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.
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 KidBob & Carol & Ted & AliceOh! What a Lovely War The Bed Sitting RoomA Walk with Love and Deathde SadeHigh SchoolThe Royal Hunt of the SunThe Madwoman of ChaillotPaint Your WagonLions LoveThe Sterile CuckooThe Secret of Santa VittoriaDuet for CannibalsComing ApartGoodbye, Mr. ChipsAdalen 31Hail, Hero!In the Year of the PigDownhill RacerThe ArrangementLa Femme InfidèleAll the Loving CouplesPopcornThe ComicZAlfred the GreatThey Shoot Horses, Don't They?John and MaryGaily, GailyThe ReiversTell Them Willie Boy Is HereTopazHello, Dolly!On Her Majesty's Secret ServiceMaroonedThe DamnedHamletA Boy Named Charlie BrownM*A*S*HAnne of the Thousand DaysPattonHospitalThe Milky WayThe Molly MaguiresThe Kremlin LetterThe Honeymoon KillersA Married CoupleEnd of the RoadZabriskie PointThe Looking Glass WarLovingThe Only Game in TownStart the Revolution Without MeThe Magic ChristianTropic of CancerFellini SatyriconThe AdventurersAirportThe Boys in the BandWomen in LoveTrashThe Baby MakerThe Great White HopeMonte WalshFirst LoveIceI Never Sang for My FatherGoin' Down the RoadThis Man Must DieLittle Fauss and Big HalsyC.C. and CompanyBurn!The Twelve ChairsCromwellWUSAThe Owl and the PussycatWhere's Poppa?The Private Life of Sherlock HolmesSong of NorwayRyan's DaughterPerfect FridayThe Pizza TriangleBombay TalkieScroogeGroupiesI Walk the LineThe Confession The Act of the HeartGimme ShelterLittle Big ManLove StoryInvestigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionHusbandsAlex in WonderlandBrewster McCloudThere Was a Crooked Man...The Music LoversBed and BoardPromise at DawnThe Last ValleyPuzzle of a Downfall ChildLittle MurdersThe Hour of the FurnacesDoctors' WivesThe Sporting ClubThe Garden of DelightsClaire's KneeWandaA New LeafThe ConformistThe Andromeda StrainMcCabe & Mrs. MillerKluteCarnal KnowledgeThe Anderson TapesSunday Bloody SundayThe Last Picture ShowThe Last MovieSkin GameThe Trojan WomenMurmur of the HeartThe DébutT.R. BaskinThe French ConnectionLong Ago, TomorrowIs There Sex After Death?Fiddler on the RoofEl TopoBilly JackBorn to WinGoing HomeKing LearMan in the Wilderness