5001 nights at the movies: A guide from A to Z

Humor & Entertainment

KAEL, Pauline

Movies

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

When the Lights Go Down

Brings together all of Kael's writings for The New Yorker over the past four years, including her famous profile of Cary Grant and her reviews of some two hundred films of the late 1970s

Henry Holt Co.

Taking It All in

Two collections of reviews by the mistress of movie reviewing in the 20th century, The New Yorker's Pauline Kael.

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

This collection of reviews by the film critic for "The New Yorker" covers films shown between June 1980 and May 1983 and includes "Mommie Dearest," "Reds," "Tootsie," "Gandhi," and "Return of the Jedi"

5001 nights at the movies: an A-Z film guide for cinema, TV and video viewers

Unknown

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Film Writings 1965-1967

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Arena

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is virtually an informal history of the movies. This volume deals with over 300 of them, some essay length, some in short sharp paragraphs. From Bonnie and Clyde to Blow Up, Miss Kael praises, damns and displays her extraordinary grasp of films, film-makers, techniques and film history.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Children's Books

Little,Brown & Co

I Lost It at the Movies.

Dust jacket notes: "Everyone talks about the movies but Pauline Kael does something about them: going to them steadily, day after day, she records what they mean, the many ways in which they affect our lives, and how shifts in the society affect our lives, and how shifts in the society affect the movies. As an analyst of the art form that has become central to American culture, she is peerless. It used to be said that a critic could be only as good as what he reviewed, and that anyone who covered a field, reviewing the worst and the mediocre along with the best, would be brought down to the level of the material. Pauline Kael has demonstrated that with movies, the worst and the mediocre can provide the basis for first-rate criticism; and, as she has pointed out, since bad movies and mediocre movies often have more influence on our feelings and on how we react the works of art do, she uses her precise and elegant analytic gifts to explore the ways in which bad movies are bad, and the ways in which they appeal to us. As Pauline Kael writes, 'Movies which might seem, of all arts, the simplest to write about, may be the most difficult to write about...The last few years they have been changing and moving into new areas so quickly, and new young directors have been reshaping the art in such extraordinary ways, that it isn't easy to know what's going on, or to offer an informed account of what's going on, unless one really stays at it. To be a casual critic of movies is to be no critic at all.' Pauline Kael is not an occasional commentator on movies; she is a movie critic, which for he means 'going steady' - remaining sensitive to the ways in which commercial pressures frustrate the hopes of the creators and distort their intentions, tracing the patterns of compromise in misshapen movies, of achievement in great ones, and using her strong, generous mind on the great 'bastard cross-fertilized super-art' of our times...."

Going Steady

History

Europe

Little,Brown

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