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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598531719
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael written by Pauline Kael and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics “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.

Pauline Kael

Author : Brian Kellow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122207
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Pauline Kael written by Brian Kellow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential movie critics.”—Los Angeles Times “Engrossing and thoroughly researched.”—Entertainment Weekly • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2011 • The first major biography of the most influential, powerful, and controversial film critic of the twentieth century Pauline Kael was, in the words of Entertainment Weekly's movie reviewer Owen Gleiberman, "the Elvis or Beatles of film criticism." During her tenure at The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991, she was the most widely read and, often enough, the most provocative critic in America. In this first full-length biography of the legend who changed the face of film criticism, acclaimed author Brian Kellow (author of Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent) gives readers a richly detailed view of Kael's remarkable life—from her youth in rural California to her early struggles to establish her writing career to her peak years at The New Yorker.

I Lost it at the Movies

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book I Lost it at the Movies written by Pauline Kael and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deeper Into Movies

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714509419
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Deeper Into Movies written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taking it All in

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714528410
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Taking it All in written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All material in this book originally appeared in The New Yorker Includes index.

Movie Love

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714529530
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Movie Love written by Pauline Kael and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714506586
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Kiss Kiss Bang Bang written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reeling

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714525822
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Reeling written by Pauline Kael and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical Mass

Author : James Wolcott
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767930630
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Critical Mass written by James Wolcott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.

5001 Nights at the Movies

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250033578
Total Pages : 959 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book 5001 Nights at the Movies written by Pauline Kael and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Movie Freak

Author : Owen Gleiberman
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316382949
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Movie Freak written by Owen Gleiberman and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed. Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby when he was a wide-eyed 9 year old, then as a possessed cinemaniac who became a film critic right out of college. In Movie Freak, his enthrallingly candid, funny, and eye-opening memoir, Gleiberman captures what it's like to live life through the movies, existing in thrall to a virtual reality that becomes, over time, more real than reality itself. Gleiberman paints a bittersweet portrait of his complicated and ultimately doomed friendship with Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker film critic who was his mentor and muse. He also offers an unprecedented inside look at what the experience of being a critic is really all about, detailing his stint at The Boston Phoenix and then, starting in 1990, at EW, where he becomes a voice of obsession battling-to a fault-to cling to his independence. Gleiberman explores the movies that shaped him, from the films that first made him want to be a critic (Nashville and Carrie), to what he hails as the sublime dark trilogy of the 1980s (Blue Velvet, Sid and Nancy, and Manhunter), to the scruffy humanity of Dazed and Confused, to the brilliant madness of Natural Born Killers, to the transcendence of Breaking the Waves, to the pop rapture of Moulin Rouge! He explores his partnership with Lisa Schwarzbaum and his friendships and encounters with such figures as Oliver Stone, Russell Crowe, Richard Linklater, and Ben Affleck. He also writes with confessional intimacy about his romantic relationships and how they echoed the behavior of his bullying, philandering father. And he talks about what film criticism is becoming in the digital age: a cacophony of voices threatened by an insidious new kind of groupthink. Ultimately, Movie Freak is about the primal pleasure of film and the enigmatic dynamic between critic and screen. For Gleiberman, the moving image has a talismanic power, but it also represents a kind of sweet sickness, a magnificent obsession that both consumes and propels him.

It's Only a Movie!

Author : Raymond J. HaberskiJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813158990
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book It's Only a Movie! written by Raymond J. HaberskiJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once derided as senseless entertainment, movies have gradually assumed a place among the arts. Raymond Haberski's provocative and insightful book traces the trajectory of this evolution throughout the twentieth century, from nickelodeon amusements to the age of the financial blockbuster. Haberski begins by looking at the barriers to film's acceptance as an art form, including the Chicago Motion Picture Commission hearings of 1918–1920, one of the most revealing confrontations over the use of censorship in the motion picture industry. He then examines how movies overcame the stigma attached to popular entertainment through such watershed events as the creation of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Library in the 1920s. The arguments between Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris's heralded a golden age of criticism, and Haberski focuses on the roles of Kael, Sarris, James Agee, Roger Ebert, and others, in the creation of "cinephilia." Described by Susan Sontag as "born of the conviction that cinema was an art unlike any other," this love of cinema centered on coffee houses, universities, art theaters, film festivals, and, of course, foreign films. The lively debates over the place of movies in American culture began to wane in the 1970s. Haberski places the blame on the loss of cultural authority and on the increasing irrelevance of the meaning of art. He concludes with a persuasive call for the re-emergence of a middle ground between art and entertainment, "something more complex, ambiguous, and vexing—something worth thought."

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Author : Mattias Frey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570743
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Film Criticism in the Digital Age written by Mattias Frey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have given new meaning to the saying that “everyone’s a critic,” urgent questions have emerged about the status and purpose of film criticism in the twenty-first century. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book’s contributors find many signs of the film critic’s declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics—whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers—have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture. In addition to collecting a plethora of scholarly perspectives, Film Criticism in the Digital Age includes statements from key bloggers and print critics, like Armond White and Nick James. Neither an uncritical celebration of digital culture nor a jeremiad against it, this anthology offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities that the Internet brings to the evaluation, promotion, and explanation of artistic works.

Hooked

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hooked written by Pauline Kael and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Kael's works have evoked either adoration or strong criticism. But few readers of the New Yorker, for which she serves as movie critic, react to Kael with indifference. Critics should consistently provoke opinion, and Kael does so without fail, as shown in this collection of her New Yorker reviews. Over the years, Kael has lost none of her bite; she is still brimming with opinions--but opinions fully supported, not simply thrown out to see how far their ripple will travel. ISBN 0-525-24705-X: $24.95.

Los Angeles Stories

Author : Ry Cooder
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 0872865193
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Stories written by Ry Cooder and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories.

A Box of Darkness

Author : Sally Ryder Brady
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429992964
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Box of Darkness written by Sally Ryder Brady and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, comes a poignant memoir about a marriage that was as deep and strong as it was mysterious and complex Upton and Sally Brady were a rare breed: cultivated and elegant, they lived a life of literary glamour and high expectations. Sally a debutante; Upton a classics major from Harvard, they met at the Boston Cotillion. He was articulate, witty, and worldly, and he danced like Fred Astaire. How could she resist? Despite raising four children on Upton's modest wage as the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly Press, theirs was a world of champagne, sailboats, private islands, famous writers, family rituals, and ice-cold martinis. They lived life on their terms. But as time wore on, Upton, the charming and brilliant husband, the inventive, beguiling partner, grew opinionated, cranky, controlling, and dangerous. When Upton died suddenly one evening in their Vermont cottage, Sally began uncovering secrets. As she went through his papers, she discovered that her husband of forty-six years had desired the love of other men. Her riveting, charismatic husband was not quite the man he appeared to be, and a year of mourning became for Sally a time to unravel the dark and unexpected web he had left behind. Hers is a moving and powerful story of coming to terms with what cannot be changed. It is also a story of great love.

Film: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192803530
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Film: A Very Short Introduction written by Michael Wood and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film is considered to be the dominant art form of the twentieth century. It can be considered many other things; a record of events, a modern mythology, a career, an industry, an art, a hobby, and much else. Michael Wood explores the history of film, its venture into the digital age, and its role and impact on modern society.