The Great Movies

From America's 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 Moviescollects 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. 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. Wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, film curator at the Museum of Modern Art,The Great Moviesis 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 Moviesincludes: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.

<b>Roger Ebert</b> has been the film critic of the <i>Chicago Sun-Times </i>since 1967, and is the only film critic to have won a Pulitzer Prize. His television program, <i>Ebert and Roeper</i>, is syndicated in more than two hundred markets. His books include <i>Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook</i>, <i>Roger Ebert’s Book of Film, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie,</i> and <i>The Perfect London Walk</i>. He lives in Chicago.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>