Picks and Pans of Pauline Kael

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A Screening Series Exploring the Life and Work of the Trailblazing Film Critic 

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25 years after her passing, Pauline Kael is still making new fans — and enemies. 

Join us at The Triplex this June as we celebrate the life and legacy of the trailblazing writer who changed the world's perception of what film criticism could be during her tenure as film critic for The New Yorker, with a retrospective that explores the movies she championed as well as the classics she detested. 

The series opens on June 5th with a screening of Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Work of Pauline Kael, followed by a discussion with acclaimed photographer and Kael’s close personal friend Gregory Crewdson. 

The series continues that weekend when The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman joins us to discuss two films from the 1975 Oscar class: Robert Altman’s Nashville, a movie Kael "sat there smiling at the screen, in pure happiness”, on June 6th and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, which she called “a coffee table movie [that] might as well be a three-hour slide show for art history majors" on June 7th. 

Schulman’s fellow New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme joins us the following weekend for two tales of outlaw love that received very different receptions from Kael: Arthur Penn’s Bonnie & Clyde ("the most excitedly American American movie since The Manchurian Candidate") on June 13th and Terrence Malick’s Badlands ("so preconceived that there's nothing left to respond to") on June 14th. 

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Showtimes The Devil Wears Prada 2 | 4:30PM, 8:00PM The Sheep Detectives | 4:45PM, 7:30PM The Christophers | 5:00PM Blue Heron | 7:45PM

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