Going Steady

Film Writings, 1968-69

By: Pauline Kael

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Paperback | 1 January 1994

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In "Going Steady" Kael has deliberately kept her film reviews in chronological order so that the reader can follow 'what was evolving in film during a crucial period of social and aesthetic change' at the end of the sixties. From Godard's "Weekend" to Kubrick's "2001, " via "Barbarella," "Bullitt" and "Yellow Submarine."

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* These pieces were published in the New Yorker since Miss Kael became their winter resident reviewer in January of 1968. Her thinking is, as usual, Cinemascopic, a lot of pans and few double takes, in sharp focus and capable of zooming in for a devastating close-up - on Mailer's Wild 90 - "the new celebrity-party-game movie" or Sandy Dennis in Sweet November - "She's an icy little rabbit Babbitt." The author's writing easily ranges from the subtle, perceptive, smooth analysis of-Godard (her favorite GODard) to wonderfully forthright blasts at, Say, the sentimentalism in "The Two of Us" - "There was that arch stuff between the old man and his wife about vegetarianism, and then there was that damned dog. I believe that my own dogs are prescient, but I can't stand prescience in other people's dogs..." There's a remarkable piece on the influence of Griffith; the rest are about today's fads, follies and forerunners. Prescient views by one of our most discerning, concerned critics. (Kirkus Reviews)

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