Jana Prikryl is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. Her writing has appeared in The Nation and The New Yorker. (October 2012)
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Waking Up at the Movies
October 11, 2012
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
by Pauline Kael, edited by Sanford Schwartz
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark
by Brian Kellow
When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
by Dave Kehr
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The Genius of Buster
June 9, 2011
The Best of Buster twelve feature-length and twelve short films by Buster Keaton,
A Hard Act to Follow a documentary directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (1987)
Buster Keaton: Interviews
edited by Kevin W. Sweeney
The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for M-G-M, Educational Pictures, and Columbia
by James L. Neibaur
Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts, 1934–37 Kino, DVD, $34.95
The General a film directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman (1926)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. a film directed by Charles F. Reisner (1928)
Sherlock, Jr./Three Ages films directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline (1924/1923)
Our Hospitality a film directed by Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone (1923)
The Short Films Collection, 1920–1923 nineteen films directed by Buster Keaton and others
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How to Beat a Dead Octopus
April 7, 2011
It’s been argued that poetry is an ailing art—indeed, National Poetry Month itself often seems to me a defibrillator desperately applied to the limp body of lyric poetry, while the world’s novels and memoirs and tweets and video games mill around, loud, vertical, and indifferent—but reading the last five decades of poems in the Review is a pretty good antidote to such anxieties.