Roger Ebert's Book of Film From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film

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ISBN: 9780393040005 | 0393040003
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/17/1996

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Thumbs up for this lavish and entertaining anthology of writing on film, assembled by one of America's best-loved movie critics. For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 films that touch on every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing.

Introduction
From A Death in the Family	p. 17
"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"	p. 20
From The Bachelor of Arts	p. 27
"The Wizard of Oz"	p. 30
From Another Day of Life	p. 38
From The Moviegoer	p. 40
From Moving Places	p. 43
From The Last Picture Show	p. 50
From The Phantom Empire	p. 60
Rudolph Valentino	p. 71
Greta Garbo	p. 74
"They Can't Take That Away from Me"	p. 78
From W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes	p. 82
From The Road to Hollywood	p. 86
From By Myself	p. 88
"Bogie in Excelsis"	p. 92
From Suspects	p. 104
James Dean	p. 110
From The Films of My Life	p. 116
"Ava: Life in the Afternoon"	p. 126
From Selected Letters	p. 133
"John Wayne: A Love Song"	p. 137
"Loverboy of the Bourgeoisie"	p. 144
"Setsuko Hara"	p. 149
"Suzie Creamcheese Speaks"	p. 152
"A Beautiful Child"	p. 161
From Notes	p. 173
"Lee Marvin"	p. 179
From Kinski Uncut	p. 187
John Belushi	p. 195
"The Wahoo Boy"	p. 203
"The Island of Hollywood"	p. 216
From Flying through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants	p. 232
From Step Right Up	p. 237
From Picture	p. 242
From Get Shorty	p. 249
From The Player	p. 257
From Wannabe	p. 260
"Mae West"	p. 271
From Hollywood Babylon	p. 286
"The Awful Fate of the Sex Goddess"	p. 291
"Blue Notes"	p. 297
"Last Tango in Paris"	p. 307
"Tango, Last Tango"	p. 314
From The Godfather	p. 323
"Edison's Vitascope Cheered"	p. 339
"The Great Train Robbery"	p. 339
Lumiere	p. 342
A Conversation on Film with Leo Tolstoy	p. 345
"The Nickelodeons"	p. 347
"The Photoplay of Action"	p. 355
From My Autobiography	p. 359
John Bunny	p. 362
"Pabst and Lulu"	p. 366
Mary Pickford	p. 373
Gloria Swanson	p. 377
"Keaton at Venice"	p. 379
"I'm Sorry I Made Me Cry"	p. 388
"Minnie and Mickey"	p. 397
"The Western: or the American Film par Excellence"	p. 400
"The Gangster as Tragic Hero"	p. 407
"Underground Films"	p. 412
"The Imagination of Disaster"	p. 423
"Libby 'Noir'"	p. 436
From My Last Sigh	p. 441
From The Magic Lantern	p. 444
"My Own Methods"	p. 447
From A Life in Movies	p. 453
From Run-through	p. 457
From Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges	p. 463
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"	p. 470
From An Open Book	p. 473
From My Life and My Films	p. 479
From Something Like an Autobiography	p. 482
Stanley Kubrick	p. 489
"A Long Time on the Little Road"	p. 493
From Fellini on Fellini	p. 498
From One Man Tango	p. 502
Mel Brooks	p. 511
From POPism	p. 518
From Sculpting in Time	p. 527
From Scorsese on Scorsese	p. 531
From Do the Right Thing	p. 536
"Frequently Asked Questions about Quentin Tarantino"	p. 548
From A Child of the Century	p. 555
"Who Makes the Movies?"	p. 569
From Prater Violet	p. 581
From Selected Letters	p. 594
From Hollywood	p. 597
"Memories of a Film Critic"	p. 611
From On Movies	p. 619
From Confessions of a Cultist	p. 623
"Why I'm Not Bored"	p. 628
From How to Go to the Movies	p. 632
"Matters of Photogenics"	p. 641
"Movie Boners"	p. 649
From The Strongman	p. 651
From Behind the Scenes of "Psycho"	p. 654
"The Laws of Cartoon Motion"	p. 660
From Something Like an Autobiography	p. 662
From On Directing Film	p. 668
"Crazy Sunday"	p. 677
"The Movie People"	p. 692
"If You Want to Make Movies ..."	p. 702
From Hollywood	p. 711
From What Makes Sammy Run?	p. 722
From As Time Goes By	p. 728
From The Day of the Locust	p. 732
From The Memoirs of an Amnesiac	p. 737
From The Groucho Letters	p. 750
From You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again	p. 754
From Children of Light	p. 768
"Tour of L.A."	p. 770
"The Greatest Films of All Time" (Sight and Sound)	p. 779
Acknowledgments	p. 783
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Roger Ebert's Book of Film From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film

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