Roger Ebert's Book of Film, by Roger Ebert
Review by Jeffrey M. Anderson
Buy Roger Ebert's Book of Film, by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert may be America's most famous movie critic because of his
television show with the late Gene Siskel. But famous or not, Ebert is
determined to make film experts out of us all. This wonderful book
collects literally a century of writing about film. For this book, Ebert
found an extraordinary essay written by Leo Tolstoy at the end of his
life, and at the beginning of the movies. E.M. Forster wrote an essay
about Mickey Mouse. Excerpts from great biographies by Chaplin, Bunuel,
Louise Brooks, Kurosawa, and Herzog are included, as well as excerpts
from novels like The Moviegoer, The Godfather,
The Player, and Get Shorty. I could almost write
a book myself describing all the great stuff in here. Best of all is
Ebert's own classic interview with Lee Marvin, in the days before the
"hotel room" interview. If I've forgotten any great film books
on this page, you can probably find them excerpted in Roger
Ebert's Book of Film.
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