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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.

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I confess that I haven't finished reading this book, but I have read enough to know that I like the way she thinks and writes. I can disagree with her very often, but I still love her cogent analyses of films and related subjects. There is no use of star-ratings in her works. I read her the first time way back in the mid-eighties when she analyzed the film Platoon, a movie I liked back then and I still like and consider a great film. She didn't like it and she reasoned effectively why she wasn't so impressed by this film as most other critics were. Although I felt like disagreeing with her back then, there was little I could think of to counter her arguments. Now, I have a chance to read things she wrote before and after I was born.The book is a compendium of excerpts of books she has written about films and critical essays on many important films. Among the books this volume borrows from are: I Lost It at the Movies, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Going Steady, Deeper into the Movies, Reeling, When the Lights Go Down, Taking it All In, State of the Art, and Movie Love. This prolific writer of movie criticism analyzes films using her knowledge of society, culture, and economics, as well as literary works that are the basis for movies. She prefers movies that offer meaning over movies that are simply spectacular; she raises her brows toward possible hidden messages that directors may send through their choices; she suspects the mass culture that inhibits individuality and that often controls the messages or lack of messages in films.Her views on many films may be controversial, but well-reasoned. This text also includes her views of many American and foreign classic films; a short bio of Cary Grant, an actor she admired so much, a Norman Mailer book on Marilyn Monroe; and a critique on a book about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, among other things. It is pity that she isn't around anymore. In my book, she is THE CRITIC. Great book.The Kindle edition is quite helpful because it provides an interactive Table of Contents that allows you to go back and forth into the text.

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