<div dir="ltr">Pauline Kael wrote a very long review of "Fitzcarraldo," paired up with a review of Les Blank's doc "Burden of Dreams." It's been years since I read it, but I still remember her descriptions of Herzog the madman dragging his boat up the mountain, and for what?<div><br></div><div>As Mark Harris pointed out, there may be critics with more adventurous tastes, but few, if any, had the prose power of Kael. And she was a champion of Ichikawa Kon, Mizoguchi, and Kurosawa (mainly their work in the 50s).</div><div><div><br></div><div>Ken Provencher</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Nice work! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Pauline Kael, who was born on a California chicken farm, was the quintessential rural girl with a yen for the city. She dissed Georges Rouquier's 1946 farm documentary "Farrebique" in a manner similar to that in which she put down Shindo's film, strongly conveying her feeling that country life was so boring that she could not imagine why anyone would make films about it. Throughout her career, she was utterly indifferent to the landscape tradition in cinema and all genres which partake in it (e.g., Westerns). The snarky comment "It's pictorial, all right" is quite characteristic. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Although undeniably a brilliant prose writer, Kael is not exactly the most reliable guide to world cinema. Although at least she showed an interest in it in her early career, reflected in the capsule reviews in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". By her later years, she scarcely paid attention to any non-American films at all (Stuart Byron once called her out on this). I don't believe she ever wrote a full-length review of a Fassbinder or a Herzog film, for example. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Mark R. Harris</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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