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[pauline kael] offered a shackle-breaking song of liberation ... you had to experience an art form directly and then stand your ground ... "when I discovered that 'pretty poison' had opened without advance publicity or screenings," she wrote in 1968, "I rushed to see it, because a movie that makes the movie companies so nervous they’re afraid to show it to critics stands an awfully good chance of being an interesting movie. mediocrity and stupidity certainly don't scare them; talent does." she looked below the surface of a movie without ever giving up on that surface, which is where the action was ...
- david denby, "my life as a paulette: the story of a short friendship and a long obsession," new yorker october 20, 2003
posted October 28, 2003 in film, print. 20022001