Pauline Kael - Brian Kellow [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Acknowledgements
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Kellow, Brian.
Pauline Kael : a life in the dark/ Brian Kellow.
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1. Kael, Pauline. 2. Film critics—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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To my father, Jack Kellow, who loves shoot-’em-ups
To my mother, Marjorie Kellow, who loved The Godfather and Prizzi’s Honor, and thought ’40s women’s pictures were “crap”
And most of all to my brother, Barry Kellow, whose movie love turned out to be contagious
INTRODUCTION
In the beginning, even the French had their doubts about Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart. The director’s 1972 film was a memory piece that drew on elements of his own childhood. In it, a timid fifteen-year-old boy grows increasingly distant from his bourgeois French father and increasingly attached to his freewheeling Italian mother. After a bout with scarlet fever reveals that the boy has a heart murmur, his mother takes him to a health spa, where, free from the constraints of their ordinary lives, mother and son are drawn closer than ever—so close, in fact, that one night, on the heels of a boozy Bastille Day celebration, they wind up in bed together, quite gently and quite naturally making love to each other.
When Malle turned in his script for Murmur of the Heart, the Centre National