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The Great Movies » (Reprint)
Authors: Roger Ebert, Mary Corliss
ISBN-13: 9780767910385, ISBN-10: 0767910389
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: Reprint
Author Biography: Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert has been the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and is the only film critic to have won a Pulitzer Prize. His television program, Ebert and Roeper, is syndicated in more than two hundred markets. His books include Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook, Roger Ebert’s Book of Film, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, and The Perfect London Walk. He lives in Chicago.
Book Synopsis
From America’s most trusted and best-known film critic, one hundred brilliant essays on the films that define for him cinematic greatness.
Library Journal
Culled from essays famed film critic Ebert has been writing biweekly for the last two years, the 100 pieces here tell us what's so great about Casablanca, The Seventh Seal, The Wizard of Oz, and more. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | ||
| Still and Moving | ||
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1 | |
| The 400 Blows | 7 | |
| 8 1/2 | 12 | |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | 17 | |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 22 | |
| All About Eve | 27 | |
| The Apartment | 32 | |
| Apocalypse Now | 37 | |
| The Apu Trilogy | 43 | |
| Battleship Potemkin | 48 | |
| Beauty and the Beast | 53 | |
| Belle de Jour | 58 | |
| The Bicycle Thief | 63 | |
| The Big Sleep | 68 | |
| Blowup | 74 | |
| Body Heat | 79 | |
| Bonnie and Clyde | 84 | |
| Bride of Frankenstein | 89 | |
| Broken Blossoms | 94 | |
| Casablanca | 99 | |
| Chinatown | 104 | |
| Citizen Kane | 109 | |
| City Lights | 118 | |
| Days of Heaven | 123 | |
| The Decalogue | 128 | |
| Detour | 133 | |
| Do the Right Thing | 138 | |
| Double Indemnity | 143 | |
| Dracula | 148 | |
| Dr. Strangelove | 154 | |
| Duck Soup | 159 | |
| E.T. | 164 | |
| The Exterminating Angel | 169 | |
| Fargo | 174 | |
| Floating Weeds | 179 | |
| Gates of Heaven | 184 | |
| The General | 189 | |
| The Godfather | 194 | |
| Gone with the Wind | 199 | |
| Grand Illusion | 204 | |
| Greed | 209 | |
| A Hard Day's Night | 214 | |
| Hoop Dreams | 219 | |
| Ikiru | 224 | |
| It's a Wonderful Life | 229 | |
| JFK | 234 | |
| La Dolce Vita | 239 | |
| The Lady Eve | 244 | |
| Last Year at Marienbad | 249 | |
| L'Atalante | 254 | |
| L'Avventura | 259 | |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 264 | |
| Le Samourai | 269 | |
| M | 274 | |
| The Maltese Falcon | 279 | |
| Manhattan | 284 | |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 289 | |
| Metropolis | 294 | |
| Mr. Hulot's Holiday | 299 | |
| My Darling Clementine | 304 | |
| My Life to Live | 309 | |
| Nashville | 314 | |
| Network | 319 | |
| The Night of the Hunter | 324 | |
| Nosferatu | 329 | |
| Notorious | 334 | |
| On the Waterfront | 339 | |
| Pandora's Box | 344 | |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | 349 | |
| Peeping Tom | 354 | |
| Persona | 359 | |
| Pickpocket | 364 | |
| Pinocchio | 369 | |
| Psycho | 374 | |
| Pulp Fiction | 380 | |
| Raging Bull | 385 | |
| Red River | 390 | |
| Schindler's List | 395 | |
| The Seven Samurai | 400 | |
| The Seventh Seal | 405 | |
| The Shawshank Redemption | 410 | |
| The Silence of the Lambs | 415 | |
| Singin' in the Rain | 420 | |
| Some Like It Hot | 425 | |
| Star Wars | 430 | |
| Sunset Blvd | 436 | |
| Sweet Smell of Success | 441 | |
| Swing Time | 446 | |
| Taxi Driver | 451 | |
| The Third Man | 456 | |
| Trouble in Paradise | 461 | |
| Un Chien Andalou | 466 | |
| The "Up" Documentaries | 471 | |
| Vertigo | 477 | |
| The Wild Bunch | 482 | |
| Wings of Desire | 487 | |
| The Wizard of Oz | 492 | |
| Woman in the Dunes | 497 | |
| A Woman Under the Influence | 502 | |
| Written on the Wind | 507 |
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