Roger Ebert’s Four-Star Reviews 1967-2007

Roger Ebert's Four-Star Reviews 1967-2007

Spanning the length of Roger Ebert’s career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time. A great guide for movie watching.

About the Author
Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times and cohost of the national television program Ebert and Roeper. His reviews are syndicated internationally in more than 200 newspapers and available online at www.rogerebert.com. A recipient of t
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A History of Narrative Film, Fourth Edition

A History of Narrative Film, Fourth Edition

Sophisticated in its analytical content, current and comprehensive in its coverage of all aspects of film and filmmaking, and informed throughout by fascinating historical and cultural contexts, A History of Narrative Film is widely acknowledged to be the definitive text in the field. The Fourth Edition adds an entire chapter on computer-generated imaging, updates filmographies for nearly all living directors mentioned in the text, and includes major new sections that both revisit
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Brooklyn Independent Vol. 1

Brooklyn Independent Vol. 1

Joe Pacheco, Curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has selected 10 stellar shorts film for this DVD compilation. They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco’s screening series, which takes place every other Monday at Barbes, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. TRUE STORY, Directed by Stephanie Via 3 min – 2006 – USA – English – B&W An elderly woman remembers a tragic childhood mome
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Gimme Skelter

Gimme Skelter

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“Gimme Skelter features a dangerous, bloodthirsty ‘family’ traveling in a van who decide to outdo a previous notorious ‘family’ by slaughtering every person in a remote small town. The frenzied, gore-spattered battle between the family and the surprisingly rambunctious citizens over a long night make up the core of this entertaining thriller. Sly & energetic. 4 stars.” – –John Oak Dalton, Micro-Cinema Scene

What if Charles Manson’s illegitimate son decided to follow in
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75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films

75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films

Short films have their own succinct pleasures, but they’re almost impossible to see outside of occasional festival screenings. So it’s delightful that all of the short animated and live-action films nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 have been packaged together for home viewing. The two American animated shorts are, perhaps unsurprisingly, comic–a Pixar snippet featuring characters from Monsters, Inc. and a clever sci-fi shaggy-dog story (“The ChubbChubbs!,” that year’s
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Alone and Restless: Director’s Cut

Alone and Restless: Director's Cut (Independent Film Showcase)

Engaged in a battle to control the downtown drug trade, Mace (Martin Seijo) must fight to maintain control of his street gang as a young hustler named Ponch (Allan Medina) tries to take him out. Caught in the middle of the drug war are homeless drifters Jason (Michael Thomas Dunn) and Molly (Jamie Belanger). The film is existential journey of life in the urban jungle. The film is a somber look at the challenges of poverty, drugs and homelessness in the inner city.This feature f
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