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In Praise of Pauline Kael (15 person items)" Camille Paglia described Kael as her second favorite critic (behind Parker Tyler), criticizing Kael's commentary on such films as La Dolce Vita and Last Year at Marienbad but also describing Kael as "unfailingly perceptive tart, lively, colloquial style I thought exactly right for a mass form like the movies." "Just a masterpiece of satire is "The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties." This, what Kael was attacking, were the films I adored. Oh, these foreign films where the peopl"
The Favourite Films of Critics and Filmmakers (32 movies items)"1. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) 2. La Dolce Vita (1959, Federico Fellini) 3. Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming) 4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) 5. North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) 6. Orpheus (1949, Jean Cocteau) 7. Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) 8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) 9. The Ten Commandments (1923-56, Cecil B. DeMille) 10. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)"
