Deeper into Movies

It was the fourth collection of her columns; these were originally published in The New Yorker.

It won the U.S. National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.

[1] Containing reviews of individual films from the aforementioned time period, the collection also includes a long essay entitled "Numbing the Audience".

In the anthology, Kael praises the merits of then up-and-coming directors Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, in her reviews of MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and The Godfather.

She pans Stanley Kubrick and his A Clockwork Orange for its brutality and moral convolutions.