Author: Pauline Kael
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Keywords: movies, lost
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0714529753
ISBN-13: 9780714529752

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. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it’s as if the movies had only been released last week.

Author: Pauline Kael
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: movies, nights
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 1991-05-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0805013679
ISBN-13: 9780805013672

Smart, funny, and unforgettable, Pauline Kael is the most interesting and influential film critic in America. Her ability to skewer an actor or director and her wit, insight, and thorough knowledge of the film business make her by far the most rewarding regular observer of the movie scene.

Author: Craig Seligma
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: attract, opposites, kael, sontag
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-06-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1582433127
ISBN-13: 9781582433127

In this witty, erudite, and stylish study of two of the twentieth century’s most influential cultural critics, Craig Seligman penned the sleeper success of last year. Not a dry ponderous "think piece," but a lively, highly readable examination of the work of both Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael, this walloping literary dust-up sizes up two writers who couldn’t be more different in their style and approach. Though outwardly Sontag and Kael had things in common-they were both Westerners who came east, both schooled in philosophy, both secular Jews, and both single mothers-they were pol