Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Film Writings 1965-1967
By (author) Pauline Kael
Paperback (Published)
(October 1973)
ISBN: 9780714509839
5.28 x 8.03 inches
Price: $14.95
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A Note on the Title
The words “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this. Pauline Kael
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is virtually an informal history of the movies. This volume deals with over 300 of them, some essay length, some in short sharp paragraphs. From Bonnie and Clyde to Blow Up, Miss Kael praises, damns and displays her extraordinary grasp of films, film-makers, techniques and film history.
Table of Contents
I TRENDS
The Creative Business 3
A Sense of Disproportion: The Sand Pebbles, Grand Prix, Funeral in Berlin, The Quiller Memorandum
Movie Brutalists
So Off-beat We Lose the Beat: Georgy Girl, Morgan!, The Red Desert
Spoofing: Cat Ballou
Tourist in the City of Youth: Blow-Up
Saddle Sore: El Dorado, The War Wagon, The Way West Bonnie and Clyde
II. THE MAKING OF THE GROUP
III. REVIEWS, 1965-1967
Night Games
The Comedy of Depravity: Accident
The Shameless Old Lady
Band of Outsiders
It's a Great Technique, but What Can You Do with It?:
The Knack and Help!
The Moment of Truth
Madame X
Before the Revolution
A Man and a Woman
Masculine Feminine
Epics: The Bible, Hawaii, Dr.Zhivago
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to theForum
A Shaggy-Man Story: Boudu Saved from Drowning
The New Anne Bancroft, Already Boxed In: Seven Women and The Slender Thread
The Living Library: Fahrenheit 451
Southwestern: The Chase
A Man for All Seasons
Fantastic Voyage
Darling
Zorba the Greek and The Pawnbroker
The Glamourof Failure: La Guerre est finie
10:30 P.M. Summer
Ulysses
Persona
Laurence Olivier as Othello
The Sound of . . The Sound of Music and The Singing Nun
Movies for Young Children: Born Free and Around the World Under the Sea
IV. CAREERS
Marlon Brando: An American Hero
Orson Welles: There Ain't NoWay
Falstaf
The Intentions of Stanley Kramer: Ship of Fools
V. THE MOVIE PAST
Movies on Television
Notes on 280 Movies: From Adam's Rib to Zazie
INDEX
One of America’s foremost film critics, Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991 and among other accolades, won a National Book Award in 1974 for Deeper into Movies. She has been credited with reinventing the art of film criticism.
- By (author) Pauline Kael
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