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Going Steady: Film Writings 1968-1969 is the third collection of movie
reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, comprising the years 1968-1969, when
she first began her film-reviewing duties at The New Yorker.
The collection for the most part consists of reviews of individual films,
but includes one long essay entitled "Trash, Art, and the Movies", perhaps
the closest Kael comes to a manifesto defining her personal aesthetics in
regards to movies. In the essay, Kael dissects, compares, and contrasts the
merits of "trash" films that are nevertheless entertaining, as well as
"art" films that are uninteresting. In doing so, Kael lambastes "art"
movies such as Kubrick's A Space Odyssey, concluding her treatment of that
particular film by declaring: "If big film directors are to get credit for
doing badly what others have been doing brilliantly for years with no
money, just because they've put it on a big screen, then businessmen are
greater than po
