Books like State of the art by Pauline Kael

Discusses films such as On the waterfront, East of Eden, Blackboard jungle, Room at the top, Look back in anger, The entertainer, Sons and lovers, Saturday night and Sunday morning, Hud, The earrings of Madame de ..., The golden coach, Smiles of a summer night, La grande illusion, Forbidden games, Shoeshine, Beggar's opera, The seven samurai, Breathless, The cousins, West Side story, L'Avventura, One, two, three, The mark, Kagi, The innocents, A view from the bridge, The day the earth caught fire, La Notte, Last year at Marienbad, La dolce vita, A taste of honey, Victim, Lolita, Shoot the piano player, Jules and Jim, Adventures of a young man, Fires on the plain, Billy Budd, Yojimbo, Devi, 8 1/2, and others.

The celebrated movie critic voices her opinions on a host of recent American and foreign films that have graced the screen.

A comprehensive guide to the most essential films of all time, spanning classics like *2001: A Space Odyssey* to legendary Westerns and beyond, with curated reviews that highlight their cinematic significance and audience impact.

"For over four decades, Stanley Kauffmann's skilled, cultivated, and impassioned film reviews in the New Republic have guided filmgoers and charted the development of the cinema arts. Over the course of his distinguished career, he has been an independent voice in film criticism, challenging preconceptions, skewering pretensions, and championing a wide diversity of films, from Hollywood blockbusters to over-looked gems.". "In his latest collection of film writings, Kauffmann discusses the most influential, exciting, and innovative films released since 1993, as well as less successful - sometimes disastrous - efforts. From major films by established Hollywood directors (Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and Oliver Stone's Nixon) to works from the iconoclastic world of independent American film (Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men and David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey) to the best of world cinema (Abbas Kiarostami's A Taste of Cherry and Erick Zonca's The Dreamlife of Angels), Kauffmann offers his lively and considered views of over sixty films. In other essays, he compares cinematic adaptations of Mozart's operas, explores changing public attitudes toward film as an art form, assesses the possibilities of accurately dramatizing the Holocaust, and recalls the careers of such important figures in film history as David Lean, Billy Wilder, and Akira Kurosawa. A model of provocative writing about the liveliest art, Regarding Film will delight ardent movie lovers everywhere."--BOOK JACKET.

The peerless, fearless, inimitable Pauline Kael singlehandedly turned movie reviewing into a popular art form in 1965 with I Lost it at the Movies. As critic of The New Yorker she has been going full tilt ever since. Hooked is her ninth collection (and eleventh book), and it brings together all her reviews from July 1985 to June 1988. The scope is wide—Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Dirty Dancing, Radio Days, Hannah and Her Sisters, Platoon, Hope and Glory, Broadcast News, Top Gun, Fatal Attraction, The Last Emperor, A World Apart, Bull Durham . . . more than 175 movies in all. Thus she continues with what turns out to be the longest running, most entertaining, and most illuminating career in the history of movie reviewing. Readers coming to Pauline Kael for the first time will soon discover that her reviews belong in a category uniquely hers. As Anatole Broyard remarked in a review of her "Deeper into Movies" in The New York Times: "Her typical piece not only evaluates the movie itself . . . Reading a Pauline Kael review gives you a pretty good idea of the current state of our morality, our politics—and, yes, I might as well say it: our souls."