Talking about Pauline Kael: critics, filmmakers, and scholars remember an icon

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Part I: Friends, Neighbors, Confidantes -- Performing Pauline / Polly Frost -- Lustily Vigilant / Roy Blount, Jr. -- "If you're good enough, they'll have to take you": A Memoir in the Style of a Long Blogposting about a Friendship with Pauline Kael / Ray Sawhill -- Part II: Knowing Pauline: At Home and at the Movies -- Conversations, 1968 to 2001 / Martin Knelman -- Knowing Pauline / Allen Barra -- Encounters with Kael, 1975 / Lee Tsiantis -- Part III: Objects of Her Affection: Critics, Journalists, and Movie Makers / Pauline Kael: A Great Critic and Her Circle / David Denby.;These essays are about Pauline Kael, a film reviewer for the New Yorker from 1968 until 1991, and her work. In addition to tributes and remembrances by Roy Blount, Jr., filmmakers Joan Tewskbury and Paul Schrader, fellow film critics David Denby and Martin Knelman, and others, this anthology also features critical pieces that investigate the range, scope, and influence of Kael and her writings. Part I: Friends, Neighbors, Confidantes -- Performing Pauline / Polly Frost -- Lustily Vigilant / Roy Blount, Jr. -- "If you're good enough, they'll have to take you": A Memoir in the Style of a Long Blogposting about a Friendship with Pauline Kael / Ray Sawhill -- Part II: Knowing Pauline: At Home and at the Movies -- Conversations, 1968 to 2001 / Martin Knelman -- Knowing Pauline / Allen Barra -- Encounters with Kael, 1975 / Lee Tsiantis -- Part III: Objects of Her Affection: Critics, Journalists, and Movie Makers / Pauline Kael: A Great Critic and Her Circle / David Denby.