The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication

A master film critic at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in a career-spanning collectionâ€”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 forÂ 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,Â Bonnie and Clyde,Â The Leopard,Â The Godfather,Â Last Tango in Paris,Â Nashville-along with many others, some awaiting rediscovery, all providing the occasion for masterpieces of observation and insight, alive on every page.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781598535082
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2016-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598535082

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781598535082
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2016-09-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598535082

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication

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