Pauline Kael

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Early career

Peter D. Martin, the editor of City Lights magazine, overheard Kael's comment about films in a coffeeshop with a friend in 1953 and asked her to comment on Charlie Chaplin's Limelight. Kael named the film "Slimelight" and began releasing film critique in magazines regularly.

Kael later characterized her writing style: "I tried to loosen my style -- to get away from the term-paper pomposity that we learn at college." I wanted the sentences to breathe, not to have the sound of a human voice." Kael ridiculed the ostensible critic's objectivity, calling it "saphead objectivity" and including autobiography in her analysis. In a review of Vittorio De Sica's 1946 neorealist film Shoeshine, which has been ranked as one of her top films, Kael recalled seeing the film for the first time.

Kael's early reports on Berkeley's alternative public radio station KPFA, as the boss, grew in importance in Berkeley from 1955 to 1960, and later, the wife of the Berkeley Cinema-Guild and Studio's owner, Edward Landberg. Kael screened the films at the two-screen theater, "unapolo repeating" her favorites until they became audience favorites." She also wrote "pungent" capsule reviews of the films, which her patrons also bought.

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Awards

• 1964: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• 1970: George Polk Award, Criticism
• 1974: National Book Award, Arts and Letters, for Deeper into Movies
• 1978: Crystal Award, Women in Film Crystal Awards
• 1980: Muse Award, New York Women in Film & Television
• 1991: Mel Novikoff Award, San Francisco International Film Festival
• 1994: Special Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 1995: Writer Award, Gotham Independent Film Awards
• 2012: Posthumous induction into the Online Film & Television Association Film Hall of Fame, Behind the Scenes, Film Criticism