The Great Movies II

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 II12 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 to Matthew 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