Camille Paglia loved Pauline Kael for being one of America's great "bawdy" women and lamented the current "wasteland" of film criticism in her absence. She said so at a panel last night at the New York Film Festival, coinciding with the dual publication of Brian Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark [[Kindle]] and a Library of America anthology collecting Kael's best writing, The Age of Movies. Other panelists, all of whom praised her brilliant writing, were critics David Edelstein and Todd McCarthy, director James Toback, biographer Kellow, and the Library of America's Geoffrey O’Brien.
Joining the Kaelfest, today in the NYT Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott discussed her "bad" behavior, her critical voice, and the strong reactions she provoked.
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