For KeepsFor Keeps offers the best of Kael's reviews and other writings on movies from the collections that have marked her matchless career, starting with I Lost It at the Movies (1965), through Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Deeper Into Movies (a National Book Award winner), The Citizen Kane Book ("Raising Kane", the full text on the making of the movie, is here), and all the others in a glorious run concluding with Movie Love in 1991. Now that Kael has retired from regular reviewing, her reputation has only increased, and for the inimitable real thing, readers must turn to this volume to sample her perspicacity, fluency, and style. More than 275 reviews are arranged chronologically - in effect, a history of 30 years of movies. This ultimate compendium from America's most eloquent, passionate, and provocative critic is a boon to serious moviegoers and an indispensable companion in the age of the VCR. |
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Page 299
... everything he wanted , and then lost it . Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get or something he lost . Any ... every- thing else in Citizen Kane ; the jokes started a week before the movie opened , with a child's sled marked ...
... everything he wanted , and then lost it . Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get or something he lost . Any ... every- thing else in Citizen Kane ; the jokes started a week before the movie opened , with a child's sled marked ...
Page 321
... everything , for both Hearst and Welles , he wrote , " Shortly after I had been dragged from the obscurity of the police blotter and — a middle - aged , flat - footed , stylish - stout scenario writer - been pro- moted by the ...
... everything , for both Hearst and Welles , he wrote , " Shortly after I had been dragged from the obscurity of the police blotter and — a middle - aged , flat - footed , stylish - stout scenario writer - been pro- moted by the ...
Page 508
... everything . Scorsese isn't asking for expiation of Charlie's sins in the movie ; sins aren't expiated in this movie . ( The director has cast himself in the bit part of Michael's helper ; when Johnny Boy makes Michael look so bad that ...
... everything . Scorsese isn't asking for expiation of Charlie's sins in the movie ; sins aren't expiated in this movie . ( The director has cast himself in the bit part of Michael's helper ; when Johnny Boy makes Michael look so bad that ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION xix | 10 |
PART ONE FROM I LOST IT AT THE MOVIES 1965 | 10 |
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT | 14 |
Copyright | |
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