5001 Nights at the Movies: A Guide from A to Z By Pauline Kael Holt, 676 pp., $25
“She is insatiable,” Brendan Gill said of Pauline Kael in his chatty memoir Here at the New Yorker, “and wishes nothing less than to see every movie made and to give her opinion of it in print.” Miss Kael showed early signs of this distinctive tendency when she shoehorned a few hundred capsule film reviews into her collection Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. With the appearance of 5001 Nights at the Movies: A Guide from A to Z, a tombstone-sized compilation of movie listings originally published in the “Goings On about Town” department of The New Yorker, she takes a slightly megalomaniac stride toward the ultimate realization of her apparent goal.
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