In his newest musing about culture, Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me, author Craig Seligman introduces us anew to two formidable, iconic critics, Susan Sontag and the late Pauline Kael. Reading from his book, a lyrical analysis coupled with frank intellectual autobiography, Seligman will highlight Sontag and Kael's critical careers with special emphasis on their approaches to Godard. Seligman is a New York–based critic who has written for The New Yorker, Village Voice, The New Republic, Artforum, and Salon, as well as the San Francisco Examiner, where he was a staff film reviewer.

(Bande à part). Two aspiring Parisian thugs, Franz and Arthur (Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur), are drawn to violence as bit players in a film noir: they adore the cool indifference, the macho invulnerability. All that is to change when Odile (Anna Karina) enlists them to burglarize the villa where she works and reality arrives like a police siren. Pauline Kael wrote: “This Godard film is like a reverie of a gangster movie-a gangster movie as students in an espresso bar might remember it or plan it. It has the gangster-film virtues (loyalty, daring) but they are mixed with innocence, amorality, lack of equilibrium. It's as if a French poet took a banal American crime novel and told it to us in terms of the romance and beauty he read between the lines.” (5001 Nights at the Movies)