資深影評人Pauline Kael星期一死在馬薩諸賽州的傢中，終年82歲，她生前長期為《紐約客》雜誌寫影評，在電影界和影迷中頗有威望。（水杯子曰：數年前，國內齣現過盜版的微軟電影百科全書，裏麵的影評部分，主要由三個人執筆，其中就包括她，而且寫得確實比Roger Elbert那個老槍手好。願Kael女士安息。)

---轉自2001年09月05日10:22:11網易報道 By水杯子

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Published in 1965, this is Pauline Kael's first book. It is at once her most uncharacteristic volume of essays and one of her most interesting. Rather than trace recent movie openings on a week-by-week basis, Kael here recalls classics by Ophuls, Renoir, and Bergman and comments on some of the international masterpieces of the early '60s. She also meditates on the state of the art in provocatively titled pieces like "Are Movies Going to Pieces?," "Fantasies of the Art House Audience," and "Is There a Cure for Film Criticism?" Few movie reviewers of any generation can match her wit or intelligence. And almost no one can equal her passion for an art that had such an indelible impact upon her life; Kael's treatment of Vittorio De Sica's masterpiece Shoeshine is perhaps the most intimate and beautiful movie review ever written.

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I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week.