The Age of Movies: Selected Writings
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Unleashing the Power of Film Criticism
This book is a treasure trove for movie lovers, as it encompasses decades of film criticism from the legendary Pauline Kael. With her unparalleled ability to capture the essence of a film, Kael takes readers on a journey through iconic movies like Breathless, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather. Her witty and opinionated prose style makes each review an entertaining and enlightening experience, offering invaluable insights into the art of cinema. For anyone seeking to expand their knowledge and appreciation of film, The Age of Movies is an absolute must-read. So grab some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the masterful observations and spirited debates that await you in these pages.
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings
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ISBN: 9781598531091
Publisher: Library of America
Date of Publication: 2011-10-27
Format: Hardcover
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Goodreads rating: 4.18
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"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, enthralling readers with her 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 she made her reviews 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. To read The Age of Movies , the first new selection in more than a generation, is to be swept up into an endlessly revealing and entertaining dialogue with Kael at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best. 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 in this career spanning collection are her appraisals of the films that defined an era-among them 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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