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# Conversations with Pauline Kael (Literary Conversations Series) Paperback – September 2, 1996

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    Terrific book, please update it!
  

*by J***J on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2005*

Pauline Kael was a brilliant interview subject. She could often, in just a few words, get to the essence of what was wrong or right with a movie in as piercing a way as her longer reviews.  This book includes a number of early interviews with her and a few from after she retired from The New Yorker.  Those last interviews are perhaps the most valuable because you get her insights on movies that she never got to review in print.  You also get a fascinating look at her life and tastes outside of film and some revealing comments about working for The New Yorker.My fervent wish is that this book be updated.  The last interview in the book is from c. 1995, and she gave several more interviews before her death in 2001.  I hope desperately that U. Mississippi Press will collect these and reissue the book.  It's a travesty that so much of Kael's writing is out of print, and this is a valuable resource that could be even more valuable with an update.

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    A Terrific Book
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2003*

This will be a short review because there's no point in trying persuade people who aren't fond of Kael. For the rest of us - fans and those willing to try her - this is a wonderful read. Kael's idiom was deceptively casual when she wrote, so these interviews aren't so far off from her critical writings.It's surprising the overall rating for this book isn't higher. I often browse the interviews here. Kael was so witty and so insightful, there are few books I could recommend more. And she was so eloquent - reading these pieces is aesthetically pleasing.Kael's the greatest film critic there's been, and as she wrote how she spoke, this book is a welcome addition to her oeuvre. Do read it.

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    A good book for those who are Kael-hungry.
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 1998*

Pauline Kael gave us hundreds of excellently written and thought provoking  movie reviews, and yet since she retired from The New Yorker, there is  still an intense yearning to hear what she has to say about recent movies.  One never wants her to stop writing.  This book is an entertaining  collection of articles and interviews that were collected through the  years, many of them taken from hard to find magazines.  The wonderful thing  that this book shows about Pauline Kael is that she talks almost exactly  like she writes--an interviewer may ask her a relatively simple question,  and she'll answer in her ever-playful way that will take up at least a half  page of text.  She has a terrific sense of verbal rhythm as well as her  famous "conversational" writing style.  Those who are new to her  work should read her "Deeper Into Movies" and  "Reeling", the two books that cover what she feels is the most  innovative period in film history--the early to mid-seventies.

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