The Great Movies
The Great Movies …
by: Roger Ebert
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From Americas most trusted and best-known film critic, one hundred brilliant essays on the films that define for him cinematic greatness.
For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called “The Great Movies,” in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to that film with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasmor perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Eberts selections range widely across genres, periods, and nationalities, and from the highest achievements in film art to justly beloved and wildly successful popular entertainments. Roger Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for our most important form of popular art with a scholars erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions, an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again.
The Great Movies includes: All About Eve Bonnie and Clyde Casablanca Citizen Kane The Godfather Jaws La Dolce Vita Metropolis On the Waterfront Psycho The Seventh Seal Sweet Smell of Success Taxi Driver The Third Man The Wizard of Oz and eighty-five more films.
From the Hardcover edition.
June 2nd, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Great Introduction to World Cinema!
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is starting out with an interest in cinema. What’s great is it’s not just a list of Roger’s favourite films but rather film’s that are…
June 15th, 2011 at 12:50 am
A Book That Has Both Widened My Knowledge and Deepened My Appreciation of Cinema
Movies have been a passion of mine ever since I was a small child and I have seen more movies than most people my age have even heard of.
June 6th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Expected pleasures and few surprises from this populist critic
I have a long history with Roger Ebert’s criticism; growing up in the midwest in the era of “Star Wars”, I remember Siskel and Ebert’s “Sneak Previews” (later “At the Movies”) as…
June 4th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Great Book for Movie buff
I gave this book as gift to my son, who loves film (in his twenties now) who grew up with good movies, and yet is still young enough to have never heard of many great ones of the…
May 29th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Two Thumbs Up
Roger Ebert has become an established film critic, more because of his picks than his pans. The Thumbs-up guy shares a wealth of insights that ties the stories together, gives you…
June 11th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
At least it’s worth a look…
I don’t see how this is “film-school in a book”. I’ve learned more about films just by watching them and acknowledging them for myself.
May 24th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
A Great, Accessible Resource On Great Cinema.
“The Great Movies” by world-renowned film critic Roger Ebert is a highly valuable resource. In this beautiful volume of film scholarship, Ebert brings across a true love of film…
May 29th, 2011 at 8:22 am
Film School In A Book
I couldn’t believe how many of the films listed in this book I had never heard of before, let alone never seen.
June 13th, 2011 at 12:44 am
Movies you should see, things you should know.
Ebert is the most erudite of the film reviewers making money plying their understanding of the world.