy about Irish Catholics and Jews by Anne Nichols. "[66] Similarly, her criticism of the 1961 British film Victim was that the film sought to treat gay people "with sympathy and respect—like Negroes and Jews." But, of course, she wasn't writing comedy. The film may be I came out of the theater, tears streaming, and overheard the petulant voice of a college girl complaining to her boyfriend, "Well I don't see what was so special about that movie." In a 1998 interview with Modern Maturity, she said she sometimes regretted not being able to review: "A few years ago when I saw Vanya on 42nd Street, I wanted to blow trumpets. [6] Gina had a serious illness through much of her childhood;[7] to support her daughter and herself, Kael worked a series of menial jobs such as cook and seamstress, along with stints as an advertising copywriter.[8]. First remarked upon by Stuart Byron in The Village Voice, according to gay writer Craig Seligman the accusations eventually "took on a life of their own and did real damage to her reputation". An article on the lecture in The New York Times included this quote. [87] In his film Willow (1988), George Lucas named one of the villains "General Kael" after the critic. [32]:494 Welles considered suing Kael for libel. In her review, Pauline Kael called it ‘frenzied hokum’. Her fourth collection, Deeper into Movies (1973), won the U.S. National Book Award in the Arts and Letters category. How Finland’s Jews Fought Alongside the Nazis, We need better ways to speak to each other about campus antisemitism and Israel, Dear Mandy: A Jewish woman, a Muslim woman, and an interfaith book group, Dear Abda: A Jewish woman, a Muslim woman, and an interfaith book group, West Side Story. [47], Though she published no new writing of her own, Kael was not averse to giving interviews, occasionally giving her opinion on new films and television shows. Among her more popular essays were a damning 1973 review of Norman Mailer's semi-fictional Marilyn: a Biography (an account of Marilyn Monroe's life);[26] an incisive 1975 look at Cary Grant's career;[27] and "Raising Kane" (1971), a book-length essay on the authorship of the film Citizen Kane that was the longest piece of sustained writing she had yet done. Rita Moreno (Anita) later played a Jewish mother in the sitcom Happily Divorced (2011-2013). Director | West Side Story Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. Mirisch Pictures financed it. The shofar, a hollow ram’s horn, is one of the world’s most ancient instruments, and is still played today in Jewish religious ceremonies during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In a blistering essay in a 1980 edition of the New York Review Of Books, Renata Adler accused New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael of doing lasting damage to the critical enterprise. [64], In her review, Kael called the straight-themed Rich and Famous "more like a homosexual fantasy," saying that one female character's "affairs, with their masochistic overtones, are creepy, because they don't seem like what a woman would get into". The film also shows several of Kael's appearances on PBS, including one alongside Woody Allen. Despite her initial dismissal of John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) for what she felt was its pointless brutality, she later acknowledged it was "intermittently dazzling" with "more energy and invention than Boorman seems to know what to do with ... one comes out exhilarated but bewildered". Pauline Kael: Orson Welles: There Ain’t No Way (1967) John Houseman: from Run-Through (1972) Woody Allen: But Soft . [69][70], The quote quickly turned into an urban legend that Kael had instead stated something like "I can't believe Nixon won. Nathan Abrams reviews a new book about the classical musical, West Side Story. [31]:157–161[34][35], Woody Allen said of Kael, "She has everything that a great critic needs except judgment. Would love your thoughts, please comment. All four of the musical’s creators, Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim were Jewish. I had never experienced such a brazen, bald-faced barrage of disinformation. There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. Diverging from mainstream tastes, she would pan popularly acclaimed films such as The Sound of Music, Lawrence of Arabia and West Side Story, thereby enraging high … [65] Byron, who "hit the ceiling" after reading the review, was joined by The Celluloid Closet author Vito Russo, who argued that Kael equated promiscuity with homosexuality, "as though straight women have never been promiscuous or been given the permission to be promiscuous. You couldn't apply her 'approach' to a film. Dancers suffered from aching knees (this also afflicted the dancers in the orgy sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut), sore muscles and pneumonia. Similarly she trashes West Side Story (Robbins 1961) as an overtly saccharine musical spectacle for people who hate musicals, and back-handedly compliments Bass’s work by saying “Surely only Saul Bass could provide the titles for such a production” (Kael “Innocents” 34). "[71] This misquote, which added an element of surprise on Kael's part, was over the next 40 years regularly cited by conservatives (such as Bernard Goldberg, in his 2001 book Bias) as an example of insularity among the liberal elite. [39] Other than sporadic confrontations with Shawn, Kael said she spent most of her work time at home, writing. The stage version was originally planned as a story about a Catholic boy falling in love with a Jewish girl. I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc. Her 'preview' of Robert Altman's film Nashville (1975) appeared in print several months before the film was actually completed, in an attempt to prevent the studio from recutting the film and to catapult it to box-office success. Long before Kubrick became notorious for it, Robbins was doing multiple takes of physically draining dance sequences. 40 Pauline Kael West Side Story The irony of this hyped-up, slam-bang production is that those involved apparently don't really believe that beauty and romance can be expressed in modern rhythms, because whenever their Romeo and Juliet enter the scene, the dialogue becomes painfully old-fashioned and mawkish, the dancing turns to simpering, sickly romantic ballet, and sugary old stars hover in the sky. Three years later, Kael returned to Berkeley and "led a bohemian life," writing plays, and working in experimental film. He was dictatorial in style. [60], However, Kael responded negatively to some action films that she felt pushed what she described as "right wing" or "fascist" agendas. [25] It was the first non-fiction book about film to win a National Book Award. [38] According to Kael, after reading her negative review of Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, Shawn said, "I guess you didn't know that Terry is like a son to me." "[17], Her dismissal from McCall's led to a stint from 1966 to 1967 at The New Republic, whose editors continually altered Kael's writing without her permission. The Jets, the Sharks, and the making of a classic, Something’s Coming, Something Good, a history of ‘West Side Story, From Aliyah to ‘I’m A Celebrity’: Gwrych Castle’s Secret Jewish History. Why Is There Resistance to A Working Definition of Antisemitism? Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay. 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. "[22] In 1968, Kael was asked by Shawn to join The New Yorker staff; she alternated as film critic every six months with Penelope Gilliatt until 1979, and became sole critic in 1980 after a year's leave of absence working in the film industry. [19][20] Kael's rave review was at odds with prevailing opinion, which was that the film was inconsistent, blending comedy and violence. And I don't mean that facetiously. B roadly speaking, Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort ... and the Movies,” Pauline Kael noted in passing, ... An American in Paris, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and West Side Story, apparently threw Kael off the track. [83] It was repeatedly alleged that, after her retirement, Kael's "most ardent devotees deliberate[d] with each other [to] forge a common School of Pauline position" before their reviews were written. [39] Several directors' careers were profoundly affected by her, most notably that of Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, who was accepted at UCLA Film School's graduate program upon Kael's recommendation. Moore claimed that, two weeks later, she wrote a nasty, mean review of my film in The New Yorker. Roger Ebert argued in an obituary that Kael "had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades." Underpinning the Roman epic was an individual who had refused to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee, blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who penned the script Spartacus under the pseudonym Sam Jackson. Rob Garver's documentary entitled What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael was released in 2018. Kael, Pauline, I Lost It at the Movies , Boston, 1965. [46] At the time, Kael explained that she would still write essays for The New Yorker, along with "some reflections and other pieces of writing about movies.”[46] Over the next 10 years, however, she published no new work save for an introduction to her 1994 compendium, For Keeps. The Warriors US (1979): Action 90 min, Rated R, Color, Available on videocassette and laserdisc . According to Stein, he fired her "months later, after she kept panning every commercial movie from Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago to The Pawnbroker and A Hard Day's Night. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. [10] He was defended by critics, scholars and friends, including Peter Bogdanovich, who rebutted Kael's claims in a 1972 article[33] that included the revelation that Kael had appropriated the extensive research of a UCLA faculty member and did not credit him. Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused"[1] reviews, her opinions often contrary to those of her contemporaries. "[65], In response to her review of Rich and Famous, several critics reappraised Kael's earlier reviews of gay-themed films, including a wisecrack Kael made about the gay-themed The Children's Hour: "I always thought this was why lesbians needed sympathy—that there isn't much they can do. She also panned films that had elsewhere attracted critical admiration, such as A Woman Under the Influence,[50] The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Lawrence of Arabia,[51] most experimental cinema[52] (calling it "a creature of publicity and mutual congratulations on artistry"), most student films ("freshmen compositions"),[53] It's a Wonderful Life, Shoah, Dances with Wolves[54] and 2001: A Space Odyssey, the last of which Kael dubbed a "monumentally unimaginative movie." Craig Seligman has defended Kael, saying that these remarks showed "enough ease with the topic to be able to crack jokes—in a dark period when other reviewers. For if people cannot feel Shoeshine, what can they feel? Rabbi Zalman Schacter, My Career Counselling Mentor. With the voice of Sarah Jessica Parker narrating for Kael, the film is a portrait of the work of the film critic and her influence on the male-dominated worlds of cinema and film criticism. Eliot Feld played Baby John and Martin Abrahams featured as a boy on a bicycle. Where they are I don't know. [10] Alternately, Kael was said to have had the power to prevent filmmakers from working; David Lean claimed that her criticism of his work "kept him from making a movie for 14 years"[86] (referring to the 14-year break between Ryan's Daughter in 1970 and A Passage to India in 1984). I only know one person who voted for Nixon. In this version, an Irish Catholic boy falls in love with a Jewish girl who is a recent immigrant and a Holocaust survivor. Yet our tears for each other, and for Shoeshine did not bring us together. [2], Initially, many considered her colloquial, brash writing style an odd fit with the sophisticated and genteel New Yorker. She was a deadly serious historical revisionist.[92]. To find a movie title, click on a letter. Kael also wrote philosophical essays on movie-going, the modern Hollywood film industry, and what she perceived as the lack of courage on the part of audiences to explore lesser-known, more challenging movies (she rarely used the word "film" to describe films because she felt the word was too elitist). His fellow astronaut Gary Lockwood (also not Jewish) was felt to be too inexperienced. She was considered by many to be the most influential American film critic of the last 50 years. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961), big-budget Oscar bait extravaganzas that other critics fawned over. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Critics who have acknowledged Kael's influence include, among many others, A. O. Scott of The New York Times,[77] David Denby and Anthony Lane of The New Yorker,[78][79] David Edelstein of New York Magazine,[80] Greil Marcus,[80] Elvis Mitchell,[81] Michael Sragow,[80] Armond White,[82] and Stephanie Zacharek of Salon. Kael had often reviewed Lucas's work without enthusiasm; in her own (negative) review of Willow, she described the character as an "hommage à moi". They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. She became known as his nemesis. Under her mentoring, Schrader worked as a film critic before taking up screenwriting and directing full time. After mentioning that some of the press had dubbed it "The Sound of Money," Kael called the film's message a "sugarcoated lie that people seem to want to eat. McDonald, Dwight, On Movies , New Jersey, 1969. At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. He read her criticism voraciously growing up and said that Kael was "as influential as any director was in helping me develop my aesthetic". As her condition worsened, she became increasingly depressed about the state of American films, along with feeling that "I had nothing new to say.”[39] In a March 11, 1991, announcement which The New York Times referred to as "earth-shattering," Kael announced her retirement from reviewing films regularly. ... Later I learned that the man with whom I had quarreled had gone the same night and had also emerged in tears. Saul Chaplin who observed the dance rehearsals compared their atmosphere to that of ‘a concentration camp’. Moore wrote that Kael was incensed that she had to watch Roger & Me in a cinema (after Moore refused to send her a tape of the film for her to watch at home), and she resented Roger & Me winning Best Documentary at the 55th New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week. The legend goes that her scathing critique, in which she called the film “the single most repressive influence on artistic freedom in movies,” got her fired from McCall magazine. "[44], In 1979, Kael accepted an offer from Warren Beatty to be a consultant to Paramount Pictures, but left the position after only a few months to return to writing criticism. Natalie Wood, who played the title role in Marjorie Morningstar in 1958, a movie about about a young Jewish girl coming of age in New York City in the 1950s, starred as Maria. Life, as Shoeshine demonstrates, is too complex for facile endings. "[9] Kael disparaged the supposed critic's ideal of objectivity, referring to it as "saphead objectivity,"[10] and incorporated aspects of autobiography into her criticism. A basic shofar call, the Tekiah, provides the musical motif that many of the show’s most important songs are based on. [40], Upon the release of Kael's 1980 collection When the Lights Go Down, her New Yorker colleague Renata Adler published an 8,000-word review in The New York Review of Books that dismissed the book as "jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless. I teach film studies at Bangor University in north Wales where I live. Given these deep Jewish roots, it is only appropriate that West Side Story is being remade by Steven Spielberg for release in late 2021. Andrew Sarris, a key proponent of the theory, debated it with Kael in the pages of The New Yorker and various film magazines. She continued to publish collections of her writing with suggestive titles such as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, When the Lights Go Down, and Taking It All In. In 1970, Kael received a George Polk Award for her work as a critic at the New Yorker. The person who got the role was Richard Beymer who had earlier appeared as Peter van Daan in the The Diary of Anne Frank in 1959. The film West Side Story is based on the 1950s Broadway stage play, from an idea inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . "[60] She also called it "fascist medievalism. 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