In an obituary, I wrote, “Pauline Kael had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades.” What did I mean by that? Pauline had no theory, no rules, no guidelines, no objective standards. You couldn’t apply her “approach” to a film. With her it was all personal.
Roger Ebert on Pauline Kael, which for me puts discussions about the hand tool-power tool/pins first-tails first/Japanese tools-western tools/18th century-contemporary design/waterstone-oilstone woodworking dichotomies in a new light.
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