“The craftsmanship that Hollywood has always used as a selling point not only doesn’t have much to do with art — the expressive use of techniques — it probably doesn’t have very much to do with actual box-office appeal, either.”

—  Pauline Kael, book Going Steady

Going Steady (1969), Trash, Art and the Movies (February 1969)

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