& Kael, Pauline. A destitute king — not because he was thrown away from the kingdom — but (because) on this earth, the way the world is, there is no kingdom good enough for Orson Welles.” — Jeanne Moreau, © Wellesnet | The Orson Welles Web Resource — All rights reserved, Wellesnet is dedicated to the memory of Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985). “To me, Orson is so much like a destitute king. The script ends with a beaming Mankiewicz clutching his Oscar and being photographed at his California home, while Welles is chided by a reporter in Rio de Janiero that his only Oscar win for Kane had to be shared with Mankiewicz. 74-82. Welles pointed to a white ranch house in the background and told me, ‘Contrary to what you’ve read, that’s where most of Citizen Kane was written.’ That house, which Welles rented in his early years in Hollywood, is visible in the background of that scene in Other Wind. [40], Upon the release of Kael's 1980 collection When the Lights Go Down, her New Yorker colleague Renata Adler published an 8,000-word review in The New York Review of Books that dismissed the book as "jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless. Description: 466 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. [8] In a review of Vittorio De Sica's 1946 neorealist film Shoeshine that has been ranked among her most memorable,[11] Kael described seeing the film, ... after one of those terrible lovers' quarrels that leave one in a state of incomprehensible despair. At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. But, of course, she wasn't writing comedy. Kael had intended to go on to law school, but fell in with a group of artists[5] and moved to New York City with the poet Robert Horan. In his preface to a 1983 interview with Kael for the gay magazine Mandate, Sam Staggs wrote that "she has always carried on a love/hate affair with her gay legions. by Pauline Kael, Herman J. Mankiewicz, et al. There is no mention of the weeks of preliminary script discussions between the Hollywood newcomer and veteran screenwriter before Mankiewicz’s arrival in Victorville. Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-authors of the screenplay for Citizen Kane, are the subject of the upcoming Netflix film Mank. That's it. A resigned Welles accepts that Mankiewicz will challenge him for authorship, but adds with what Jack Fincher describes as a “small smug smile of triumph”: “All right, Mank. Pauline Kael (|keɪl|), nada en Petaluma o 19 de xuño de 1919 e finada en Great Barrington (Massachusetts) o 3 de setembro de 2001, foi unha crítica de cinema estadounidense que escribiu na revista The New Yorker entre 1968 e 1991. But ask yourself: Who is producing this picture? [21] According to critic David Thomson, "she was right about a film that had bewildered many other critics.”[14] A few months after the essay ran, Kael quit The New Republic "in despair. Halfway through Mank, Houseman warns that Welles will seize credit for authoring the screenplay, something Mankiewicz seems resigned to under the terms of his contract. OCLC Number: 2889081: Notes: Originally published in 1971. Wellesnet has reached out to Netflix about Mank. [45], In the early 1980s, Kael was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which has a cognitive component. October 1 1972 Peter Bogdanovich The Kane Mutiny Peter Bogdanovich October 1 1972 Given that the title of the 120-page script is Mank, it should not come as a surprise that Fincher’s story focuses squarely on the acerbic, hard-drinking Mankiewicz. Pauline Kael (/ k eɪ l /; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. In her famous two-part 1971 article Raising Kane, American film critic Pauline Kael rants against Orson Welles’ outright authorship in Citizen Kane, the tip of the canon of film history.Her research was easily disproved by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich … Pauline Kael (/ k eɪ l /; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them." Carringer concluded Mankiewicz’s “principal contributions were the story frame, a cast of characters, various individual scenes, and a good share of the dialogue. I think I have". Her 'preview' of Robert Altman's film Nashville (1975) appeared in print several months before the film was actually completed, in an attempt to prevent the studio from recutting the film and to catapult it to box-office success. Why Mank, when I am finished with Kane no one outside this industry will ever remember you had anything to do with it.”. By Monica Delgado. Under her mentoring, Schrader worked as a film critic before taking up screenwriting and directing full time. Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields … (Jack Fincher died in April 2003.). She preferred to analyze films without thinking about the director's other works. But unfortunately, the Mank script by Jack Fincher finds it necessary to aggrandize Mankiewicz at Welles’s expense, as a credit hog and conniver who had little to do with writing the film, perpetrating that falsehood with dubious fictitious scenes and by omitting much of the actual history of Kane‘s writing. Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, her opinions often contrary to those of her contemporaries. In her famous two-part 1971 article Raising Kane, American film critic Pauline Kael rants against Orson Welles’ outright authorship in Citizen Kane, the tip of the canon of film history.Her research was easily disproved by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich … Download for print-disabled Deeper into movies by Pauline Kael. I hope that David Fincher’s film will not lower itself to such simplistic caricature in dealing with Welles, as if that is the only way to truly give the great Herman J. Mankiewicz his due.”. Virtually everyone thinks that Orson Welles wrote it.”. In a 1998 interview with Modern Maturity, she said she sometimes regretted not being able to review: "A few years ago when I saw Vanya on 42nd Street, I wanted to blow trumpets. Her collection 5001 Nights at the Movies includes positive reviews of nearly all of Peckinpah's films, with the exception of The Getaway (1972), as well as Hill's Hard Times (1975), The Warriors (1979), and Southern Comfort (1981). [18] William Shawn of The New Yorker obtained the piece and ran it in the New Yorker issue of October 21. First published in 2002 4 editions. Despite her initial dismissal of John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) for what she felt was its pointless brutality, she later acknowledged it was "intermittently dazzling" with "more energy and invention than Boorman seems to know what to do with ... one comes out exhilarated but bewildered". Herewith, another view. Australian/Harvard Citation. Welles is portrayed as having little to do with the first draft of Kane, which Mankiewicz wrote at Victorville, California, with the assistance of Houseman. Kael, Pauline. ... 'felt that if homosexuality were not a crime it would spread. After mentioning that some of the press had dubbed it "The Sound of Money," Kael called the film's message a "sugarcoated lie that people seem to want to eat. Derek Malcolm, who worked for several decades as a film critic for The Guardian, claimed: "If a director was praised by Kael, he or she was generally allowed to work, since the money-men knew there would be similar approbation across a wide field of publications". She was one of the most influential American film critics of her era. [19][20] Kael's rave review was at odds with prevailing opinion, which was that the film was inconsistent, blending comedy and violence. By Pauline Kae l. February 20, 1971. and Kael, Pauline. Raising Kane by Pauline Kael. But Mankiewicz lets Welles know he wants full screen credit for his writing, which he considers to be the best of his career. With her it was all personal. Those ripped-from-the-history-books Herman stories and witticisms are still entertaining, and in Jack Fincher’s script they performed double duty as building blocks to create Mank, the character. Fincher said that the original draft of his father’s script closely followed the argument made in one of the most famous—and likely one of the most controversial—essays ever to appear in The New Yorker: “Raising Kane,” from 1971, by one of the magazine’s film critics at the time, Pauline Kael. Not in Library. Based on a script draft leaked to Wellesnet, screenwriter Jack Fincher, the director’s late father, places his thumb heavily on the scale in favor of Mankiewicz. However, the project stalled because of Fincher’s insistence that the movie be shot in black-and-white, just like Citizen Kane. https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Kane-Pauline-Kael/dp/071453014X Wellesnet shared the script for Mank with film historian Joseph McBride, who has written three books on Welles, and Sydney Stern, author of the recent acclaimed biography The Brothers Mankiewicz. The 50,000-word essay was written for The Citizen Kane Book (1971), as an extended introduction to th… Raising Kane / Pauline Kael Methuen Drama London 2002. In what could best be likened to a Mankiewicz wet dream, an adoring Academy Award audience cheers the announcement of his name and that roar all but drowns out the mention of Welles’ own. [84] When confronted with the rumor that she ran "a conspiratorial network of young critics," Kael said she believed that critics imitated her style rather than her actual opinions, stating, "A number of critics take phrases and attitudes from me, and those takings stick out—they're not integral to the writer's temperament or approach".[85]. In a fit of rage, Welles trashes a liquor cabinet, which prompts Mankiewicz to say he will recreate that fury in the scene where Charles Foster Kane discovers his wife Susan Alexander Kane is leaving him. Who’s putting Citizen Kane on the screen with his creative vision not yours. Hooked by Pauline Kael. Seven years later, scholar Robert L. Carringer debunked Kael’s claims by citing script revisions and decades-old notes. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counterbalance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films—the freedom to analyze their implications. According to Stein, he fired her "months later, after she kept panning every commercial movie from Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago to The Pawnbroker and A Hard Day's Night. : Fur flies over the Kael "kopy kats, "REVIEW: Running Time: 17,356,680 Minutes", "Pauline Kael, the Truth, and Nothing But ...", "20th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards", Film Hall of Fame: Support – Online Film & Television Association, Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael, Pauline Kael's Legacy Built By Straying From Herd-NPR article, Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Kael&oldid=997131030, 20th-century American non-fiction writers, Neurological disease deaths in the United States, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 2012: Posthumous induction into the OFTA Film Hall of Fame Behind the Scenes Film Criticism, Online Film & Television Association, This page was last edited on 30 December 2020, at 03:49. 1971, The Citizen Kane book: Raising Kane / by Pauline Kael. Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields … [46] At the time, Kael explained that she would still write essays for The New Yorker, along with "some reflections and other pieces of writing about movies.”[46] Over the next 10 years, however, she published no new work save for an introduction to her 1994 compendium, For Keeps. Hooked by Pauline Kael. She also had a strong dislike for films that she felt were manipulative or appealed in superficial ways to conventional attitudes and feelings. [2], Initially, many considered her colloquial, brash writing style an odd fit with the sophisticated and genteel New Yorker. October 14, 1972: that date should become a landmark in movie history comparable to May 29, 1913 — the night Le Sacre du Printemps was first performed — in music history. [14], Kael continued to juggle writing with other work until she received an offer to publish a book of her criticism. Pauline Kael (/ k eɪ l /; 19. jun 1919 – 3. septembar 2001) bila je američka filmska kritičarka, najpoznatija po recenzijama koje je pisala za ugledni časopis The New Yorker od 1968. do 1991. godine, i koje su joj donijele reputaciju najuticajnije kritičarke u historiji filma. It is sad and offensive that such lies continue to be spread, as they also regularly are by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz, grandson of Herman. Fincher — who said he remembers reading “Raising Kane” on microfiche in high school — reworked the script with Eric Roth after his father’s death in 2003 to make it less hostile to Welles. Quite the same Wikipedia. Critics who have acknowledged Kael's influence include, among many others, A. O. Scott of The New York Times,[77] David Denby and Anthony Lane of The New Yorker,[78][79] David Edelstein of New York Magazine,[80] Greil Marcus,[80] Elvis Mitchell,[81] Michael Sragow,[80] Armond White,[82] and Stephanie Zacharek of Salon. Other cast members include Tom Pelphrey as brother Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Lilly Collins as Mankiewicz’s secretary Rita Alexander; and Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies. [2] In 1948, Kael and the filmmaker James Broughton had a daughter, Gina, whom Kael would raise alone. [10] Alternately, Kael was said to have had the power to prevent filmmakers from working; David Lean claimed that her criticism of his work "kept him from making a movie for 14 years"[86] (referring to the 14-year break between Ryan's Daughter in 1970 and A Passage to India in 1984). [90], In January 2000, filmmaker Michael Moore posted a recollection of Kael's response[91] to his documentary film Roger & Me (1989). The Citizen Cane Book By Pauline Kael, The Shooting Script By Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles. Directing it? "[61] In an otherwise extremely positive critique of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, Kael concluded that the controversial director had made "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Pauline Kael. The shooting script / by Herman J. Mankiewiez and Orson Welles, and the cutting continuity of the completed film Secker & Warburg London. Today Citizen Kane is widely regarded as the best movie ever made. What was so incredibly appalling and shocking is how she printed outright lies about my movie. Yet our tears for each other, and for Shoeshine did not bring us together. Welles tells him he has sent notes and will “run everything through my typewriter again.” This is the entire extent of the writing credit for Citizen Kane that Mank gives to Welles. They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. The same cannot be said for Kael’s subsequent takedown of Citizen Kane and Welles. Wikipedia Citation. They're outside my ken. It was a sensational essay that asserted Welles stole credit from Mank, who had dictated the original drafts of the script to his secretary, Rita Alexander, while Welles was not present. [58], Kael had a taste for antihero films that violated taboos involving sex and violence; this reportedly alienated some of her readers. In 1970, Kael received a George Polk Award for her work as a critic at the New Yorker. Andrew Sarris, a key proponent of the theory, debated it with Kael in the pages of The New Yorker and various film magazines. "[41] Adler argued that Kael's post-1960s work contained "nothing certainly of intelligence or sensibility" and faulted her "quirks [and] mannerisms," including Kael's repeated use of the "bullying" imperative and rhetorical question. In October 1967, Kael wrote a lengthy essay on Bonnie and Clyde, which the magazine declined to publish. Kael, Pauline (1971; rpt. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc Instant Watch Options It portrays him as a shadowy, menacing figure out of the myth concocted by Pauline Kael, John Houseman, and his other enemies — and mostly heard as a voice in the script, rarely seen, like a radio villain. If Herman Mankiewicz (aka Mank) offers you dialogue, you’d be a fool not to use it. She reinvented the form, and pioneered an entire aesthetic of writing.". [59], She was an enthusiastic, if occasionally ambivalent, supporter of Sam Peckinpah and Walter Hill's early work, both of whom specialized in violent action dramas. Occasionally, she championed films that were considered critical failures, such as The Warriors and Last Tango in Paris. [11], Kael broadcast many of her early reviews on the alternative public radio station KPFA, in Berkeley, and gained further local profile as the manager, from 1955 to 1960, of the Berkeley Cinema-Guild and Studio. [72][73] The "I can't believe Nixon won" quote also was sometimes attributed to other liberal female writers, including Katharine Graham, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion,[74] and was sometimes said to have instead been stated after Ronald Reagan's reelection in 1984. Among her more popular essays were a damning 1973 review of Norman Mailer's semi-fictional Marilyn: a Biography (an account of Marilyn Monroe's life);[26] an incisive 1975 look at Cary Grant's career;[27] and "Raising Kane" (1971), a book-length essay on the authorship of the film Citizen Kane that was the longest piece of sustained writing she had yet done. "[44], In 1979, Kael accepted an offer from Warren Beatty to be a consultant to Paramount Pictures, but left the position after only a few months to return to writing criticism. Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. 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