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| - Roger Joseph Ebert (b. June 18, 1942 - d. April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, journalist, and screenwriter.
- Roger Ebert (born June 18, 1942, Urbana, Illinois, United States) is a film critic who called The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) a "mixed blessing" and "an entirely respectable, occasionally impressive job ... [which] still falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story."
- Roger Ebert (born 1942) is Film reviewer-in-chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, and has been since 1967. In itself, that would make him important as the elder statesman of film criticism. In 1975, Ebert teamed up with Gene Siskel, reviewer-in-chief at the Chicago Tribune, to present a film review program called Sneak Previews on the local PBS station. The program went to national syndication in 1978; in 1982 Siskel and Ebert moved to a new network and a new but very similar program called At The Movies with Siskel and Ebert (or vice versa). Unexpectedly, this made him one of the two most important movie critics in America. Because the show was televised, many more Americans saw it than read the reviews in the newspapers; because Ebert and Siskel had credentials in real newspapers in a major ci
- __noeditsection__ Image:Ebertbook.jpg File:EbertGay.png File:HateHaetHatRob.png File:UewBoll.jpg "One man can not change cinema, but cinema can change a man" read the opening titles of Roger Ebert, the latest biopic from recovering "moneyaholic" Peter Jackson. The quote is all very well and good. The problem is I'm not sure it makes any sense.
- Roger Ebert (1942-2013) was a film critic who wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is best known as the co-host of several incarnations of movie review television programs, such as At the Movies. He appeared on Sesame Street with Gene Siskel in a Sneak Peek Previews segment, spoofing their own series. The critics instruct Oscar and Telly on how their thumbs up/thumbs down rating system works. When Telly asks if there could be a thumbs sideways rating, Oscar goads the two men into an argument about whether or not that would be acceptable. The pair were also seen in the celebrity version of "Monster in the Mirror."
- Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was film critic who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times; his reviews are syndicated to over 200 newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. He is also a long-time co-host of a syndicated television program featuring his film criticism, first for 23 years with Gene Siskel and since Siskel's death, with Richard Roeper on Ebert & Roeper. Since 1999 Ebert has hosted the annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois.
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| - Roger Ebert (1942-2013) was a film critic who wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is best known as the co-host of several incarnations of movie review television programs, such as At the Movies. He appeared on Sesame Street with Gene Siskel in a Sneak Peek Previews segment, spoofing their own series. The critics instruct Oscar and Telly on how their thumbs up/thumbs down rating system works. When Telly asks if there could be a thumbs sideways rating, Oscar goads the two men into an argument about whether or not that would be acceptable. The pair were also seen in the celebrity version of "Monster in the Mirror." Years later, Ebert appeared to give a short review of a skit with Grover and the letter I spoofing the musical The King and I. This clip can be seen on the DVD A Celebration of Me, Grover. Ebert refers to Grover's role as the King of Siam.
- Roger Joseph Ebert (b. June 18, 1942 - d. April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, journalist, and screenwriter.
- Roger Ebert (born June 18, 1942, Urbana, Illinois, United States) is a film critic who called The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) a "mixed blessing" and "an entirely respectable, occasionally impressive job ... [which] still falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story."
- __noeditsection__ Image:Ebertbook.jpg File:EbertGay.png File:HateHaetHatRob.png File:UewBoll.jpg "One man can not change cinema, but cinema can change a man" read the opening titles of Roger Ebert, the latest biopic from recovering "moneyaholic" Peter Jackson. The quote is all very well and good. The problem is I'm not sure it makes any sense. This is the story of the greatest film critic who ever lived. Not my words I hope you realise, I read it on the poster on the way into the cinema. Another described me as "larger than life". I was anxious on the short walk to my seat. After all, how does one review the film of one's own life? The film, in fact, tried to answer this question. As the fictional Ebert's father (Robert De Niro) and mentor keeps telling us "whatever you write my son, be it art or criticism, write from the heart." Sorry, what was I supposed to do? "Write from the heart." Wait, which organ was it again? The spleen, right? "No, the heart." Gotcha. Good thing the character kept saying that, otherwise I might not have remembered. As big Roger battles cancer and the premature death of friend/colleague Gene Siskel (Adrien Brody), we simultaneously see little Roger growing up in Illinois, and spending an inordinate amount of time staring out of windows. This, I presume, is to give us an idea of the vastness of his aspirations. The performances are better than the characterisation really allows. The older actors - Streep, De Niro - are as solid as ever despite having little more to do than sit in comfy chairs (their motivation for choosing the roles, I fear). The younger performers are acceptable too, even though Rock cusses more in the runtime of this film than Richard Roeper has in all the years I've known him. The supporting cast are just props though, and ultimately this is Hoffman's film. Hoffman is at his best here, it's only a shame that "best" for him means just above average. Still, it was an interesting choice to have him play me at all stages of my life. The "old-man prosthetics" were actually pretty good. The childhood scenes were a bit strange however, and I actually had to turn away during the breastfeeding scene. Having to watch a 40-year-old man portray the first meal your mother ever gave you is not an experience I would wish upon anybody lightly. Not even Rob Schneider. As Roger enters the Autumn years of his life, his struggle with thyroid cancer finally costs him his voice, as well as any chance of hosting a TV show again. The film goes far out of its way to tell us that this is a "tender moment". It plays out like a dying season finale: all slow motion and soaring cellos. I almost expected it to turn black and white. Then suddenly it did, much to my dismay. The dreariness was short-lived however, and quickly replaced by anger and confusion. This is a film that just gets so many things wrong. But it's not the factual inaccuracies that bother me. I've always thought that people who complain when it's "different from the book" should just go and read the book (you'll find that it remains quite faithful to the source material). But no, it's the scientific inaccuracies that tick me off. Regardless of what the producers might think, you can't get thyroid cancer from watching too many movies, no matter how dramatic it makes your plot. The film follows Ebert through his achievements (winning the Pullitzer), his failures (the years of alcoholism), and his controversies (having to defend the mediocre review of The Godfather Part II everywhere he goes). He devises the "thumbs up, thumbs down" system (something the film treats as a revelation of Biblical proportions), we all know how it goes. Or so it seems. Frankly the decision to have him die at the end was surprising. No one saw that coming, least of all me. Even in the theatre people kept turning around to check if I was alright. Some people will complain, but in my opinion it was a good move. Too often biopics are fact-based and predictable, but here Jackson has taken the Inglourious Basterds route, and the film is better for it. However, I couldn't shake the feeling that Jackson was wishing me dead. Few men have such opportunities to create fantasy worlds, and he used that opportunity to create one in which I died. Perhaps I was a little hasty when I said his remake of King Kong was the only movie I'd seen that didn't improve on showing a blank screen for the same amount of time...
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- Roger Ebert (born 1942) is Film reviewer-in-chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, and has been since 1967. In itself, that would make him important as the elder statesman of film criticism. In 1975, Ebert teamed up with Gene Siskel, reviewer-in-chief at the Chicago Tribune, to present a film review program called Sneak Previews on the local PBS station. The program went to national syndication in 1978; in 1982 Siskel and Ebert moved to a new network and a new but very similar program called At The Movies with Siskel and Ebert (or vice versa). Unexpectedly, this made him one of the two most important movie critics in America. Because the show was televised, many more Americans saw it than read the reviews in the newspapers; because Ebert and Siskel had credentials in real newspapers in a major city first, and didn't review every movie favorably, they could be taken more seriously than most other movie reviewers on television. Siskel and Ebert's passive-aggressive chemistry was the stuff of legend. It was often thought that due their occasionally hostile on-screen presence when they disagreed, that the two hated each other. However, both considered the other a close friend, even if their relationship was competitive by nature. In fact, on the tenth anniversary of Siskel's death in 2009, Ebert posted a touching remembrance of his friend on his blog. When Siskel died in 1999, Ebert kept on the show with guest hosts until it was settled that it would be At The Movies with Ebert and Roeper, with Richard Roeper, another Chicago Sun-Times critic. This made him the most important living movie critic in America. The show ended in 2008 partially because his throat cancer was preventing him from doing most of the episodes for over a year and a half. (To do film reviews on television, you have to be able to speak). Sadly, due to a few surgeries that successfully eradicated his cancer, Ebert has lost the ability to speak entirely and part of his lower jaw has been removed. Currently he "speaks" via handwritten notes and a computer text-to-speech program. In 2010, a Scottish company created a voice similar to Ebert's own for him to use as his new "voice", using his DVD commentaries (and not his tv show, since there was always background movie noise and Gene Siskel/Richard Roeper interrupting him) and other similar recordings. Furthermore, his last treatments were so tough going with so much physical cost, he has vowed that if the cancer reemerges, he will let it take its course unto death. In 2011, to replace the new At the Movies which had been canceled by its distributor, Ebert and his wife Chaz started their own movie review show on PBS called Ebert Presents At The Movies hosted by Christy Lemire of the Associated Press and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of Mubi, which follows largely the same format as Ebert's other shows. Ebert himself appears in a segment on the show called "Roger's Office" which features voice over narration (either with the help of either his new "voice", or a famous friend such as Werner Herzog or Bill Curtis) of one of his recent reviews or musings. Ebert still writes weekly review columns as well as a daily blog and maintains a very active Twitter account, and every single one of his reviews are available on the Internet, where he is still an influential force in movie criticism's new dominant medium. In recent years, he has also picked up a reputation for being soft on movies; however, his wrath, when deployed, is legendary. I Hated, Hated, HATED This Movie! and Your Movie Sucks are two compilations of his two star and under reviews; a third, titled A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length, has been announced for spring 2012. Roger Ebert has been printing compilations of his movie reviews every year on the year since The Eighties. The series is still going. Also Ebert has written three books of essays about his favorite movies entitled The Great Movies, with these essays also available on his website in a condensed form. He has also written Ebert's Little Movie Glossary and Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary, which are books of Film Tropes in Devils Dictionary form. (An even bigger movie glossary is on his web page.) They could be considered a proto-TV Tropes in a sense (and the Trope Namer for many). Another column he keeps up with is The Movie Answer-Man, where he addresses various topics given to him by reader comments. Sometimes addressing fandom aspects like...
* One reader comment said that a positive review of a certain film gave him Hype Backlash while a negative review of another film made him want to see it. Ebert's reply was that a critic's job is not to pass judgement on a particular movie, but to give the reader an impression as to whether or not they would want to see it themselves.
* Another review he addressed the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny where one comment said that Wolverine would beat Storm in a fight because he could heal, whereas Storm would die once stabbed by Wolverine. His reply was simply a question of how could someone whose power is healing be more powerful than someone who can control the elements. He has also written many books on great films. He has been one of the great proponents of film preservation, letterboxing (back when most televisions were square and most movies in theaters weren't), and giving credit to directors and screenwriters; he probably helped make these issues important. He has also been a proponent of seeing films in theaters, but he's accepted modern viewing habits enough to write DVD reviews. He has done a few audio commentaries notably ones for two of his all time favorite films, Citizen Kane and Dark City, which have appeared on most releases of those films on DVD. He was one of the major opponents to Colorization. He often likes Deliberately Monochrome films, and ones that were monochrome because of when they were made, because of the light and shadow effects. He has also protested censorship in the name of Avoid the Dreaded G Rating or avoiding the dreaded X/NC-17 rating. While he advocated for years for a properly copyrighted A rating to replace X since that sound more respectable, he had hoped NC-17 would become a respectable alternative, and was disappointed when it didn't. He's critical of what he sees as an overuse of 3D technology in recent movies. He was screenwriter for a notoriously bad film, Beyond the Valley of The Dolls. Since that film was released in 1970, this hasn't affected his stature as a critic much. He makes fun of it himself, but says he's proud of it regardless. Gained a bit of flak from the gamer community when he commented video games not being an art form, but he eventually came around and at least decided he's not in a position to judge them. Despite that episode, he is considered as the most One of Us of major critics, as he admires Japanese animated film and has an incredible knowledge of science fiction, which is among his favorite genres. While he claims ignorance to a lot of TV shows due to his heavy schedule of writing and watching films, he's found time to become a fan of the WWE, South Park, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Also a master at uncovering the Freeze-Frame Bonus -- for years, he would spend a week at the University of Colorado's World Affairs Conference dissecting a film frame-by-frame with an audience's help to reveal small details. Now we have his great movies list and his list of his least favorite movies. Incidentally, described several tropes decades before TV Tropes even came into existance. The website of his new show can be found here and there's an archive of the old Siskel & Ebert episodes here.
- Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was film critic who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times; his reviews are syndicated to over 200 newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. He is also a long-time co-host of a syndicated television program featuring his film criticism, first for 23 years with Gene Siskel and since Siskel's death, with Richard Roeper on Ebert & Roeper. In 1975 he became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Ebert has honorary degrees from the University of Colorado, the American Film Institute, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in June 2005, the first professional film critic to receive this honor. Through his newspaper reviews, books, television shows, and lectures, he has contributed considerably to the appreciation of film among members of the North American public. He also runs a special section of his website devoted to what he deems to be great films. Since 1999 Ebert has hosted the annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois.
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