Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (868 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226182010 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Unveiling Roger Ebert" according to Charles M. Robinson. When you think of Roger Ebert you think of "movie critic". However, this book introduces us to the depth of this man's love of the cinema and his ability to understand it. The book covers forty years of reviews, essays and interviews. For the film lover it will be an exciting journey back to the darken theaters of yesterday, and to the present blockbusters. His. "Pleasurable prose from one of America's great underappreciated treasures" according to C R Swanson. You know, there's a very good reason Roger Ebert won a Pulitzer. The man is an amazing writer. If you enjoy the pure pleasure of reading, and have a passion for the movies, you would be hard-pressed to find a better book than this to read.The book is mostly a collection of writings by Ebert over the last several decades. There's some interviews with famous film. "A great writer writing about what he loves" according to David W. Sugarman. Roger Ebert loves movies, and he is a wonderful writer. He can reveal the essence of a movie with a poet;s touch, and he can point out some elements of the great mystery that draws us to an actor we might love, but not know why (thinking of his piece on Tom Hanks).In one of the last reviewed movies in the book, "Crash" his writing helped me understand why a mov
He is the author of numerous books on film, including The Great Movies, The Great Movies II, and Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook.. Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times and has cohosted a weekly movie review program on television
More compelling are longer "think pieces" on such topics as colorization, the movie-ratings system, digital projection, and Star Wars' deleterious effect on Hollywood. The volume's final selection, a 2004 piece about the healing effect of viewing movies--and of writing about them--during his convalescence from cancer treatment, may well serve as his valedictory. All rights reserved. Gordon FlaggCopyright © American Library Association. After a nostalgic introduction recounting his initial forays into criticism, he presents reviews of the best films of each of the past 38 years, from Bonnie and Clyde to Crash, and a selection of fo
From The Godfather to GoodFellas, from Cries and Whispers to Crash, the reviews in Awake in the Dark span some of the most exceptional periods in film history, from the dramatic rise of rebel Hollywood and the heyday of the auteur, to the triumph of blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the indie revolution that is still with us today. With Awake in the Dark, both fans and film buffs can finally bask in the best of Ebert's work. The extraordinary interviews gathered in Awake in the Dark capture Ebert engaging not only some of the most influential directors of our time-Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, and Ingmar Bergman-but also some of the silver screen's most respected and dynamic personalities, including actors as diverse as Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Warren Beatty, and Meryl Streep. He was the first such critic to win a Pulitzer Prize-one of just three film critics ever to receive that honor-and the only one to have a star dedicated to him on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His groundbreaking hit Tv show, At the Movies, meanwhile, has made "two thumbs up" one of the most coveted hallmarks in the en