Pauline Kael Audio Books & Videos

Watch this enjoyable documentary on the life and film criticism of Pauline Kael. Through interviews with her friends and family and countless movie clips, Kael's life is told in chronological order as her opinions on movies are interspersed throughout.

In 1968, film critic Pauline Kael weighed in on the state of the movie business in this interview with Studs Terkel. Kael had just published her second collection of reviews with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and discussed many of the opinions that she put forth in that book.

Pauline Kael sits down with Studs Terkel for an hour-long conversation about movies in the year 1972. She pans many beloved films of the time including Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971), which she denounces for their coldness.

Film critic Pauline Kael is interviewed about the state of movies in the mid-1980s and her book State of the Art (1985).

Pauline Kael weighs in on many films from the 1980s in this interview from Fresh Air. At the time she was championing smaller films and genre pictures that she felt were better than the big blockbuster movies of the 1980s.

New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael and director Woody Allen discuss films as a reflection of culture, both high and popular.