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''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.〔 ("National Book Awards – 1974" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-10. (With acceptance speech by Kael.)〕 Containing reviews of individual films from the aforementioned time period, the collection also includes a long essay entitled "Numbing the Audience". 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. 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'' - " a glorified vacuum" * ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' - " the liveliest American comedy so far this year - this movie is made up of what was left out of the optimistic Doris Day comedies - Dyan Cannon is most effective (really brilliant)." * ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' - " lethal - the small-mindedness of the approach destroys feeling " * ''The Bed Sitting Room'' - " an apocalyptic farce - but there's no spirit, no rage, nothing left but ghastly, incessant sinking-island humour." * ''A Walk with Love and Death'' - "a tale of chivalry which is at times as brutal as ''The Seventh Seal'' - it has an unusual integrity of vision." * ''de Sade'' - " a rotten movie " * ''High School'' - "so extraordinarily evocative that a feeling of empathy with the students floods over us - Wiseman is probably the most sophisticated intelligence to enter the documentary field in recent years. " * ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun'' - " could turn into a classic of the hooting variety. Christopher Plummer, hissing and prancing, is a wickedly funny Inca king - " * ''The Madwoman of Chaillot'' - "Jean Giraudoux's fragile play is doubtful screen material at best, and Anhalt's updating and message-mongering destroyed at the outset whatever chance it might have had." * ''Paint Your Wagon'' - "how can we watch Clint Eastwood in a musical? - He's controlled in such an uninteresting way " * ''Lions Love'' - "first American feature by Agnès Varda -visually it's very pretty - but it lacks a sense of the fitness of things - true sensibility" * ''The Sterile Cuckoo'' -" directed very simply, but with remarkable and sustained ''tact'', by Alan J. Pakula; - Pookie Adams (Liza Minnelli) is one of those brilliant, disordered, and dissociated kids - Miss Minnelli's sad, quizzical persona - the gangling body and the features that look too big for the little face - are ideal equipment for the role." * ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'' -" a horible kind of picturesque anti-Fascist opéra-bouffe bacchanal" * ''Duet for Cannibals'' - "one more sealed-off-sex-games-and-guess-what's-real movie. - Miss Sontag is often a thoughtful writer, but she has never had much dramatic sense - and she certainly doesn't get a lot of drama going here." * ''Coming Apart'' - " a sex-exploitation-plus-hangups-movie." * ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' - " Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark play together so well that one smiles, wanting to accept the romance, wanting to believe in this middle-class fairy tale." * ''Adalen 31'' - "Bo Widerberg has made ''Adalen 31'' with great skill and artistry and intelligence, yet it's uninspired - it's fundamentally didactic and academic." * ''Hail, Hero!'' - "conglomerate-made "youth" soap opera" * ''In the Year of the Pig'' - "assemblage of news footage and interviews that presents an overview of the Vietnam War - it provides a historical background and puts the events of the last few years into an intelligible framework." * ''Downhill Racer'' - " Michael Ritchie making his début as a movie director - shows some talent, and some wit, in handling the actors in the semi-documentary situations." * ''The Arrangement'' - " painfully bad in a way that isn't fun." * ''La Femme Infidèle'' - "exquisitelty detailed, impeccably acted, stunningly directed suspense story about adultery and passion among the bourgeoisie - I only wish it were fundamentally more interesting." * ''Futz'' - "I sat there to the repulsive end. It's still not easy to explain why it's awful -" * ''All the Loving Couples'' - "sex-exploitation film" * ''Popcorn'' - * ''The Comic'' - " an emaciated little picture" * ''Z'' - "a political film with a purpose - it derives from American gangster movies and prison pictures and anti-fascist melodramas of the forties (''Cornered'', ''Crossfire'', ''Brute Force (1947 film)'', ''All the King's Men'', ''Edge of Darkness'', ''The Cross of Lorraine'', et al ) - ''Z'' is based on the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos about the assassination of Gregorios Lambrakis, in Salonika, in May 1963 - a hell of an exciting movie" * ''Alfred the Great'' -"appears to be not about the king who burned the cakes but about a movie studio that has been burning money." * ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)'' -" Gloria is played by Jane Fonda - the strongest role an American actress has had on the screen this year - Fonda goes all the way with it -() stands a good chance of personifying American tensions and dominating our movies in the seventies as Bette Davis did in the thirties " * ''John and Mary (film)'' - " a trifle" * ''Gaily, Gaily'' - " Norman Jewison tries hard, but he just doesn't have the feeling for Hecht's Chicago " * ''The Reivers (film)'' - " the script has great charm - of the ''Our Town'' and ''Ah, Wilderness'' sort, - " "I wish ''The Reivers'' were better done, but it does make one feel good." * ''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here'' - "There isn't a character who doesn't make points and stand for various political forces" * ''Topaz'' - - "the same damned picture Alfred Hitchcock's been making since the thirties, and it's getting longer, slower, and duller." * ''Hello, Dolly! (film)'' - " Dolly - Barbra Streisand - in the second half of the movie she energizes and transforms the prancing rubbish." * ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)'' - " marvellous fun " * ''Marooned (film)'' -" a sci-fi space epic, is total, straight Dullsville" * ''The Damned'' - " I have rarely seen a picture I enjoyed less, - a ponderously perverse spectacle by Luchino Visconti" * ''Hamlet'' - " Hamlet's speeches, as Williamson delivers them, lack beauty." * ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' - " a pathetically limp animation feature" * ''M *A *S *H'' - " a marvellously unstable comedy, a tough, funny and sophisticated burlesque of military attitudes - It's a sick joke, but it's also generous and romantic - an erratic, episodic film, full of the pleasures of the unexpected." * ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' - " well acted and with much sharper dialogue than the original Maxwell Anderson play" * ''Patton'' - " holds out on us - because we aren't given enough information to evaluate Patton's actions." * ''Hospital'' - " documentary by Frederick Wiseman -as open and revealing as filmed experience has ever been. The movie was made at Metropolitan Hospital in New York - the doctors and nurses are not unctuous in that fake-"professional" fashion of private hospitals () their occasional crudeness, even roughness, seems to be part of a recognition of the facts of life for the poor in a big city." * ''The Milky Way'' - " a guided tour of heresies () relaxed parody of religious doctrines and excesses." * ''The Molly Maguires'' - " an impressive failure - we don't quite believe any of it." * ''The Kremlin Letter'' - " a complicated plot that loses one at the outset." * ''The Honeymoon Killers'' - " based on the lives of the multiple murderers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez - it's simple minded - a primitive version of old Republic pictures " * ''A Married Couple'' - " Allan King's actuality drama - What is abandoned in this kind of filmmaking is imagination" * ''End of the Road'' - " the filmmakers throw in every fancy trick they can steal - It's intelligence that's missing" * ''Zabriskie Point'' - " Michelangelo Antonioni - winds up with an America as false and unconvincing as if it had been manufactured in a studio by foreign craftsmen. Though he uses actual locations, ''Zabriskie Point'' is as far off America as the Italian Westerns shot in Spain." * ''The Looking Glass War''- " fails at the premier level of drama - basic involvement." * ''Loving'' - " an unusual movie - compassionate but unsentimental. () Irvin Kershner is fortunate in having as his middle-class anti-hero George Segal, - He has perhaps the warmest presence of any current screen actor. As the wife Eva Marie Saint gives a stunning performance "" * ''The Only Game in Town'' - "a sluggish star vehicle of the old, bad days" * ''Start the Revolution Without Me'' - "a spoof of swashbucklers - It's worth mentioning mainly for Hugh Griffith, who is oddly poignant as a bufuddled Louis XVI" * ''The Magic Christian (film)'' - "contemptible" * ''Tropic of Cancer'' - "much less than the book" * ''Fellini Satyricon'' - "a terrible movie - Somewhere along the line - Fellini gave in to the luxurious basking in sin that has always had such extraordinary public appeal . He became the new De Mille - a purveyor of the glamour of wickedness." * ''The Adventurers (1970 film)'' -"Mr. Levine and Paramount Pictures are said to be cutting a half hour from the version I saw; they should keep cutting until there's nothing left." * ''Airport'' - "doesn't work" * ''The Boys in the Band'' - " it's a theatre piece that has lost its theatrically satisfying form, and what was bad is now worse, while what was passable because it "played well" doesn't play so well on screen." * ''Women in Love'' - * ''Trash'' - * ''The Baby Maker'' - * ''The Great White Hope'' - * ''Monte Walsh'' - * ''First Love (1970 film)'' - * ''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 (film)'' * ''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' - * ''Husbands (film)'' - * ''Alex in Wonderland'' - * ''Brewster McCloud'' - * ''There Was a Crooked Man...'' - * ''The Music Lovers'' - * ''Bed and Board (1970 film)'' - * ''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 (1971 film)'' - * ''King Lear'' - * ''Man in the Wilderness'' - * ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' - 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deeper into Movies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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