The Great Movies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Roger Ebert
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Essays and film
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays, History, Arts
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Journalism or journalists, France or French people, Photography or photographers, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Entertaining or entertainers, Time, Technology, Film noir
A film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, Roger Ebert is best known for his appearances on national television’s long-running Siskel and Ebert at the Movies (later Ebert and Roeper). Through three and a half decades, he has reviewed more than two hundred new films every year. Many of his newspaper reviews have been collected in books that have become popular film guides. The present book, however, has nothing to do with these earlier collections. Its one hundred essays are derived from more than 150 newspaper columns on films of the past that Ebert began...
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