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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/1996
ISBN: 9780393040005
Pages: 800
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 2.00d

Review Citations: Booklist 09/01/1996 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 10/14/1996 pg. 71
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/1996 pg. 1369
Library Journal 10/15/1996 pg. 62
Booklist 11/01/1996 pg. 472