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.

First edition cover

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

External links

• Pauline Kael on A Clockwork Orange