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Autumn

Turtles all the way down — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:09:22 -0800

Autumn, by Roger Ebert. The season of new beginnings and the forever-remembered smell of burning leaves. Ebert, in his journal, seems to be wrapping up the details of his life.

Books Do Furnish a Life

ocherdraco — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:54:42 -0800

Roger Ebert on the owning of books.

Gates of Heaven

vronsky — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:20:51 -0800

Clips from the Errol Morris documentary Gates of Heaven which Roger Ebert named one of the ten best films of all time. Lady in the Doorway ll Music Man ll Gates of Heaven ll Couples Scene ll Humans cannot be this way ll Say it out loud

Thumbs Up, not Bottoms Up

kmz — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:05:12 -0800

My Name is Roger, and I'm an alcoholic. Roger Ebert talks about AA.

The O'Reilly Procedure

mecran01 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:30:39 -0800

The O'Reilly Procedure Roger Ebert waxes nostalgic about a calmer, more rational mediasphere and dissects the rhetorical strategies of Bill O'Reilly. "Sometimes O'Reilly is compared with Father Coughlin, a popular far-right radio commentator in the 1930s who fanned the flames against Roosevelt and warned about immigration and "foreigners," by which it was understood he meant primarily Jews. O'Reilly objects to such a comparison, and certainly there is no reason to consider him anti-Semitic. But a team of media researchers at Indiana University studied every editorial broadcast by O'Reilly during a six-month period and found a similar nativist cast."

Beyond the Major Arcana of the Dolls

hermitosis — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:09:59 -0800

How delicious is the Beyond The Valley of the Dolls Tarot Deck? Even the man who wrote the movie gave the deck two thumbs up. The deck is by Howard Hallis, who is currently working on a picture of everything (previously on MeFi). He claims to have also sent the cards to filmmaker Russ Meyer: "He called me from his house in Palm Springs and loved them so much he wanted me to come by and have lunch with him. He told me to bring my girlfriend too... especially if she had big tits. Unfortunately, I still haven't made it up his way."

Boom!

Joe Beese — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:52:29 -0800

Tennessee Williams said it was the best film version of any of his plays. Roger Ebert called it "awkward and hopeless on its most fundamental level". John Waters calls it a major influence on the development of his taste. John Barry's soundtrack has been reissued.

Ending up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.

The Card Cheat — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:35:59 -0800

The day will come when the words of Shakespeare are no longer known. Roger Ebert looks back on a long career and waxes philosophical.

"It fills me with contempt."

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:11:08 -0800

Roger Ebert gives Ben Stein a spanking. Ben Stein's movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" has displeased Ebert, but he can consider himself lucky: the film's climax culminates in a debate between Stein and Richard Dawkins, and they've had a long and colorful history of exchanges. (Previously: 1, 2, 3)

Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult!

An Infinity Of Monkeys — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:24:20 -0800

Death To Film Critics! Hail The CelebCult! "A newspaper film critic is like a canary in a coal mine. When one croaks, get the hell out. The lengthening toll of former film critics acts as a poster child for the self-destruction of American newspapers, which once hoped to be more like the New York Times and now yearn to become more like the National Enquirer. We used to be the town crier. Now we are the neighborhood gossip."

Roger's little rule book

Knappster — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:27:45 -0800

It is acceptable, but rarely, to join in a general audience uproar, as at the first Cannes press screening of "The Brown Bunny." Even then, no cupping your hand under your armpit and producing fart noises. Roger Ebert's little rule book.

Roger Ebert to Jay Marriotti

An Infinity Of Monkeys — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:02:41 -0800

An open letter to sports columnist Jay Mariotti , who resigned from the Sun-Times and lashed out during a TV interview announcing that newspapers were dead. (via Sports Filter)

Faster Roger! Write! Write!

willmize — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:49:45 -0800

Roger Ebert to return to writing movie reviews. Love him, hate him, disagree with him, worship him, whatever, but Pulitzer Prize winning movie critic Roger Ebert, after several operations that have left him without the power of speech, will return to writing movie reviews shortly after his 10th Annual movie festival, Ebertfest. Me, personally, I'm happy as heck about this.

"f I knew what I was going to do that far down the road, there’d be no point in doing it.”

Brainy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:32:54 -0800

I never saw Simon Birch but I found this interview Roger Ebert did with Ian Michael Smith really amazing. I don't know if it was how comfortable Ian is with sci-fi-ing up his body, how the two of them used technology to overcome their current physical conditions, the discussions of "disability blogospheres" or just how happy Roger seems to be in this conversation but the whole thing made me smile...and something made me think MeFi would agree.

Scenes from a Posthumous Potshot

jonp72 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:05:00 -0800

In Scenes from an Overrated Career, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum writes a rare New York Times op-ed arguing that the work of recently deceased director Ingmar Bergman is overvalued compared to Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson. Both Roger Ebert and David Bordwell respond to Rosenbaum's takedown of Bergman, while Rosenbaum writes a brief eulogy blog post on Bergman. Meanwhile, another blogger discusses how Antonioni and Bergman hated each other despite recent obits that have paired them together.

AFI Top 100

ztdavis — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:30:59 -0800

The American Film Institute decided the need for ~~more money~~ an update to their 1998 list of the 100 Greatest Movies was so pressing that they made a new list. Ebert (and friends) ask where's Fargo?. The IHT wonders why the past decade has only spawned four new, worthy movies. And, generally, no one seems super excited about it. (some links go to wikipedia to avoid registration on AFI's site).

"I ain't a pretty boy no more"

kirkaracha — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:30:06 -0800

"I ain’t a pretty boy no more" Roger Ebert is determined to attend his Overlooked Film Festival tomorrow.

We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I'm not going to miss my festival.

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Thumbs up, sir.

Sticherbeast — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:37:43 -0800

Get Well Roger Flickr Group. Roger Ebert, still recovering from an arterial burst following surgery to remove cancer near his jaw, could use a little love. Show some, and be a gigantic nerd, by taking a picture of yourself giving a "thumbs up" and uploading it to this Flickr Group. They'll be sending the whole spiel to the good sir himself after they have enough pictures uploaded. Previously.

Sir Lord, meet Miss Boop-a-Doop-a-Dee

yankeefog — Mon, 09 May 2005 09:08:51 -0800

In 30 years of going to Cannes, Roger Ebert has witnessed Francis Ford Coppola suffering from post-Apocolypse insanity and learned Jerry Lewis's secret for preventing riots--but the most interesting character he ever met there was a loudmouthed, fast-talking Texan named Silver Dollar Baxter with an uncanny gift for bluffing...

Watching movies in a difficult year

Faint of Butt — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:18:06 -0800

On the meaning of life... and movies: The radiation made it difficult for me to handle solid food, and I existed on a product named Ensure, which kept everything humming along. Very early on the first morning in Cannes I woke early, as I always do, and wandered, as I always do, down to the all-night cafe by the port, and ordered, as I always do, a croissant and cafe au lait. I dunked the croissant into the coffee, as I always do, and ate it, and that was the beginning of real food again.

Roger Ebert describes his battles with cancer--and his love of movies--in the introduction to his 2005 Movie Yearbook.

An interview with Lee Marvin

GriffX — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:55:17 -0800

"The dog gets no Pernod in this house!" An interview with Lee Marvin, by Roger Ebert, back in 1970. Man, what a character.

Roger Ebert

realityblurred — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:14:41 -0800

Roger Ebert's new web site, launched by the Chicago Sun-Times, includes nearly 10,000 pieces of the newly svelte critic's writing, including more than 5,500 film reviews dating back to 1967. Love him or hate him, that's quite a (free) resource. [via TV Barn]

Why Gollum shouldn't win an Oscar.

tranquileye — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:23:28 -0800

Why Gollum shouldn't win an Oscar. Many Lord of the Rings fans think Andy Serkis should be nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the films, but as Roger Ebert writes, the actor shouldn't benefit because animators kept Gollum from falling into the Uncanny Valley.

Roger Ebert Goes to More Than The Movies

fold_and_mutilate — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:22:49 -0800

"I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out....When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: 'Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?'" Roger Ebert chats about dissent, celebrities, the power of film to effect change, and Moore.

Glamour

Quartermass — Sun, 23 Mar 2003 06:34:18 -0800

I had a really cool site on Wednesday to post, but stopped myself due the (prime time) start of the War, out of respect for MeFi users that have loved ones on either side of the line. It wasn't apprpriate. One of the things I have noticed on this site since last Wednesday is a very strong bifurcation of posts - those who are staunchly anti IraqFilter - who post as if nothing is going on, and those who can't seem to focus on anything else. This seems to be a struggle going on in other circles as well, as seen in this column by Roger Ebert, who discusses the appropriateness of tonights Oscars. The show must go on, right?