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Title: The Great Movies by Roger Ebert ISBN: 0-7679-1032-X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must have for film buffs.
Comment: While obviously any list of 100 great movie are open to debate this definitly a great place to start.Not a comprensive guide like Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (Also a must have by the way.)but an in depth analyisis of what Roger believes to be some of the most important films of all time.A wide diverse collection of films are explored in these pages from art films classics such as Wim Wenders "Wings of desires", Warner Herzog's "Aguirre,the wrath of god" to mainstream classics such as "ET", Disney's "Pinocchio" and everyone's favorite "The Godfather".All movies are devoted anywhere from 2-5 pages of in depth decription.This is a book to be owned,the pleasure I found in reading this book is not from cover to cover but to be read like a reference guide.It allows you to sink in what a masterpiece these films are really are in their own way.
Rating: 5
Summary: Informed Essays
Comment: Ebert delivers some of his finest writing, enthused by his obvious love for the subject. As Andrew Wyeth said of Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Ebert's Pulitzer Prize-winning style is "deceptively simple yet impossible to reproduce." There is little doubt that Ebert's depth and breadth of film knowledge - it's grammar, history and social relevance - has placed him as one of the world's leading experts on the medium. He offers this rich tapestry of experience in a writing style that is insightful and admirably concise. Ebert defines the films in the book as important; then with simple eloquence details how he arrived at his conclusions. Readers will recognize beloved films and revel in Ebert's discussion; other films may cause thoughtful disagreement with the author's view. Throughout the book, Ebert's expertise and love of film is apparent and penned with forthright enthusiasm. Any film fan will find pleasure in reading the informed opinion of one of the most eloquent film writer's in America today. David R. Bannon, Ph.D.; author "Race Against Evil."
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly, the only book about the movies that you must own.
Comment: I have discovered countless movies via Ebert's essays. "Aguirre, The Wrath of God." "Broken Blossoms." "The 'Up' Documentaries." "Ali: Fear Eats The Soul." "Night of the Hunter." "Grave of the Fireflies." "Woman in the Dunes." "The Decalogue." "The Grand Illusion." "The Passion of Joan of Arc." "The Bank Dick." In fact, Ebert's essays are responsible for the bulk of what I know about the cinema. The purpose of libraries, they say, is to preserve what needs preserving - well, this book fulfills that function. In this day and age, everything is available fairly easily, but only if you already know about it and wish to expend a bit of effort finding it. All of these old or obscure films are out there, but oftentimes, you'd never hear of them unless you just deliberately decided to extensively research the cinema, and even then you'd probably miss a bunch. This is the book that tells you about what's out there and the book to make you into a serious lover of cinema. There are not enough good things that I can say about it.
My favourite aspect of Ebert's Great Movies essays (which are all available on the Sun-Times website) is that they approach the films not from a film-criticism perspective, but from a simply human one. There is no discussion of sexual symbolism, Jungian psychology, feminist theory or any of the snotty artiness that one might expect from film critics. This may be because Ebert was an English major in college, not a film major - this allows him to ground his reviews in reality while writing them with utter stylistic excellence. In these reviews, it is the human appeal in the films that comes through every time. Oh, sure, occasionally he uses a technique that makes you roll your eyes a bit (the "E.T." review comes to mind), but for the most part, it's jolly great reading. Ebert won't tell you everything about the movie; he might not even convey to you why it's great. But it is beyond all doubt that he will infect you with his boundless enthusiasm, and that you will remember his words and see those films at some point, and certainly you won't regret a minute.
Ebert also balances out the more obscure films with the well-known mainstays - Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Taxi Driver, and such films all get their place here. Thus, the book keeps a balance between what you know and what you don't, alternately showing you something completely new and telling you something new about something you already know, jumping from country to country and movement to movement. He also recognizes that many kinds of movies can be great - thus, "Pinocchio" is listed along with "Taxi Driver," "Greed" along with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday," the noirs with the comedies, the dramas with the cartoons, the gangster films with the historical epics, the neo-realists with the surrealists, and so on, and so forth. The result is a sweeping, comprehensive portrait of the entirety of cinema. This book explains why the cinema is a fantastic art form, why it is thrilling, exciting and interesting, and why people go to see movies in the first place. Truly, it is the only book about the cinema that you must own.
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Title: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 by Roger Ebert ISBN: 0740738348 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films by Jay Carr, National Society of Film Critics ISBN: 0306810964 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made by Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin, Peter M. Nichols ISBN: 0812930010 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger Ebert ISBN: 0740706721 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of : Hidden Treasures, Neglected Classics, and Hits From By-Gone Eras by David N. Meyer ISBN: 0312150423 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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