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 Garca - 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
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 Garca - 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
