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$\"The$ <\/a>The Great Movies<\/a> by Roger Ebert<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

I miss Roger Ebert. Even when I disagreed with his online personal journal entries, which happened fairly frequently, I still loved reading him.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, of course, I miss reading his movie reviews every Friday. They were the anchor against which I measured all other critical opinions of a film. Again, I might disagree with him because his range and experience and desires when watching a film were often different from mine. Again, it didn\u2019t matter. I loved his way with words, the way he made you understand that his point of view was very valid even if you did disagree, and the way he was unafraid to champion movies others despised. He began this with early support of 2001: A Space Odyssey and later won my heart with his embrace of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. This is something few movie critics achieve.<\/p>\n

The Great Movies collects a series of Ebert\u2019s of critical appreciations of movies which deserved a deeper look than a simple review. It ranges across time and genres to choose the best of the best, movies which make you want to grab your friends and force them to watch.<\/p>\n

This is one of those books not to read from beginning to end but to flip open and see what catches your eye. Or to pick and choose from the table of contents, either the films you love or the films you never heard of. No matter your method, you will come away both missing Roger Ebert and grateful that his \u201cvoice\u201d is still with us in print.<\/p>\n

This book makes me appreciate the movies I love even more, makes me realize some movies that I never want to watch, and \u2026 yet \u2026 also makes me appreciate that both sorts can be connected in a way that makes my own viewing richer. This just happened in reading Ebert\u2019s comparison between the noir masterpiece Sunset Boulevard (much loved by me) and the Japanese existentialist film The Woman in the Dune (in which simply reading the description was enough, thank you very much).<\/p>\n

There are some reviews which I won\u2019t read now because those movies, such as Jean Renoir\u2019s The Grand Illusion, are on my list to watch. Ebert can\u2019t fully discuss these as \u201cgreat movies\u201d without giving spoilers, so I will deny myself the pleasure of knowing his reasons for recommendation. It is enough to know that I can come back to his discussion when I am ready.<\/p>\n

Above all it makes me want to watch some of these great movies again \u2026 or for the first time. Surely that was Ebert\u2019s goal and he hits the target with sureness and grace. If you love movies, if you love intelligent and insightful writing, and, above all, if you miss Roger Ebert, then you owe it to yourself to read this collection.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"