Pauline Kael - Reeling (1976)

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There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

Pauline Kael
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

Pauline Kael
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an appliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on — there's always something to watch.

Pauline Kael
Television as we have it isn't an art form — it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

Pauline Kael
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Pauline Kael
The Night Porter is said to be a runaway hit in Italy and France and to have made a big star of Charlotte Rampling, but surely one twinkle doesn't make a star.

Pauline Kael
To lambaste a Ross Hunter production is like flogging a sponge.

Pauline Kael
The Way We Were is a fluke — a torpedoed ship full of gaping holes which comes snugly into port.

Pauline Kael
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

Pauline Kael