Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film
This is the best film book of the mid-'90s and probably the best anthology of writing about the movies ever published. Choosing from the work of novelists and essayists as well as directors, actors, screenwriters and technicians, Ebert places the best that has ever been said or thought about the movies on parade. Here Graham Greene, Delmore Schwartz, and Susan Sontag sit down with Akira Kurosawa, Janet Leigh, and Budd Schulberg; Robert Stone, Julia Phillips, and Kenneth Anger shake hands with Louise Brooks, Gore Vidal, and John Updike. Beautifully organized with lively commentary by the editor,Roger Ebert's Book of Filmis entertaining enough to inspire the casual peruser to do further reading and serious enough to be a staple of any good film library.