PART OF PAULINE KAEL 100TH BIRTHDAY SERIES AT THE QUAD CINEMA IN JUNE
Speaking of Pauline Kael and The Fury, the Quad Cinema in New York is running a series titled, "Losing It At the Movies: Pauline Kael at 100," through the month of June. Included is a film that Kael loved to bits, Brian De Palma's The Fury, which will screen at 4:30pm on Wednesday, June 12, and at 9pm on Tuesday, June 18. The latter screening will be introduced by film critic Charles Taylor.
In 2002, ranking De Palma's Femme Fatale at number 3 on his top 10 film list for Salon that year, Taylor wrote, "As a visual storyteller Brian De Palma is without equal in contemporary moviemaking. Inevitably, his films are dismissed by critics and audiences who have become too lazy to process visual information. (Here's a decoder: When a critic describes a De Palma film as 'incoherent' it usually means he was too lazy to follow it.)"