Volume 1 of a pair (see The Great Movies II which I reviewed earlier) of collected extended critical reviews of the most important movies of all time. This book includes all the expected, including some of my all time favorites like "Casablanca", "Chinatown", and "Citizen Kane", and some of the more obscure critic's-picks type of movies like "Woman in the Dunes" and 'Un Chien Andalou"--most of which I find are available on Netfllix, the modern movie maven's mecca.
Ebert's Great Movies wraps up my recent tour of movies from worst (The fifty worst films of all time: (and how they got that way)) to bad (I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie) to evey day (A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey), and while it is fun to laugh about and even admire the worst in movies, it is the best that makes us look forward one more time to willful suspension of disbelief in the dark.
But while Ebert and others can act as guides, we will each find our own place in the dark. One movie ("Last Year at Marienbad") makes both the worst and the great lists. Put these movies in your Netflix queue (yes, Last Year is available), turn out the lights, open your eyes, and you decide.Get more detail about The Great Movies.
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