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The Great Movies

By: Roger Ebert

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Paperback | 2 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.

Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects 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 enthusiasm–or 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, the film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies is 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 Movies includes: 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.

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"This is a wonderful book, an appreciation of the greatest movies by the greatest movie enthusiast--and also the shrewdest, the most humane and clear-sighted. I read this book with pleasure, enlightenment, and a desire to see many of the movies again, because I had missed what Roger saw." -- Paul Theroux

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Introduction	p. xv
Still and Moving	p. xxi
2001: A Space Odyssey	p. 1
The 400 Blows	p. 7
8 1/2	p. 12
Aguirre, the Wrath of God	p. 17
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	p. 22
All About Eve	p. 27
The Apartment	p. 32
Apocalypse Now	p. 37
The Apu Trilogy	p. 43
Battleship Potemkin	p. 48
Beauty and the Beast	p. 53
Belle de Jour	p. 58
The Bicycle Thief	p. 63
The Big Sleep	p. 68
Blowup	p. 74
Body Heat	p. 79
Bonnie and Clyde	p. 84
Bride of Frankenstein	p. 89
Broken Blossoms	p. 94
Casablanca	p. 99
Chinatown	p. 104
Citizen Kane	p. 109
City Lights	p. 118
Days of Heaven	p. 123
The Decalogue	p. 128
Detour	p. 133
Do the Right Thing	p. 138
Double Indemnity	p. 143
Dracula	p. 148
Dr. Strangelove	p. 154
Duck Soup	p. 159
E.T.	p. 164
The Exterminating Angel	p. 169
Fargo	p. 174
Floating Weeds	p. 179
Gates of Heaven	p. 184
The General	p. 189
The Godfather	p. 194
Gone with the Wind	p. 199
Grand Illusion	p. 204
Greed	p. 209
A Hard Day's Night	p. 214
Hoop Dreams	p. 219
Ikiru	p. 224
It's a Wonderful Life	p. 229
JFK	p. 234
La Dolce Vita	p. 239
The Lady Eve	p. 244
Last Year at Marienbad	p. 249
L'Atalante	p. 254
L'Avventura	p. 259
Lawrence of Arabia	p. 264
Le Samourai	p. 269
M	p. 274
The Maltese Falcon	p. 279
Manhattan	p. 284
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	p. 289
Metropolis	p. 294
Mr. Hulot's Holiday	p. 299
My Darling Clementine	p. 304
My Life to Live	p. 309
Nashville	p. 314
Network	p. 319
The Night of the Hunter	p. 324
Nosferatu	p. 329
Notorious	p. 334
On the Waterfront	p. 339
Pandora's Box	p. 344
The Passion of Joan of Arc	p. 349
Peeping Tom	p. 354
Persona	p. 359
Pickpocket	p. 364
Pinocchio	p. 369
Psycho	p. 374
Pulp Fiction	p. 380
Raging Bull	p. 385
Red River	p. 390
Schindler's List	p. 395
The Seven Samurai	p. 400
The Seventh Seal	p. 405
The Shawshank Redemption	p. 410
The Silence of the Lambs	p. 415
Singin' in the Rain	p. 420
Some Like It Hot	p. 425
Star Wars	p. 430
Sunset Blvd	p. 436
Sweet Smell of Success	p. 441
Swing Time	p. 446
Taxi Driver	p. 451
The Third Man	p. 456
Trouble in Paradise	p. 461
Un Chien Andalou	p. 466
The "Up" Documentaries	p. 471
Vertigo	p. 477
The Wild Bunch	p. 482
Wings of Desire	p. 487
The Wizard of Oz	p. 492
Woman in the Dunes	p. 497
A Woman Under the Influence	p. 502
Written on the Wind	p. 507
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