Francis Davis, Author, Pauline Kael, Author . Da Capo $18 (134p) ISBN 978-0-306-81192-0
This slim but potent volume offers movie lovers an elegant good-bye from the acerbic, wildly opinionated National Book Award– winning film critic who reigned at the New Yorker
from 1968 to 1991. The New York Times
called her "probably...
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Pauline Kael, Author Dutton Books $22.5 (404p) ISBN 978-0-525-24369-4
These essays on ""the state of the art of moviemaking'' are state-of-the-art Kael. She writes: ``In the 1970s, people who met me usually said something on the order of `You're so luckyyou get to go to the movies.' In the 1980s, people are more...
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Pauline Kael, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-525-24705-0
This ninth collection of her New Yorker reviews culls classic Kael criticism of more than 150 films released from 1985 to 1988. Refreshingly iconoclastic, Kael isn't afraid to revel in a lowbrow film (`` Little Shop of Horrors is jivey, senseless...
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Pauline Kael, Author Dutton Books $34.95 (1312p) ISBN 978-0-525-93896-5
In this mammoth anthology, former New Yorker film critic Kael skims the cream from 10 of her previous review compilations published between 1965 and 1991, adding a generous excerpt from The Citizen Kane Book (1971). In more than 275 pointed,...
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