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Title	:	5001 Nights at the Movies (The Film Writings)
Author	:	Pauline Kael
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 960 pages
Published	:	May 15th 1991 by Holt Paperbacks (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Culture. Film. Reference. Nonfiction. Media Tie In

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Original Title:	5001 Nights at the Movies: An A - Z Guide for Cinema, TV and Video Viewers
ISBN:	0805013679 (ISBN13: 9780805013672)
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Series:	The Film Writings

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From The Godfather to Night of the Living Dead, film critic Pauline Kael wrote the most thought-provoking reviews of all time. Reading Kael is like having a heroin addiction. Once the addiction occurs, there is no turning back.

Hard to dispute Kael's standing as a premier movie critic though, of course, one can always dispute her opnions of particular movies. A great book to keep around for quick browsing. At times, Kael comes off as condescending but overall her insights, even when I disagree, were valid and well written.

This book took me over a year to finish (slow and read in fits and starts) and it was time well spent on all those short subway rides. I love reading good film criticism. In this age there is an inundation of viewpoints and critiques but rarely are there any worth actually reading. Most are sound bytes without any real bite. Not so with Pauline Kael. Kael is considered one of the most influential film critics and for good reason. Her opinion might not be the most popular, pc or even match my own

Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached movies emotionally, with a strongly colloquial writing style. She is often regarded as the most influential American film critic of her day and made a lasting impression on other major critics

Withholding personal movie opinions is brutal while reading Kael, but necessary. Yet for pure spirit, invented vocabulary and hilarious (and extremely personal) observations, nobody writes like Kael about movies. The adventurous nature of her writing is as joyful as it is caustic. She hates some of my favorite film-makers, yet I still read her remarks. This entertaining collection of blurbs only inspires you to read the full length reviews.

Well, I've sort of read it all, in the spirit that Kael sort of wrote it all (as she owned up in the introduction). The film review shorts here were in many cases hers, but not all. And I've probably read them all, or nearly all, by now. But it's great to pull out for a quick, but often authoritative take, when watching an old movie.

The idea of an extensive edition of Kael reviews is seducing, but it doesn't work here.If you cram 5 001 reviews, ranging from 50 to 300 words (magazine length) and from early century to 1990, you will hit two hurdles: 1) most readers won't have seen or care about most of the movies discussed and 2) the pieces won't be long enough to render them interesting. I love Pauline Kael, but she can't convince me to watch a 1938 movie starring Lauren Bacall in 112 words. I've skimmed to the titles I