
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.[1]
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.[2]
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
 
References
- ↑ "National Book Awards – 1974". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-10. (With acceptance speech by Kael.)
 - ↑ "Deeper into Movies". Marion Boyars Publishers. Retrieved March 31, 2022.