State of the Art

As film critic of The New Yorker Pauline Kael established an unshakeable claim to prominence in her field. In this, her eighth collection, she takes in more than 100 films from 1983 - 1985 including Flashdance, Terms of Endearment, Yentl, Bizet’s Carmen, Purple Rain, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Amadeus, The Killing Fields, Stop Making Sense, Greystoke, Prizzi’s Honour, Rambo: First Blood Part 11

Some she finds wonderful, some terrible, all are reviewed in the manner or method that is uniquely Pauline Kael’s. Above all, she writes with the conviction of someone who cares about movies.