A cincuenta años del ensayo de Pauline Kael sobre “Citizen Kane” y a ochenta del estreno de la película es oportuno evocarla como una creación en la que convergieron diversas visiones artísticas, grandes talentos, varias circunstancias (favorables y adversas) y una inesperada chispa que catalizó el potencial de todos esos factores en algo absolutamente único.
Con su formidable erudición y su prosa brillante,
Pauline Kael (1919-2001), crítica independiente e incisiva,
escribió en 1971 su ensayo “La creación de Kane”, sobre todo lo concerniente a la película; allí, por primera vez, postuló que el guion era de
by Gavin Lewis / July 3rd, 2021
During the recent G7 summit the corporate media went into pro-US propaganda overdrive. The BBC’s Global News channel – or UK global propaganda outlet – has spent the years since the Iraq War spinning the US Military’s assault on the Black and Brown homelands of the world as ‘America spreading democracy’. Media Lens has responded to the brutal consequences, condemning BBC Paul Wood’s misrepresentation “The coalition came to Iraq in the first place to bring democracy and human rights” (22 December 2005). Previously, BBC defence Correspondent Jonathan Marcus also historically spun American Military aggression as “the promotion of democracy throughout the Muslim world” (5 December 2002). In the near two decades since Iraq, consecutive BBC Political Editors Andrew Marr and Nick Robinson have also regularly spouted this propaganda position. And this ongoing orthodoxy was parroted ad-infinitum during the summit by the rest o
Keen Company will conclude the 2020-’21 Season with an all-star benefit broadcast of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Clever Chemist Matter by Jack Johnstone, starring Tony, Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning actor Santino Fontana.
In 1973, she made history at the Academy Awards, appearing in place of Marlon Brando, declining his statuette and making a speech about Native American rights. She has been speaking out ever since