Great Movies
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Roger Ebert's final entry in his series of books called The Great Movies was released this fall to glowing reviews, and you may win a copy just by signing up for our newsletter! The free newsletter goes out with all of our new reviews every Friday, and a blog edition of the newsletter will join it shortly. Two emails a week with links to great content AND a chance to win a book of Roger's writing. Sign up in the email box below. No purchase necessary. Ten winners will be chosen randomly from those who sign-up by Friday, December 30th at 6pm.
Official Synopsis of the Great Movies IV:
No film critic has ever been as influential—or as beloved— as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times with syndication in over 200 newspapers, and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and later Richard Roeper about the movies they loved and loathed. But Ebert went well beyond a mere “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” Readers could always sense the man behind the words, a man with interests beyond film and a lifetime’s distilled wisdom about the larger world. Although the world lost one of its most important critics far too early, Ebert lives on in the minds of moviegoers today, who continually find themselves debating what he might have thought about a current movie.
The Great Movies IV is the fourth—and final—collection of Roger Ebert’s essays, comprising sixty-two reviews of films ranging from the silent era to the recent past. From films like The Cabinet of Caligari and Viridiana that have been considered canonical for decades to movies only recently recognized as masterpieces to Superman, The Big Lebowski, and Pink Floyd: The Wall, the pieces gathered here demonstrate the critical acumen seen in Ebert’s daily reviews and the more reflective and wide-ranging considerations that the longer format allowed him to offer. Ebert’s essays are joined here by an insightful foreword by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz, the current editor-at-large of the official Roger Ebert website, and a touching introduction by Chaz Ebert, the co-founder and publisher of the website, and Roger's widow.
A fitting capstone to a truly remarkable career, The Great Movies IV will introduce newcomers to some of the most exceptional movies ever made, while revealing new insights to connoisseurs as well.
