I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week. |
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User Review - delphica - LibraryThing(book 23 in the 2008 challenge) This is a collection of her early, pre-New Yorker, writings about film. I have always been a Pauline Kael fan. I love the way she writes about movies -- even when I don ... Read full review
Contents
Zeitgeist and Poltergeist Or Are Movies Going | 3 |
Shoeshine 1947 | 4 |
Fantasies of the ArtHouse Audience | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965 Film writings / Pauline Kael |
| Author | Pauline Kael |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | M. Boyars, 1965 |
| ISBN | 0714529753, 9780714529752 |
| Length | 365 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film & Video / General |
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