“In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.” GivingKindMayArtDifferentUsePastCultureBeliefAuthorityJokesPopsCampsDifferent KindsGesturesSixtyCompelledAltarsPop CultureRecyclingSatiricalZestLarger Than LifePop ArtShorthand Author:Pauline Kael
“if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.” IfsThinkingTryingMayFilmEasyDifficultPoetCriticsPainter Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.” PeopleWorldMayDifferentCountryMightValuesLos AngelesForeign Countries Book:i lost it at the movies Source: i lost it at the movies
“We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.” KnowsMayArtCountryCultureMoralHeroChaosCorruptionInnocenceWinnerOur TimeDamageThriveSurvivorLoserPopular CultureParalyzed Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.” MaySeemsActorsTalkingAirCitizensMovieJudaismCitizen Kane Book:The Citizen Kane book Source: The Citizen Kane book
“We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.” PeopleMayMeanEndsIndividualErasMovieReachingNew EraReaching The End Author:Pauline Kael
