For keepsA 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" |
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FOR KEEPS: Thirty Years at the Movies
User Review - KirkusThink of this as the Riverside Shakespeare of longtime New Yorker film critic Kael's writing: It's not the complete works, but it's close. Kael (Movie Love, 1991, etc.) has been both celebrated and ... Read full review
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User Review - copyedit52 - LibraryThingThe best of the Kael books, I think, this collection of essays draws upon: I Lost It at the Movies (1965), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968), Going Steady (1970), The Citizen Kane Book (1973), Deeper into ... Read full review
Contents
1NTRODUCT1ON xix | 3 |
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT | 14 |
THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE | 20 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | For keeps A William Abrahams Book |
| Author | Pauline Kael |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 26, 2008 |
| Length | 1291 pages |
| Subjects | › › Motion pictures Motion pictures - Reviews Motion pictures/ Reviews Performing Arts / Film & Video / General Performing Arts / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
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