![]() ![]() According to Roger, Kaufman was "the most gifted screenwriter of the 2000s. To celebrate the momentous release of this book, we have compiled excerpts from some of Ebert's featured essays, including his review of Michel Gondry's 2004 sci-fi romance, " Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," the film that earned screenwriter Charlie Kaufman an Oscar. Caligari," "Man with a Movie Camera") to the recent past (" The Big Lebowski," " A.I. The films featured in The Great Movies IV range from the silent era (" The Cabinet of Dr. As I used to tell him, his writing made me swoon. ![]() Illness may have robbed my husband of the ability to speak, but his voice resonated louder than ever before. He was dealing with much more than whether a film was great-he was grappling with the very nature of storytelling and the profound role that it plays in our lives. ![]() Roger could peel away the layers of an onion like few other writers, yet I truly believe that in his last years, Roger's writing achieved an even greater philosophical depth. His work had remarkable depth to it from the very beginning of his journalism career, even before he was hired as the Chicago Sun-Times film critic. What makes this fourth and final edition of The Great Movies so meaningful for me is the fact that it contains some of Roger's final essays. ![]()
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