羅傑•伊伯特（Roger Ebert，1942— ），第一位因寫影評獲普利策藝術評論奬的作 者，生於伊利諾伊州厄巴納（Urbana），在伊利諾伊大學、開普敦大學和芝加哥大學主修英語，於1967年成為《芝加哥太陽時報》（Chicago Sun-Times）影評人，1975年獲普利策奬，同年，他開始與Gene Siskel長期閤作，在電視上主持電影評論類節目“Siskel & Ebert”。1999年Siskel辭世後，他改與Richard Roeper閤作，節目亦更名為“Ebert & Roeper”。自1969年起，伊伯特一直擔任芝加哥大學“Fine Arts Program”的電影課講師，同時任伊利諾伊大學電影與媒體學兼職教授。其間，他獲得科羅拉多大學榮譽博士學位，三十餘載，他每年都在該大學的世界事務會議（Conference on World Affairs）上逐鏡分析一部電影。1999年，伊伯特在伊利諾伊大學創立“滄海遺珠電影節”（Overlooked Films Festival），專門推介被忽略的佳片，每年都吸引許多觀眾和影人參與。

羅傑•伊伯特的影評每年都會結集成Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook，此外，他還齣版瞭十餘部著作。目前，他與愛妻Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert（律師）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.