Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
by Roger Ebert
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The influential, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic offers four decades of his personal insights, encounters, and experiences in the world of motion pictures.Tags
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Very enjoyable - avoids the trap of a lot of nonfiction/essay collections I've read recently where you get 3 samey variations on the same theme (probably because Ebert was writing for so long). The section on film criticism at the end feels very off and inside-baseball compared to the rest of the collection, but doesn't sour the experience totally.
A great collection of movie reviews and a wonderful resource of great American (and world) cinema. Glad they added the essays and such at the end, however, or this collection may not have warranted any re-reading value.
How can you not like anything from Roger Ebert?
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Roger Joseph Ebert was born on June 18, 1942 in Urbana, Illinois, and died on April 4, 2013. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was editor of the Daily Illini. He is best known for his film review column in the Chicago Sun Times since 1967 and for the television programs Sneak show more Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies. After Gene Siskel's death in 1999, Roger Ebert teamed up with Ruchard Roeper for the television series Ebert and Roeper and The Movies which began airing in 2000. Ebert's movie reviews were in more than 200 newspapers in the U.S. and worldwide by Universal Press Syndicate. He wrote more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook which was a collection of his reviews for that specific year. He became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. In June 2005, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; he was the first professional critic to receive this award. He received honorary degrees from the University of Colorado, the AFI Conservatory, and the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Ebert died on April 4, 2013 at age 70. He had lost his voice and much of his jaw after battling thyroid and salivary gland cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Awake in the Dark. The Best of Roger Ebert. Reviews, Essays, and Interviews
- Original publication date
- 2006
- First words
- I began my work as a film critic in 1967, although one of the pieces in this book goes back to my days on the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois. (Introduction)
One day it was winter. (Prologue)
In a perfect world, movie critics would perhaps never do interviews. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I started out as a kid, and look how far I've come."
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
- LCC
- PN1995 .E313 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- Popularity
- 126,598
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (4.07)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
