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This was Pauline Kael's favorite film

posted 14 years ago by jland
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Maggie: What was your favorite movie in your entire life?
Pauline: In my entire life? Well, there's a French movie that probably you've never heard of that I like best...
Maggie: And what was the French movie?
Pauline: "Menilmontant," a silent movie made in 1924 by Dmitri Kirsanov starring his beautiful Russian-born wife, Nadia Sibirskaya.

From "Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael" by Francis Davis

[–] BlueGreen 13 years ago

Yes, I read it in Ebert's journal.
And who could blame her?
It is an extraordinary work.

I wonder, what did she think of "The Crowd"?