{"product_id":"the-age-of-movies-selected-writings-of-pauline-kael-9781598531091","title":"The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply \" Pauline Kael once observed  \"just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.\" Between 1968 and 1991  as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker  Kael used those formidable tools to shape the tastes of a generation  enthralling readers with her gift for capturing  with force and fluency  the essence of an actors gesture or the full implication of a cinematic image. Kael called movies \"the most total and encompassing art form we have \" and she made her reviews a platform for considering both film and the worlds it engages  crafting in the process a prose style of extraordinary wit  precision  and improvisatory grace. To read The Age of Movies  the first new selection in more than a generation  is to be swept up into an endlessly revealing and entertaining dialogue with Kael at her witty  exhilarating  and opinionated best. Her ability to evoke the essence of a great artist-an Orson Welles or a Robert Altman-or to celebrate the way even seeming trash could tap deeply into our emotions was matched by her unwavering eye for the scams and self-deceptions of a corrupt movie industry. Here in this career spanning collection are her appraisals of the films that defined an era-among them Breathless  Bonnie and Clyde  The Leopard  The Godfather  Last Tango in Paris  Nashville-along with many others  some awaiting rediscovery  all providing the occasion for masterpieces of observation and insight  alive on every page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280056377397,"sku":"ByrdShop_1598531093","price":70.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781598531091.jpg?v=1780618466","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-age-of-movies-selected-writings-of-pauline-kael-9781598531091","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}