From America's most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness.

Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm—or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Neither a snob nor a shill, Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for today's most important form of popular art with a scholar's erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Once again wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, former film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies II is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions, an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again.

Films featured in The Great Movies II

12 Angry Men • The Adventures of Robin Hood • Alien • Amadeus • Amarcord • Annie Hall • Au Hasard, Balthazar • The Bank Dick • Beat the Devil • Being There • The Big Heat • The Birth of a Nation • The Blue Kite • Bob le Flambeur • Breathless • The Bridge on the River Kwai • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo García • Buster Keaton • Children of Paradise • A Christmas Story • The Color Purple • The Conversation • Cries and Whispers • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie • Don't Look Now • The Earrings of Madame de . . . • The Fall of the House of Usher • The Firemen's Ball • Five Easy Pieces • Goldfinger • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • Goodfellas • The Gospel According to Matthew • The Grapes of Wrath • Grave of the Fireflies • Great Expectations • House of Games • The Hustler • In Cold Blood • Jaws • Jules and Jim • Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy • Kind Hearts and Coronets • King Kong • The Last Laugh • Laura • Leaving Las Vegas • Le Boucher • The Leopard • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp • The Manchurian Candidate • The Man Who Laughs • Mean Streets • Mon Oncle • Moonstruck • The Music Room • My Dinner with Andre • My Neighbor Totoro • Nights of Cabiria • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Orpheus • Paris, Texas • Patton • Picnic at Hanging Rock • Planes, Trains and Automobiles • The Producers • Raiders of the Lost Ark • Raise the Red Lantern • Ran • Rashomon • Rear Window • Rififi • The Right Stuff • Romeo and Juliet • The Rules of the Game • Saturday Night Fever • Say Anything • Scarface • The Searchers • Shane • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • Solaris • Strangers on a Train • Stroszek • A Sunday in the Country • Sunrise • A Tale of Winter • The Thin Man • This Is Spinal Tap • Tokyo Story • Touchez Pas au Grisbi • Touch of Evil • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre • Ugetsu • Umberto D • Unforgiven • Victim • Walkabout • West Side Story • Yankee Doodle Dandy