罗杰•伊伯特（Roger Ebert，1942— ），第一位因写影评获普利策艺术评论奖的作 者，生于伊利诺伊州厄巴纳（Urbana），在伊利诺伊大学、开普敦大学和芝加哥大学主修英语，于1967年成为《芝加哥太阳时报》（Chicago Sun-Times）影评人，1975年获普利策奖，同年，他开始与Gene Siskel长期合作，在电视上主持电影评论类节目“Siskel & Ebert”。1999年Siskel辞世后，他改与Richard Roeper合作，节目亦更名为“Ebert & Roeper”。自1969年起，伊伯特一直担任芝加哥大学“Fine Arts Program”的电影课讲师，同时任伊利诺伊大学电影与媒体学兼职教授。其间，他获得科罗拉多大学荣誉博士学位，三十余载，他每年都在该大学的世界事务会议（Conference on World Affairs）上逐镜分析一部电影。1999年，伊伯特在伊利诺伊大学创立“沧海遗珠电影节”（Overlooked Films Festival），专门推介被忽略的佳片，每年都吸引许多观众和影人参与。

罗杰•伊伯特的影评每年都会结集成Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook，此外，他还出版了十余部著作。目前，他与爱妻Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert（律师）生活在芝加哥。

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.

For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to that film with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm–or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Ebert’s selections range widely across genres, periods, and nationalities, and from the highest achievements in film art to justly beloved and wildly successful popular entertainments. Roger Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for our most important form of popular art with a scholar’s erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions, an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again.

The Great Movies includes: All About Eve • Bonnie and Clyde • Casablanca • Citizen Kane • The Godfather • Jaws • La Dolce Vita • Metropolis • On the Waterfront • Psycho • The Seventh Seal • Sweet Smell of Success • Taxi Driver • The Third Man • The Wizard of Oz • and eighty-five more films.

From the Hardcover edition.