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Roger Ebert's movie reviews are extremely popular, and there are valid reasons for this. Ebert writes entertainingly, his movie assessments are generally spot-on, and he's able to explain, concretely and descriptively, the strengths and flaws of the movies he reviews. That said, there are all sorts of reasons to want Ebert's Movie Yearbook 1999. For one, it provides the same kind of wonderful reference service his Video Companion volumes did, only more so, including every review penned (or more likely, keyboarded) by Ebert in 1997 and 1998, about 500 in all, instead of the 150 reviews selected for each Video Companion. The good, the bad, and the indifferent, they're all there, with blockbusters and little-known independents, art films and documentaries, foreign films and Hollywood extravaganzas. It doesn't include a review for every film made since cinematography began, but, for each movie selected, there's a full-length review instead of the mini-reviews seen in more inclusive anthologies.
In addition, there's an appendix listing every movie review that ever appeared in an Ebert Video Companion (nearly 2,000 titles in all), with the star rating he assigned at the time, so while you don't get to read the reviews, you do get his valuable conclusions. The Yearbook also includes a summary of the best films of 1997, interviews with a number of movie hot shots (from Jim Carrey and Spike Lee to Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino), essays on David Brinkley, Frank Sinatra, Spielberg at 50, and the Titanic, as well as notes from film festivals in Toronto, Telluride, and Cannes. All this plus a comprehensive, cross-referenced index make the Movie Yearbook a superb cinema resource. Ebert fans already know the pleasures of Ebert's prose, but newcomers to Ebert's style will easily understand why he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his movie critiques. --Stephanie Gold
Book Description
America"s number one movie fan is back with his annual edition of movie reviews. Everyone from Diane Sawyer to Regis Philbin anticipates Roger Ebert"s next release because of the overwhelming cornucopia of movie material it contains. Roger Ebert"s Movie Yearbook 2004 contains every review Ebert wrote from January 2001 to mid-June 2003. Also included are his essays, interviews, film festival reports, and In Memoriams, along with a list of all movies previously appearing in a Video Companion or Movie Yearbook, complete with Ebert"s star ratings.Since 1967, Ebert has been a movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. The best-selling author and American institution received an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado, regularly lectures at the University of Chicago, and was named to the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. He and his partner-in-crime of 24 years, the late Gene Siskel, gave us the "thumb"s up" and "thumb"s down" that have become part of the American lexicon.
About the Author
Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times and cohost of the national TV program Ebert & Roeper. His reviews are syndicated to some 200 newspapers in the United States and Canada. His Web site has named the best Internet movie review site by the Online Film Critics Society.
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