THE GREAT MOVIES PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Roger Ebert | 544 pages | 31 Mar 2004 | Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) | 9780767910385 | English | New York, United States The Great Movies - Wikipedia Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Hunt Citizen Kane Full Metal Jacket Bicycle Thieves The Kid A Clockwork Orange Singin' in the Rain North by Northwest Snatch Scarface Taxi Driver Ikiru Lawrence of Arabia Toy Story 3 The Sting Metropolis A Separation Incendies For a Few Dollars More The Apartment Come and See Double Indemnity To Kill a Mockingbird Up Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Confidential Heat Die Hard Monty Python and the Holy Grail Rashomon Batman Begins Yojimbo Green Book Children of Heaven Downfall Unforgiven Ran Some Like It Hot Howl's Moving Castle A Beautiful Mind Casino All About Eve The Great Escape The Wolf of Wall Street Anand Pan's Labyrinth The Secret in Their Eyes Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Raging Bull My Neighbor Totoro There Will Be Blood Judgment at Nuremberg The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Dial M for Murder Chinatown The Gold Rush My Father and My Son Shutter Island No Country for Old Men V for Vendetta The Seventh Seal Inside Out Warrior The Elephant Man The Thing Trainspotting The Sixth Sense Jurassic Park Gone with the Wind The Truman Show Wild Strawberries Finding Nemo Blade Runner Stalker Kill Bill: Vol. Room The Bridge on the River Kwai Fargo What is worse is that he has never lived. I went to the movie because it was playing in a campus film series and cost only a quarter. There was not, he said, a shred of truth in it. It was a mishmash of fabrications and paranoid fantasies. It did not reflect the most elementary principles of good journalism. We should all be ashamed of ourselves. I have no doubt Cronkite was correct, from his point of view. But I am a film critic and my assignment is different than his. He wants facts. I want moods, tones, fears, imaginings, whims, speculations, nightmares. As a general principle, I believe films are the wrong medium for fact. Fact belongs in print. Films are about emotions. Reviewing a film that is old could pose several problems, but if it's been remade a million times since, is harder; Ebert pulls this off with "Nosferatu": To watch F. The film is in awe of its material. It seems to really believe in vampires. Max Schreck, who plays the vampire, avoids most of the theatrical touches that would distract from all the later performances, from Bela Lugosi to Christopher Lee to Frank Langella to Gary Oldman. The vampire should come across not like a flamboyant actor, but like a man suffering from a dread curse. Check out the insight on "Raging Bull", one of the best films ever made according to myself: Raging Bull is not a film about boxing, but about a man with paralyzing jealousy and sexual insecurity, for whom being punished in the ring serves as confession, penance, and absolution. It is no accident that the screenplay never concerns itself with fight strategy. For Jake LaMotta, what happens during a fight is controlled not by tactics, but by his fears and drives. They asked Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver , to do a screenplay. Raging Bull is the most painful and heart-rending portrait of jealousy in the cinema—an Othello for our times. Boxing is the arena, not the subject. LaMotta was famous for never being knocked down in the ring. There are scenes where he stands passively, his hands at his side, allowing himself to be hammered. He hurt too much to allow the pain to stop. All in all: very insightful, almost a little too much for me, who's not a film critic or someone who's that deep into film. Still, Ebert a perfect juxtaposition to Anthony Lane's brilliant collection of his own reviews, titled "Nobody's Perfect". Nov 12, William Schram rated it it was amazing Shelves: essays , anthology. Roger Ebert was a masterful critic. This mainly stemmed from his love both of movies and the art of film making. Before he died he made a series of newspaper articles called The Great Movies. It would go back over movies that Ebert considered to be Great. Along the way, he introduces us to what a movie is supposed to do and how it is supposed to work as an artistic medium. A movie to Ebert is a reflection of the time that it is made, a snapshot of a particular culture. Roger Ebert writes about on Roger Ebert was a masterful critic. Roger Ebert writes about one hundred movies both old and relatively new. I have heard of a few of these movies which is more than I expected from myself. Then he goes and subverts your expectations with some of his choices. For example, one of the movies he talks about is Beauty and the Beast; not the Disney animated film from or the live-action remake, but instead a French film from that is based on the original fairy tale. It is a fine introduction to the world of movies. With most of the movies in question, Ebert had gone over the film shot for shot which is interesting to me. Ebert was also able to talk to a lot of the key players in making some of the movies while he went over them. That is 13 out of , for a grade of F. Ebert also takes time in the introduction to bemoan shortening attention spans and the rise of making movies merely to make money and not to tell a story. Ebert comes off as quite prescient in this case. There is one other person that must receive praise in this book, and that is the person of Mary Corliss. I am not sure if she maintains this position to this day, but the book did come out in so maybe she got a promotion or something. This book comes as one part of a three-part series. It is quite good. The essays are organized alphabetically. It makes it easy to pick out one or another essay you want to read. May 21, Brittany rated it it was ok Shelves: nonfiction. While I agreed with a few of the reviews in the book, I found my attention wandering during the whole of the book. Roger Ebert writes as if he were a college professor of film which makes for a boring book. He makes even the most exciting movie sound boring. He does mention those things but sense I am not nor have I While I agreed with a few of the reviews in the book, I found my attention wandering during the whole of the book. He does mention those things but sense I am not nor have I ever been a film student it is difficult for me to comprehend many of the points that he makes about many of the films. I think that this book would be great for film students but it just wasn't something that I enjoyed. I love movies but his writing makes me want to read more rather than watch a movie. He makes movies sound dull. I also disagreed with many of his choices such as Citizen Kane. I will never understand why some people love that movie so much. I think that it is overrated and dull. To be fair, I knew that I was going to disagree with many of his opinions which is why I picked The Greatest Movies to represent my nonfiction you feel you will disagree with category for the reading challenge I am participating in. Roger Ebert is famous for trashing movies and having controversial views. He either seems to like things that others think are awful or hate things that other people enjoy. Apr 30, S Prakash rated it it was amazing. Anything remotely pertaining to movies gets me hooked like a kid to the candy. There were reviews in all in this epoch work and I had read almost 90 of them in two days flat. The writing was so powerful and graphic that though I hadn't seen many of the classics reviewed over there, yet it was as though the movie was running in the form of words seamlessly moving from page to page. Bicycle thief; Psycho; Citizen Kane; Godfather.. It was great to see Appu's trilogy also figuring in this list of best movies. Jan 04, Daniel Keohane rated it really liked it. This is a really good collection of short essays by my absolute favorite film reviewer, Roger Ebert. I say essays because these don't seem to be reviews but rather revisits to his favorite films. He rewatched all of them and wrote his thoughts, so it gives some insight into his tastes and dislikes, and opens up new films for us to see which we haven't. There are some spoilers in them, so when I began to read and found myself wanting to see a movie Ihadn't yet seen, I'd stop reading and go back t This is a really good collection of short essays by my absolute favorite film reviewer, Roger Ebert. There are some spoilers in them, so when I began to read and found myself wanting to see a movie Ihadn't yet seen, I'd stop reading and go back to it another time. This has been on the shelf as casual readings most of last year.