{"product_id":"9781598531718","title":"The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication","description":"\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 actor's 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Movies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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  \u003ci\u003eBreathless\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBonnie and Clyde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe  Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Tango in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNashville\u003c\/i\u003e-along with  many others, some awaiting rediscovery, all providing the occasion for  masterpieces of observation and insight, alive on every page.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173505024240,"sku":"9781598531718","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598531718_p0.jpg?v=1763815776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598531718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}