I Lost It at the Movies by Pauline Kael 1965 Second Printing Hardcover

This is an early printing of Pauline Kael’s landmark first book, I Lost It at the Movies—a foundational work that helped shape modern American film criticism. The collection features Kael’s influential essays from Sight and Sound, Film Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and Kulchur, offering sharp, witty, and provocative commentary on cinema and culture in the 1950s and early 1960s.
1965 Second Printing Early printings of Kael’s debut are increasingly scarce and highly collectible.
Original Dust Jacket The jacket is worn but present—many surviving copies lack it entirely.

Ideal for: • Film students & scholars — a key primary source in film criticism. • Collectors of cinema history — early Kael editions are hard to find. • Fans of Pauline Kael and New Yorker–style criticism — essential reading. • Archivists & educators — excellent for film libraries and media studies programs.