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America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents two hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made in this two-book collection containing THE GREAT MOVIES and THE GREAT MOVIES II.
Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies Collection features two 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 enthusiasm–or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing.
Ebert’s 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 scholar’s erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. This collection 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.
The Great Movies II includes: The Adventures of Robin Hood • The Color Purple • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • In Cold Blood • Leaving Las Vegas • The Manchurian Candidate • Moonstruck • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Planes, Trains and Automobiles • The Producers • Raiders of the Lost Ark • Rear Window • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • The Thin Man • Unforgiven • and eighty-five more films.
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About Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times. His reviews are syndicated in more than 200 newspapers worldwide, and he is known for his work with fellow movie critic Gene Siskel. He began working with Robert Roeper after Siskel’s death in 1999. Ebert is the author of more than twenty books, including The Great Movies, Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Movie Year Book, and Ebert’s Bigger Little Movie Glossary, many of which have been bestsellers. His memoir, Life Itself, was a New York Times bestseller. Ebert is the only film critic honored with a start on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He lives with his wife in Chicago.
About Jonathan Todd Ross
Jonathan Todd Ross is a writer and an Earphones and Audie Award–winning voice actor. He has lent his voice to numerous anime television shows, including Yu-Gi-Oh! and Sonic X.