Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael

Writer
Born
June 19, 1919
Died
September 3, 2001

Pauline Kael was born in Petaluma, CA, in 1919, and attended the University of California at Berkeley in the 1930s. She tried and failed to work as a playwright in her 20s, and began writing film reviews as a freelance writer for film journals in the 1950s. After success with national magazines in…

Writer

Citizen Kael(2020)
Love & Money(1981)

Self

Arena(1975)as Self
Altman on His Own Terms(2000)as Self
The Complete Citizen Kane(1991)as Self
The Magical Eye(1989)as Self - Film Critic, The New Yorker
Saturday Review(1984)as Self

Archive Footage

The New Yorker at 100(2025)as Self - Film Critic
Faye(2024)as Self - Film Critic
The Moviemakers: Tarantino(2023)as Self - Film Critic
Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende(2022)as Self - Interviewee
Analyzing A Performance: William Atherton in: The Sugarland Express(2019)as Self