Pauline Kael

Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown. 1965.

Film Writings, 1954-1965

I Lost it at the Movies

A collection of film reviews, most of them originally published in the "New Yorker," selected from the author's previous collections, covers movies from "Hud" to "Dances with Wolves"

For Keeps

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Sanford Schwartz

A collection of signature writings by the former "The New Yorker" critic offers insight into her ability to capture cinematic details and includes appraisals of such works as "Bonnie and Clyde", "The Godfather", and "Last Tango in Paris."

Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

The Age of Movies

A master film critic at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in a career-spanning collection—the first new selection in more than a generation "Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a generation. She had a gift for capturing, with force and fluency, the essence of an actor's gesture or the full implication of a cinematic image. Kael called movies "the most total and encompassing art form we have," and her reviews became a platform for considering both film and the worlds it engages, crafting in the process a prose style of extraordinary wit, precision, and improvisatory grace. Her ability to evoke the essence of a great artist-an Orson Welles or a Robert Altman-or to celebrate the way even seeming trash could tap deeply into our emotions was matched by her unwavering eye for the scams and self-deceptions of a corrupt movie industry. Here are her appraisals of era-defining films such as Breathless, Bonnie and Clyde, The Leopard, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, Nashville-along with many others, some awaiting rediscovery, all providing the occasion for masterpieces of observation and insight, alive on every page.

A Library of America Special Publication

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

The intelligent person's guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviews Look up a movie in this guide, and chances are you'll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next. Pauline Kael's reviews aren't just provocative---they're addictive. These brief, informative reviews, written for the "Goings On About Town" section of The New Yorker, provide an immense range of listings---a masterly critical history of American and foreign film. This is probably the only movie guide you'll want to read for the sheer pleasure of it.

Expanded For The '90s With 800 New Reviews

5001 Nights at the Movies

Raising Kane and Other Essays

All material in this book originally appeared in The New Yorker Includes index.

Taking it All in

An informal history of the movies--Jacket.

The sixties on celluloid: how Hollywood lost its mind, got hip, then blew its cool.

Film Writings, 1968-1969

Going Steady

Reeling

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

When the Lights Go Down

Orson Welles

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz

A companion to "Citizen Kane" - the film that was designed to shock - this text opens with an essay evaluating the making of the film. The original screenplay follows, illustrated with 40 stills and frame enlargements, together with notes on the difference between the script and the film.

The Complete Screenplay

Citizen Kane

The Citizen Kane Book

Interviews with Pauline Kael, movie critic for the New Yorker from 1968 to 1991.

Conversations with Pauline Kael

Francis Davis

In an interview shortly before her death, the film critic traces her career from her days at the "New Yorker" through her experiences with numerous directors, disappointment with recent cinema, and renewed interest in television.

The Last Conversation With Pauline Kael

Afterglow

The film critic for the New Yorker reviews thirty months of films, including "Dangerous Liaisons," "Rain Man," "Batman," "Goodfellas," and "Caualties of War"

Pauline Kael

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