- Motion pictures, Películas cinematográficas, Reviews, Historia
From America's most trusted and best-known film critic, one hundred brilliant essays on the films that define for him cinematic greatness.For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Spare, classical in form, earnest and warm.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Roger Ebert
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 469
- Publisher
- Ma Non Troppo, Broadway Books, Broadway
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788495601841
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 5 want to.
“The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but in how little.”
Renowned film critic from the *Chicago Sun-Times*, famous for his thumb gesture. With rival Gene Siskel of the *Chicago Tribune*, he co-hosted several movie review series—all utilizing the same format—from 1975 until the late 1990s.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Talking about detective fiction 200973% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, earnest.
Why read the classics? 199972% alikeBoth spare, warm, character-led.
Both earnest, classical in form, warm.
Both spare, classical in form, earnest.
Both earnest, classical in form, spare.
Both warm, earnest, classical in form; this one is more intimate.
The game 198361% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, contemplative; this one is more richly built.
The Film That Changed My Life 201161% alikeBoth spare, warm, classical in form.
American Masters 198668% alikeTelevision · Both classical in form, earnest, spare.
Mr. Scorsese 202568% alikeTelevision · Both classical in form, earnest, warm; this one is more intimate.