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. From Americas most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness. 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.

Filled with the same deep insight, dry wit, and sharp observations that his readers have long cherished, this is more than a memoir-it is a singular, warm-hearted, inspiring look at life itself.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. This is a story that only Roger Ebert could tell.

He shares his insights into movie stars and directors like John Wayne, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese. He remembers his friendships with Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Oprah Winfrey, and Russ Meyer (for whom he wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and an ill-fated Sex Pistols movie). He writes about his years at the Sun-Times, his colorful newspaper friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. In this candid, personal history, Ebert chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and obsessions his struggle and recovery from alcoholism his marriage his politics and his spiritual beliefs. It is a journey that began as a reporter for his local daily, and took him to Chicago, where he was unexpectedly given the job of film critic for the Sun-Times, launching a lifetime's adventures. Roger Ebert's journalism carried him on a path far from his nearly idyllic childhood in Urbana, Illinois. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career. Roger Eberts Great Movies Notorious (1946) My Darling Clementine (1946) Its a Wonderful Life (1946) Great Expectations (1946) The Big Sleep (1946). But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. Americas most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time.

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