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Title: What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 16/06/2020
Genre: Special Interest
Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino
Director: Rob Garver
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour and 38 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Studio: Juno Films
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Director Rob Garver first read Pauline Kael's work as a young person in the 1980s, and he says that the fiery passion with which she wrote about film made a deep impression on him.Kael undisputedly transformed film into an art form in the eyes of the public. As a result of her writing, the pleasant weekend pastime quality of movie-going suddenly became a must-see, do-or-die, high-stakes experience.For Kael, watching films was a visceral adventure; she responded to them as if they were real events. Her vital spirit, cocksure attitude, fevered instincts, and withering wisecracks leapt off the page and made you laugh. And as Quentin Tarantino once observed, Kael was so on the nose at times that she could sometimes change your mind about a film you may have thought was pretty good.With this film, Rob wanted to take the excitement that he felt while reading Kael's work and translate it to the screen. The story is told largely through Kael's own words, which are collected from interviews, private letters, and published writing. Sarah Jessica Parker voices Pauline.

REVIEW
''The new documentary about Kael, ''What She Wrote: The Art of Pauline Kael,'' is as exacting, quirky, and engaging as the critic herself.''

Michael Calleri --Lockport Union Sun & Journal

The documentary is most insightful when it identifies Kael's influences, strengths and weaknesses.

Nell Minow, Roger Ebert.com

To see Rob Garver's affectionate documentary about Kael's career is to be once again swept away by the excitement of cinema as she experienced it. --James Greenberg, The Wrap

The new documentary about Kael, 'What She Wrote: The Art of Pauline Kael,' is as exacting, quirky, and engaging as the critic herself. --Michael Calleri, Lockport Union Sun & Journal

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