false <![CDATA[The Great Movies]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167428246m/23559.jpg 23559 2 If Pauline Kael popularized &#147;movie love,&#148; Roger Ebert is the eloquent Valentino of cinephiles. This invaluable volume gathers 100 of the Pulitzer winner's mini-essays composed since 1997, revised and updated, to form a love letter that could only spring from decades of devotion. A feat of superlative analysis, historical reflection, personal diary, and journalistic odyssey, <I>The Great Movies</I> combines an accessible style with an academic's precision. Accompanied by photos perfectly chosen by Museum of Modern Art film stills archivist Mary Corliss, the 100 films are irrefutably worthy of inclusion, allowing room for debate (John Ford's <I>My Darling Clementine</I> is in, <I>The Searchers</I> is not--arguably a wise decision) while placing each film into its own undeniable context of superiority. Admirably, Ebert recognizes that no critic writes in a vacuum; he dedicates the book to eight master critics hailed as &#147;teachers,&#148; quotes many of his contemporaries, and carries on the debate with Kael's lingering spirit (Ebert counters her on <I>Body Heat</I>, praises her on <I>Nashville</I>). His appreciation of <I>E.T.</I> is written as a letter to beloved children in his life, and the entire book breathes with an awareness of legacy--the cinema's and Ebert's own--that underlies the sobering theme of his introduction. We need these movies (and this book) to remind us that movies can be so much better than they typically are. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I> 24512 book 2002 The Great Movies total:150|5:62|4:66|3:21|2:1|1:0| 150 639 207 18 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 01:57:15 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 04:14:35 -0700 2009 For a former movie watcher (although always selective) I’m almost surprised I’ve only seen 52 out of 100 movies listed.
I would certainly *not* include the films 2001: A Space Odyssey [yawwwwwn:], Chinatown [horrible script, Nicholson sucks, etc:] Dr. Strangelove [Peter Sellers, as a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 13:26:07 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 13:31:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 08 17:42:37 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 17:47:39 -0800 2008
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