Part I.
In 1963, Film Quarterly published an essay entitled “Circles and Squares.” It addressed the French auteur theory, introduced to America by The Village Voice’s Andrew Sarris. Auteurism holds that a film’s primary creator is its director; Sarris’s “Notes on the Auteur Theory” further distinguished auteurs as filmmakers with distinct, recurring styles. Challenging him was a California-based writer named Pauline Kael.
Kael attacked Sarris’s obsession with trivial links between filmmaker’s movies, whether repeated shots or thematic preoccupations. This led critics to overpraise directors’ lesser films, as when Jacques Rivette declared Howard Hawks’ Monkey Business a masterpiece. “It is an insult to an artist to praise his bad work along with his good; it indicates that you are incapable of judging either,” Kael wrote.
She criticized auteurist preoccupation with Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, claiming critics “work embarrassingly hard trying to give some semblance of intellectual respectability to mindless,...
In 1963, Film Quarterly published an essay entitled “Circles and Squares.” It addressed the French auteur theory, introduced to America by The Village Voice’s Andrew Sarris. Auteurism holds that a film’s primary creator is its director; Sarris’s “Notes on the Auteur Theory” further distinguished auteurs as filmmakers with distinct, recurring styles. Challenging him was a California-based writer named Pauline Kael.
Kael attacked Sarris’s obsession with trivial links between filmmaker’s movies, whether repeated shots or thematic preoccupations. This led critics to overpraise directors’ lesser films, as when Jacques Rivette declared Howard Hawks’ Monkey Business a masterpiece. “It is an insult to an artist to praise his bad work along with his good; it indicates that you are incapable of judging either,” Kael wrote.
She criticized auteurist preoccupation with Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, claiming critics “work embarrassingly hard trying to give some semblance of intellectual respectability to mindless,...
- 5/10/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
Producer Aaron Magnani has optioned the screen rights to Dr. Richard Baer's bestselling non-fiction book “Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities,” TheWrap has learned. Screenwriter Jen Kleiner will adapt the psychiatrist's book as a psychological drama that will be produced by Aaron Magnani Productions. “Switching Time” is based on a real-life case of multiple personality disorder. The book chronicles Baer's gripping account of treating a woman who created 17 different personalities in order to deal with emotional trauma stemming from abuse she suffered in the past. Also read: G.P. Ching's ‘Soulkeepers’ Book Series Heading to the.
- 6/5/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The La Times has sad news to report. The great character actor, Harold Gould, has passed away.
Harold Gould, a veteran character actor who played con man Kid Twist in the 1973 movie The Sting, Valerie Harper’s father on TV’s “Rhoda” and Betty White’s boyfriend on “The Golden Girls,” has died. He was 86.
Gould, who also was known for his stage work, died Saturday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement community in Woodland Hills of prostate cancer that had metastasized, said Leah Gould, his daughter-in-law.
A former university drama teacher who launched his career in front of the camera in the early ’60s, Gould appeared in movies such as “Harper,” the 1974 remake of “The Front Page,” “Love and Death,” “Silent Movie,” “Freaky Friday” and “Patch Adams.”
Over the last five decades, he made scores of guest appearances on TV shows such as “Route 66,” “Perry Mason,...
Harold Gould, a veteran character actor who played con man Kid Twist in the 1973 movie The Sting, Valerie Harper’s father on TV’s “Rhoda” and Betty White’s boyfriend on “The Golden Girls,” has died. He was 86.
Gould, who also was known for his stage work, died Saturday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement community in Woodland Hills of prostate cancer that had metastasized, said Leah Gould, his daughter-in-law.
A former university drama teacher who launched his career in front of the camera in the early ’60s, Gould appeared in movies such as “Harper,” the 1974 remake of “The Front Page,” “Love and Death,” “Silent Movie,” “Freaky Friday” and “Patch Adams.”
Over the last five decades, he made scores of guest appearances on TV shows such as “Route 66,” “Perry Mason,...
- 9/15/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Veteran TV writer Richard Baer has died from complications following a heart attack. He was 79.
Baer, who is best known for writing episodes of hit sitcoms including Bewitched and The Munsters, passed away at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California on 22 February.
He received his debut TV credit on The Life Of Riley in 1953 and went on to write for more than 20 shows including That Girl and Have Gun - Will Travel.
Baer's final TV script was for an episode of Who's The Boss? in the 1980s.
Baer, who is best known for writing episodes of hit sitcoms including Bewitched and The Munsters, passed away at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California on 22 February.
He received his debut TV credit on The Life Of Riley in 1953 and went on to write for more than 20 shows including That Girl and Have Gun - Will Travel.
Baer's final TV script was for an episode of Who's The Boss? in the 1980s.
- 3/7/2008
- WENN
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