SHELDON KIRSHNER JOURNAL

The Accidental Nazi

Post author By Sheldon Kirshner
Post date July 27, 2013

Even within the loathsome Nazi hierarchy, Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904-1942) was one of the most appalling figures. Hailed by Adolf Hitler as “one of the best National Socialists,” Heydrich was indeed an iconic villain. As head of the political and criminal police apparatus, as exemplified by the Gestapo and the SS, he was directly […]

Arts

Film Critic Pauline Kael was a Late Bloomer

Post author By Sheldon Kirshner
Post date July 21, 2013

As the lead movie reviewer of The New Yorker between 1968 and 1991, Pauline Kael was arguably the most influential film critic in the United States. Opinionated, witty, analytical and needling, she believed that film is “the most total and encompassing art form we have,” and that it could feed our imagination in “intimate, immediate, […]