Deeper into Movies

''Deeper Into Movies'' is a collection of 1969 to 1972 movie reviews by American film critic Pauline Kael, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1973. It was the fourth collection of her columns; these were originally published in ''The New Yorker''. It won the U.S. National Book Award in category Arts and Letters."National Book Awards – 1974"
National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-10. (With acceptance speech by Kael.)

Summary

Containing reviews of individual films from the aforementioned time period, the collection also includes a long essay entitled "Numbing the Audience".

Directors

In the anthology, Kael praises the merits of then up-and-coming directors Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, in her reviews of '' MASH'', '' McCabe & Mrs. Miller'', and ''The Godfather''. She pans Stanley Kubrick and his '' A Clockwork Orange'' for its brutality and moral convolutions.

Print Status

The book is now out-of-print in the United States, but is still published in the United Kingdom by Marion Boyars Publishers, an independent publishing company.

Films reviewed

* '' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''
* ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice''
* ''Oh! What a Lovely War''
* '' The Bed Sitting Room''
* ''A Walk with Love and Death''
* '' de Sade''
* ''High School''
* ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun''
* ''The Madwoman of Chaillot''
* '' Paint Your Wagon''
* ''Lions Love''
* ''The Sterile Cuckoo''
* ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria''
* ''Duet for Cannibals''
* '' Coming Apart''
* ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips''
* '' Adalen 31''
* ''Hail, Hero!''
* ''In the Year of the Pig''
* ''Downhill Racer''
* '' The Arrangement''
* '' La Femme Infidèle''
* '' All the Loving Couples''
* '' Popcorn''
* ''The Comic''
* '' Z''
* '' Alfred the Great''
* '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?''
* '' John and Mary''
* ''Gaily, Gaily''
* '' The Reivers''
* ''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here''
* '' Topaz''
* '' Hello, Dolly!''
* '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service''
* ''Marooned''
* '' The Damned''
* ''Hamlet''
* '' A Boy Named Charlie Brown''
* ''M*A*S*H''
* ''Anne of the Thousand Days''
* ''Patton''
* '' Hospital''
* ''The Milky Way''
* '' The Molly Maguires''
* ''The Kremlin Letter''
* ''The Honeymoon Killers''
* '' A Married Couple''
* '' End of the Road''
* ''Zabriskie Point''
* ''The Looking Glass War''
* '' Loving''
* '' The Only Game in Town''
* '' Start the Revolution Without Me''
* '' The Magic Christian''
* ''Tropic of Cancer''
* ''Fellini Satyricon''
* '' The Adventurers''
* ''Airport''
* '' The Boys in the Band''
* ''Women in Love''
* ''Trash''
* ''The Baby Maker''
* ''The Great White Hope''
* '' Monte Walsh''
* ''First Love''
* ''Ice''
* ''I Never Sang for My Father''
* ''Goin' Down the Road''
* ''This Man Must Die''
* '' Little Fauss and Big Halsy''
* '' C.C. and Company''
* ''Burn!''
* ''The Twelve Chairs''
* ''Cromwell
* '' WUSA''
* ''The Owl and the Pussycat''
* ''Where's Poppa?''
* ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes''
* ''Song of Norway''
* ''Ryan's Daughter''
* '' Perfect Friday''
* '' The Pizza Triangle''
* '' Bombay Talkie''
* '' Scrooge''
* ''Groupies''
* ''I Walk the Line''
* '' The Confession''
* '' The Act of the Heart''
* ''Gimme Shelter''
* ''Little Big Man''
* '' Love Story''
* ''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion''
* ''Husbands''
* ''Alex in Wonderland''
* ''Brewster McCloud''
* '' There Was a Crooked Man...''
* ''The Music Lovers''
* '' Bed and Board''
* ''Promise at Dawn''
* '' The Last Valley''
* ''Puzzle of a Downfall Child''
* ''Little Murders''
* '' The Hour of the Furnaces''
* '' Doctors' Wives''
* ''The Sporting Club''
* ''The Garden of Delights''
* ''Claire's Knee''
* ''Wanda''
* '' A New Leaf''
* ''The Conformist''
* ''The Andromeda Strain''
* '' McCabe & Mrs. Miller''
* ''Klute''
* ''Carnal Knowledge''
* ''The Anderson Tapes''
* ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''
* ''The Last Picture Show''
* ''The Last Movie''
* ''Skin Game''
* ''The Trojan Women''
* ''Murmur of the Heart''
* '' The Début''
* '' T.R. Baskin''
* '' The French Connection''
* '' Long Ago, Tomorrow''
* ''Is There Sex After Death?''
* '' Fiddler on the Roof''
* '' El Topo''
* ''Billy Jack''
* '' Born to Win''
* '' Going Home''
* ''King Lear''
* '' Man in the Wilderness''
* ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks''

References

External links

Pauline Kael on ''A Clockwork Orange''

{{Pauline Kael

1973 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
National Book Award-winning works
Little, Brown and Company books
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books