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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Alfred Hitchcock: Director of many suspense films, including "Psycho".
- Buster Keaton: Silent actor.
- Ingmar Bergman: Swedish director
- Charlie Chaplin: Silent movie actor famous for his character "The Little Tramp". His portrayals were mainly "Everyman".
- Martin Scorsese: Director.
- Luis Buñuel: Director
- Jack Lemmon: Actor. Noted for a broad range of roles, here for "The Apartment".
- Fritz Lang: Director of "Metropolis".
- Marilyn Monroe: Actress.
- Francois Truffaut: French director.
- Akira Kurosawa: Japanese director, know for "The Seven Samurai" as well as many others.
- F. W. Murnau: German director of "Nosferatu", the earliest vampire movie.
- Billy Wilder: Director
- John Cassavetes: Director
- Lauren Bacall: Actress, famous for both her roles and her love affair with Humphrey Bogart
- Erich von Stroheim: Director
- Orson Wells: Actor and director of "Citizen Kane".
- Humphrey Bogart: Actor, husband of Lauren Bacall.
First Sentence edit
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but in how little.
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Ebert's great movies. (standard series)
Followed by The Great Movies II.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Roger Ebert (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 791.4375
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