Great Movies II

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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 Garcia – 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 toMatthew – 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
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