5001 Nights at the Movies Pauline Kael
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

I rediscovered this film from reading Pauline Kael's 5001 Nights At The Movies, which I do suggest for anyone looking for that “new” find on a Friday night. Continuing a closer look at this I first read Pauline Kael's film criticism not long after finishing the paper that had led me to Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan. As Pauline Kael puts it in 5001 Nights at the Movies,. 307) but, in 5001 Nights at the Movies, chastised it for being insipid and boring. As it should, reading Brian Kellow's recent bio of film critic Pauline Kael made me want to read more of her work. My second reference is a tattered Pauleine Kael - 5001 Nights at the Movies. Audiences in 1944 must have been more than satisfied: The Miracle of Morgans Creek was the biggest grossing movie of the year. Alas, Kael's review was not included in her collection For Keeps, so I've never read it in all its glory and her only comment in 5001 Nights at the Movies is that it is "Gush made respectable by millions of dollars tastefully wasted. I could cheat here and cite 5001 Nights at the Movies, but in truth I didn't get that book until much later and I have been missing my copy for years--probably wound up with an ex-boyfriend. But all four of these camp-fests are enjoyably unpretentious hokum. €One minute she is just a little girl in pigtails lost in a great big raincoat, and the next minute she is a many-curved siren crooning 'Give Me a Little Kiss, Will You, Huh?' ….”. I first became aware of Kael as a young film buff, probably thirteen or so, from 5001 Nights at the Movies, a collection of her New Yorker capsule reviews. 5001 Nights at the Movies 1991 | 960 | ISBN: 0805013679 | EPUB + PDF | 2 MB + 7 Mb Smart, funny, and unforgettable, Pauline Kael is the most interesting and influential film critic in Ameri. Jon, I just read what Pauline Kael said about the film in her “5001 Nights at the Movies. My third is an impulse to phone John Lekich. Reeling and 5001 Nights at the Movies by Pauline Kael.