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From America's most trusted and
highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the
films that define cinematic greatness.
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great
Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects
100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical
appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history
that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes
and renewed enthusiasm—or perhaps to an avid first-time
viewing. Neither a snob nor a shill, Ebert manages in these
essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for today's
most important form of popular art with a scholar's erudition
and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Once again
wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, former
film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies
II is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions,
an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again
and again.
Films featured in The Great Movies II
12 Angry Men · The Adventures of Robin Hood ·
Alien · Amadeus · Amarcord · Annie Hall ·
Au Hasard, Balthazar · The Bank Dick · Beat the
Devil · Being There · The Big Heat · The Birth
of a Nation · The Blue Kite · Bob le Flambeur ·
Breathless · The Bridge on the River Kwai · Bring
Me the Head of Alfredo García · Buster Keaton ·
Children of Paradise · A Christmas Story · The Color
Purple · The Conversation · Cries and Whispers ·
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie · Don’t Look
Now · The Earrings of Madame de . . . · The Fall
of the House of Usher · The Firemen’s Ball ·
Five Easy Pieces · Goldfinger · The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly · Goodfellas · The Gospel According
to Matthew · The Grapes of Wrath · Grave of the
Fireflies · Great Expectations · House of Games
· The Hustler · In Cold Blood · Jaws ·
Jules and Jim · Kieslowski’s Three Colors Trilogy
· Kind Hearts and Coronets · King Kong · The
Last Laugh · Laura · Leaving Las Vegas · Le
Boucher · The Leopard · The Life and Death of Colonel
Blimp · The Manchurian Candidate · The Man Who Laughs
· Mean Streets · Mon Oncle · Moonstruck ·
The Music Room · My Dinner with Andre · My Neighbor
Totoro · Nights of Cabiria · One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest · Orpheus · Paris, Texas · Patton ·
Picnic at Hanging Rock · Planes, Trains and Automobiles
· The Producers · Raiders of the Lost Ark ·
Raise the Red Lantern · Ran · Rashomon · Rear
Window · Rififi · The Right Stuff · Romeo and
Juliet · The Rules of the Game · Saturday Night
Fever · Say Anything · Scarface · The Searchers
· Shane · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ·
Solaris · Strangers on a Train · Stroszek ·
A Sunday in the Country · Sunrise · A Tale of Winter
· The Thin Man · This Is Spinal Tap ·Tokyo
Story · Touchez Pas au Grisbi · Touch of Evil ·
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · Ugetsu · Umberto
D · Unforgiven · Victim · Walkabout ·
West Side Story · Yankee Doodle Dandy
ROGER EBERT was born in Urbana,
Illinois, and attended local schools and the University of
Illinois, where he was editor of The Daily Illini.
After graduate study in English at the universities of Illinois,
Cape Town, and Chicago, he became a film critic of the Chicago
Sun-Times in 1967 and won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism
in 1975. The same year, he began a long association with Gene
Siskel on the TV program Siskel and Ebert. After Siskel’s
death in 1999, the program continued with Richard Roeper as
Ebert and Roeper, a show that is syndicated in more
than two hundred markets. Ebert has been a lecturer on film
in the University of Chicago’s Fine Arts Program since
1969, is an adjunct professor of cinema and media studies
at the University of Illinois, and received honorary doctorates
from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the American
Film Institute, and the University of Colorado, where he has
conducted an annual shot-by-shot analysis of a film for thirty-five
years at the Conference on World Affairs. In 1999 he started
an Overlooked Film Festival at the University of Illinois,
selecting films, genres, and formats he believes deserve more
attention. He is the author of The Great Movies (Broadway,
2002), and the bestselling annual volume Roger Ebert’s
Movie Yearbook, and Roger Ebert’s Book of Film,
in addition to a dozen other books. He lives in Chicago with
his wife, Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, an attorney.
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