Another great film book…Brian Kellow’s biography of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, titled Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark. Kellow devotes a considerable amount of the book to Kael’s more polarizing film reviews from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Reading selections from her review and the context that Kellow provides reminded me of some great (and not so great) movies that had slipped my mind. I was able to add several movies to my Netflix queue after reading this biography. Here a some review links for Kellow’s book:
I know that 2011 has been gone for several days now, but just today I ran across LA Weekly’s Year in Review Slideshow– with Legos: