I Lost It at the Movies

I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week.

Introduction: Zeitgeist and Poltergeist; Or, Are Movies Going to Pieces?	p. 3
Broadsides	p. 29
Fantasies of the Art-House Audience	p. 31
The Glamour of Delinquency	p. 44
Commitment and the Straitjacket	p. 62
Hud, Deep in the Divided Heart of Hollywood	p. 78
Retrospective Reviews: Movies Remembered with Pleasure	p. 95
The Earrings of Madame de ... (1953)	p. 97
The Golden Coach (1953)	p. 101
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)	p. 105
La Grande Illusion (1937)	p. 108
Forbidden Games (1952)	p. 111
Shoeshine (1947)	p. 114
The Beggar's Opera (1953)	p. 116
The Seven Samurai (1954)	p. 119
Broadcasts and Reviews, 1961-1963	p. 125
Breathless, and the Daisy Miller Doll	p. 127
The Cousins	p. 132
Canned Americana	p. 136
West Side Story	p. 141
L'Avventura	p. 148
One, Two, Three	p. 150
The Mark	p. 155
Kagi	p. 160
The Innocents	p. 163
A View from the Bridge, and a Note on The Children's Hour	p. 172
The Day the Earth Caught Fire	p. 176
The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties: La Notte, Last Year at Marienbad, La Dolce Vita	p. 179
A Taste of Honey	p. 196
Victim	p. 201
Lolita	p. 203
Shoot the Piano Player	p. 210
Jules and Jim	p. 216
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man	p. 222
Fires on the Plain (Nobi)	p. 225
Replying to Listeners	p. 228
Billy Budd	p. 234
Yojimbo	p. 239
Devi	p. 245
How the Long Distance Runner Throws the Race	p. 256
8 1/2 Confessions of a Movie Director	p. 261
Polemics	p. 267
Is There a Cure for Film Criticism? Or, Some Unhappy Thoughts on Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality	p. 269
Circles and Squares	p. 292
Morality Plays Right and Left	p. 319
Index	p. 347
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