Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary

Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 9780740792465
ISBN-13 : 0740792466
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary by : Roger Ebert

An expanded glossary of movie clichés from the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic. The popular film critic offers a compilation of witty and wise observations about the film lexicon, including “Fruit Cart,” a chase scene through an ethnic or foreign locale, or “The Non-Answering Pet,” referring to a dead pet in a horror movie.

I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9780740792489
ISBN-13 : 0740792482
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by : Roger Ebert

The Pulitzer Prize–winning film critics offers up more reviews of horrible films. Roger Ebert awards at least two out of four stars to most of the more than 150 movies he reviews each year. But when the noted film critic does pan a movie, the result is a humorous, scathing critique far more entertaining than the movie itself. I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie is a collection of more than 200 of Ebert’s most biting and entertaining reviews of films receiving a mere star or less from the only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. Ebert has no patience for these atrocious movies and minces no words in skewering the offenders. Witness: Armageddon * (1998)—The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out. The Beverly Hillbillies * (1993)—Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you’ve ever seen, spin it out to ninety-three minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It’s appalling. North no stars (1994)—I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it. Police Academy no stars (1984)—It’s so bad, maybe you should pool your money and draw straws and send one of the guys off to rent it so that in the future, whenever you think you’re sitting through a bad comedy, he could shake his head, chuckle tolerantly, and explain that you don't know what bad is. Dear God * (1996)—Dear God is the kind of movie where you walk out repeating the title, but not with a smile. The movies reviewed within I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie are motion pictures you’ll want to distance yourself from, but Roger Ebert’s creative and comical musings on those films make for a book no movie fan should miss.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 1052
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ISBN-10 : 0740755382
ISBN-13 : 9780740755385
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006 by : Roger Ebert

Now fully updated, this annual yearbook includes every review Ebert had written from January 2007 to July 2009. It also includes interviews, essays, tributes, and all-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 674
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ISBN-10 : 9780740792182
ISBN-13 : 0740792180
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010 by : Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010 is the ultimate source for movies, movie reviews, and much more. For nearly 25 years, Roger Ebert's annual collection has been recognized as the preeminent source for full-length critical movie reviews, and his 2010 yearbook does not disappoint. The yearbook includes every review Ebert has written from January 2007 to July 2009. It also includes interviews, essays, tributes, and all-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns. Fans get a bonus feature, too, with new entries to Ebert's Little Movie Glossary. This is the must-have go-to guide for movie fanatics.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 747
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ISBN-10 : 9780740792199
ISBN-13 : 0740792199
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 by : Roger Ebert

The most-trusted film critic in America." --USA Today Roger Ebert actually likes movies. It's a refreshing trait in a critic, and not as prevalent as you'd expect." --Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle America's favorite movie critic assesses the year's films from Brokeback Mountain to Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 is perfect for film aficionados the world over. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 includes every review by Ebert written in the 30 months from January 2004 through June 2006-about 650 in all. Also included in the Yearbook, which is about 65 percent new every year, are: * Interviews with newsmakers such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence Howard, Stephen Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Heath Ledger, Nicolas Cage, and more. * All the new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns. * Daily film festival coverage from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride. *Essays on film issues and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 980
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ISBN-10 : 0740747428
ISBN-13 : 9780740747427
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005 by : Roger Ebert

Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, including the films "Seabiscuit, The Passion of the Christ," and "Finding Nemo," the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. It also contains the year's interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 946
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ISBN-10 : 9780740792168
ISBN-13 : 0740792164
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 by : Roger Ebert

Nobody has been more important in telling Americans why we should love film than Roger Ebert. --Michael Shamberg, Editor and Publisher Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 650 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, essays, tributes, film festival reports, and Q and As from Questions for the Movie Answer Man. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 collects more than two years' worth of his engaging film critiques. From Bee Movie to Darfur Now to No Country for Old Men, and from Juno to Persepolis to La Vie en Rose, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 includes every review Ebert has written from January 2006 to June 2008. Also included in the Yearbook, which boasts 65 percent new content, are: * Interviews with newsmakers, such as Juno director Jason Reitman and Jerry Seinfeld, a touching tribute to Deborah Kerr, and an emotional letter of appreciation to Werner Herzog. * Essays on film issues, and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year. * Daily film festival reports from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride. * All-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns.

Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy

Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9780810877566
ISBN-13 : 0810877562
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy by : Raymond Foery

After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971, the depressed director traveled to London, the city he had left in 1939 to make his reputation in Hollywood. The film he came to shoot there would mark a return to the style for which he had become known and would restore him to international acclaim. Like The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest before, Frenzy repeated the classic Hitchcock trope of a man on the run from the police while chasing down the real criminal. But unlike those previous works, Frenzy also featured some elements that were new to the master of suspense’s films, including explicit nudity, depraved behavior, and a brutal act that would challenge Psycho’s shower scene for the most disturbing depiction of violence in a Hitchcock film. In Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece, Raymond Foery recounts the history—writing, preprod

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 1182
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ISBN-10 : 9781449423117
ISBN-13 : 1449423116
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013 by : Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert’s “criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range. . . .” —New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 600 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, tributes, and journal entries inside Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2013. It includes every movie review Ebert has written from January 2010 to July 2012. Also included in the Yearbook: In-depth interviews with newsmakers and celebrities Tributes to those in the film industry who have passed away recently Essays on the Oscars, reports from the Toronto Film Festival, and entries into Ebert's Little Movie Glossary

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 794
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ISBN-10 : 9781449421502
ISBN-13 : 1449421504
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012 by : Roger Ebert

The only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, Roger Ebert collects his reviews from the last 30 months in Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012. Forbes Magazine described Ebert as the "most powerful pundit in America." In January 2011, he and his wife, Chaz, launched Ebert Presents at the Movies, a weekly public television program in the tradition that he and Gene Siskel began 35 years earlier. Since 1986, each edition of Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook has presented full-length movie reviews, with interviews, essays, tributes, journal entries, and "Questions for the Movie Answer Man," and new entries in his popular Movie Glossary. Inside Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012, readers can expect to find every movie review Ebert has written from January 2009 to July 2011, including The Social Network, Waiting for Superman, Inception, The King's Speech, My Dog Tulip, The Human Centipede, and more. Also included in the Yearbook are: * In-depth interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, such as John Waters and Justin Timberlake. * Memorial tributes to those in the film industry who have passed away, such as Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, and Arthur Penn. * Essays on the Oscars and reports from the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals.