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Still trying to wrap your head around this year’s Olympics Opening Ceremony? We’ve got some analysis to help you parse the madness.
It is impossible to ignore the ways in which [Pauline] Kael’s gender makes her a target
Conversations With Pauline Kael by Amanda Shubert
JESSE MONTGOMERY: Well, I’m sure it’ll be better than Romanian YouTube. That was a struggle.
GEOFF DYER: Yeah, as I say in the book, this was a film that has to be seen properly projected, and that seems to me to be part of what it’s about. It’s about the wonder of cinematic space, and time is manifest in that, blah, blah, blah. You know — all that Tarkovsky bollocks!
