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Movie Love (1991) is the tenth and last collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael and...

Movie Love (1991) is the tenth and last collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael and covers the period from October 1988 to March 1991, when she chose to retire from her regular film reviewing duties at The New Yorker . In the "Author's Note" that begins the anthology, Kael writes that this period had "not been a time of great moviemaking fervor", but "what has been sustaining is that there is so much to love in movies besides great moviemaking." She reviews 85 films in this final collection. She gives rich praise to directors and performers she admires - in this collection for example, Pedro Almodovar; 'Generalissimo Francisco Franco kept the lid on Spain for 36 years; he died in 1975 and Almodovar is part of what jumped out of the box. The most original pop writer-director of the 1980's; he's Jean-Luc Godard with a human face - a happy face.' And Chet Baker in Let's Get Lost; " He's singing a torch song after the flame is gone; he's selling the romance of burnout." Perhaps pre-eminently in this collection she praises Brian de Palma's Casualties of War; "Some movies - La Grande Illusion, and Shoeshine come to mind, - can affect us in more direct, emotional ways than