For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies by Pauline Kael

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For Keeps: Thirty Years at the Movies

by Pauline Kael

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Info:	Dutton Adult (1994), Hardcover, 1312 pages
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So you like movies, eh? Give this a shot. A cornucopia and compendium of film reviews and criticism by the eminent New Yorker film reviewer, Pauline Kael. I don't always agree with her opinions, but every review radiates with her enthusiasm and knowledge for the medium. I haven't read all the reviews, but as a resource it is indispensable. Highly recommended. (

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kswolff | Feb 28, 2009 |

The 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 Movies (1973), Reeling (1976), When the Lights Go Down (1980), Taking It All In (1984), State of the Art (1985), Hooked (1989), and Movie Love (1991). (

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For Keeps is a dazzling anthology of reviews and essays by Pauline Kael, America's most important movie critic. This hefty book contains a fifth of Kael's total output. It reprints all of her most famous reviews, including her controversial treatments of Last Tango in Paris, The Long Goodbye, and Nashville. Also here are some of her best longer essays, "Movie Brutalists," "Trash, Art, and the Movies," and &quoy;Cary Grant: the Man from Dream City." Raising Kane, Kael's book-length revisionist view of Citizen Kane, is reproduced in its entirety. Kael's style is impassioned, incisive, witty, and deeply personal. In the preface to this extraordinary volume, Kael says, "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs. I think I have."

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