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 II
12 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 Garcia
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
