“A decade after her death, Pauline Kael remains
the most important figure in film criticism today, in part due to her own
inimitable style and power within the film community and in part due to the
enormous influence she has exerted over an entire subsequent generation of film
critics. During her tenure at the New Yorker from 1967 to 1991 she was a
tastemaker, a career maker, and a career breaker. Her brash, vernacular writing
style often made for an odd fit at the stately New Yorker. Brian Kellow gives
us a richly detailed look at one of the most astonishing bursts of creativity
in film history and a rounded portrait of this remarkable (and often
relentlessly driven) woman. Pauline Kael is a book that will be welcomed by the
same audience that made Mark Harris's Pictures at a Revolution and Peter
Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls bestsellers, and by anyone who is curious
about the power of criticism in the arts.”
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