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I lost it at the movies : film writings, 1954-1965 / Pauline Kael.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : M. Boyars, 1994.Description: ix, 365 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0714529753 (pbk.)
  • 9780714529752 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/75
LOC classification:
  • PN 1994 K11i 1994
Contents:
Zeitgeist and poltergeist; or, are movies going to pieces? Fantasies of the art-house audience The glamour of delinquency : On the waterfront, East of Eden, Blackboard jungle .. Commitment and the straitjacket : Room at the top, Look back in anger, The entertainer, Sons and lovers, Saturday night and Sunday morning .. Hud, deep in the divided heart of Hollywood The earrings of Madame de ... (1953) The golden coach (1953) Smiles of a summer night (1955) La grande illusion (1937) Forbidden games (1952) Shoeshine (1947) The beggar's opera (1953) The seven samurai (1954) Breathless, and the Daisy Miller doll The cousins Canned Americana West Side story L'Avventura One, two, three The mark Kagi The innocents A view from the bridge, and a note on The children's hour The day the earth caught fire The come-dressed-as-the-sick-soul-of-Europe parties : La Notte, Last year at Marienbad, La dolce vita A taste of honey Victim Lolita Shoot the piano player Jules and Jim Hemingway's Adventures of a young man Firest in the plain (Nobi) Replying to listeners Billy Budd Yojimbo Devi How long the distance runner throws the race 8 1/2 : confessions of a movie director Is there a cure for film criticism? Or, some unhappy thoughts on Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of film : the redemption of physical reality Circles and squares Morality plays right and left
Summary: I 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., writing comments so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1994 K11i 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000120661

Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown. 1965.

Includes index.

Zeitgeist and poltergeist; or, are movies going to pieces?
Fantasies of the art-house audience
The glamour of delinquency : On the waterfront, East of Eden, Blackboard jungle ..
Commitment and the straitjacket : Room at the top, Look back in anger, The entertainer, Sons and lovers, Saturday night and Sunday morning ..
Hud, deep in the divided heart of Hollywood
The earrings of Madame de ... (1953)
The golden coach (1953)
Smiles of a summer night (1955)
La grande illusion (1937)
Forbidden games (1952)
Shoeshine (1947)
The beggar's opera (1953)
The seven samurai (1954)
Breathless, and the Daisy Miller doll
The cousins
Canned Americana
West Side story
L'Avventura
One, two, three
The mark
Kagi
The innocents
A view from the bridge, and a note on The children's hour
The day the earth caught fire
The come-dressed-as-the-sick-soul-of-Europe parties : La Notte, Last year at Marienbad, La dolce vita
A taste of honey
Victim
Lolita
Shoot the piano player
Jules and Jim
Hemingway's Adventures of a young man
Firest in the plain (Nobi)
Replying to listeners
Billy Budd
Yojimbo
Devi
How long the distance runner throws the race
8 1/2 : confessions of a movie director
Is there a cure for film criticism? Or, some unhappy thoughts on Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of film : the redemption of physical reality
Circles and squares
Morality plays right and left

I 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., writing comments so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week.

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