Michael Sragow
Deeper Into Kael
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film
Deeper Into Kael
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film
Conrack and Its Critics
"You can take any stupidity you like and say, there, that's a liberal for you. Word covers simply everything." --Wilfrid
Speed and Thump
While pretending to capture the air of cynicism and moral defeat that has arisen in the age of Watergate, Hollywood
'The Glory of Blackness'
T HE WRITING in A Woman Named Solitude is so surely tied to the psyches of its characters that this
Suburban Apples and Neon
S OUTH JERSEY SUBURBS, which I'm familiar with, are different from the ones John Cheever writes about. Where I come
Deeper Into Kael
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film
Right Between the Legs
T HERE ARE FOUR erotic scenes in The Last Tango in Paris which are so much more honest than the
Goodbye, Danny
D ANNY DECK, the hero of Larry McMurtry's `EGIBLE> novel, is the kind of writer which, when I was 16,
Kissing Off Chandler
D ON'T SEE The Long Goodbye if you have fond and entrenched memories of the Raymond Chandler crime novel. Director
Tissue of Lies
C RIES AND WHISPERS is Ingmar Bergman's examination of the anguish each human being undergoes when he first discovers that
The Sins of Three Generations
T HE BOOK OF DANIEL is an incendiary work, it deals with crucial socials issues thoughtfully and passionately, But it
Seven to Place, Four to Show
1972 was as good a year for film as any other. There was no heightened seriousness, no now charm to
A Portrait of the Artist As An Adult
J OHN UPDIKE's new volume of short stories is his longest and most various, not his best. Out of twenty-nine,
Decline and Fall of a Film-Watcher
When I lived on Washington Square and took film courses at NYU, the Village Voice was indispensable. By 1969, it
