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Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing from a Century of Film Hardback - 1996

by Roger Ebert (Editor)

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Thumbs up for this lavish and entertaining anthology of writing on film, assembled by one of America's best-loved movie critics. For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 films that touch on every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing.

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For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 selections that touch on every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing. Here are the stars (Truman Capote on Marilyn Monroe, Joan Didion on John Wayne, Tom Wolfe on Cary Grant, Lauren Bacall on herself), the directors (John Houseman on Orson Welles, Kenneth Tynan on Mel Brooks, John Huston on himself), the makers and shakers (producer Julia Phillips, mogul Daryll F. Zanuck, stuntman Joe Bonomo), and the critics and theorists (Pauline Kael, Graham Greene, Andrew Sarris, Susan Sontag). Here as well are the novelists who have indelibly captured the experience of moviegoing in our lives (Walker Percy, James Agee, Larry McMurtry) and the culture of the movie business (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Budd Schulberg, Nathanael West). Here is a book to get lost in and return to time and time againat once a history, an anatomy, and a loving appreciation of the central art form of our time.

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  • Title Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing from a Century of Film
  • Author Roger Ebert (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 800
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 1996-11-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780393040005 / 0393040003
  • Weight 2.9 lbs (1.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.5 x 2 in (23.88 x 16.51 x 5.08 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96-14271
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.43

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/1996, Page 32
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/1996, Page 1369
  • Library Journal, 10/15/1996, Page 62
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/14/1996, Page 71
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