Roger ebert

Roger Ebert was an American film critic.

He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing voice and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," [4] and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America. Starting in and continuing for decades, Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped popularize nationally televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews , followed by several variously named At the Movies programs on commercial TV broadcast syndication. The two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films.

Roger ebert

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Roger Ebert Writer Actor Producer. Play trailer Life Itself Roger Joseph Ebert was the all-time best-known, most successful movie critic in cinema history, when one thinks of his establishing a rapport with both serious cineastes and the movie-going public and reaching more movie fans via television and print than any other critic. He became the first and only movie critic to win a Pulitzer Prize it would be 28 years before another film critic, Stephen Hunter, would win journalism's top tchotchke. His opinions likely were relied on by more movie-goers than any other critic in cinema history, making Roger Ebert the gold standard for film criticism. He was married to Chaz Ebert. Roger Ebert died on April 4, , in Chicago, Illinois. Add to list. Photos

Archived from the original on June 5, roger ebert, The Great Movies 4. Werner Roger ebert told Entertainment Weekly that Ebert was "a soldier of the cinema": "I always loved Roger for being the good soldier, not only the good soldier of cinema, but he was a wounded soldier who for years in his affliction held out and plowed on and soldiered on and held the outpost that was given up by almost everyone: The monumental shift now is that intelligent, roger ebert, deep discourse about cinema has been something that has been vanishing over the last maybe two decades

I was so sad to hear of the death of celebrated filmmaker William "Billy" Friedkin, a director who made one of my favorite films of all time, and who was much admired by my late husband, Roger. I send the deepest condolences to his wife, Sherry Lansing , and their family. I knew both Billy and Sherry as lovely, decent people who, in addition to their talent in the film world, were also philanth. Discover new books on Goodreads. Sign in with Facebook Sign in options. Join Goodreads. Nonfiction , Film.

Updated at p. ET: Roger Ebert, the longtime critic who popularized film criticism with his "thumbs up, thumbs down" reviews in print and on television, died on Thursday. He was Ebert revealed this week that he suffered a recurrence of the cancer that he had battled in recent years. One of the greats has left us," the Chicago Sun-Times tweeted in announcing the news.

Roger ebert

As a pretentious twentysomething film buff, not yet professional grade, the only thing that mattered to me was that it was a Lynch picture. Yeah, the prose is clunky and the dialogue often clunkier, but I liked much of it, particularly the way it threaded its social commentary with enough scenes of action and cliff-hanging suspense to fill an old-time serial. The new film adaptation of the book, directed by Denis Villeneuve from a script he wrote with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts , visualizes those scenes magnificently. Or, I should say, two-thirds of the book. Throughout, the filmmaker, working with amazing technicians including cinematographer Greig Fraser , editor Joe Walker , and production designer Patrice Vermette , manages to walk the thin line between grandeur and pomposity in between such unabashed thrill-generating sequences as the Gom Jabbar test, the spice herder rescue, the thopter-in-a-storm nail-biter, and various sandworm encounters and attacks. Most of the time, anyway. Zendaya is an apt, a better than apt, Chani.

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Charlotte Sometimes the Movie. He liked to refer to his job as 'the national dream beat,' and say that in reviewing movies he was covering what people hoped for, dreamed about, and feared. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. September 4, Siskel and Ebert. But that was after my father's death. Retrieved January 20, Ada Louise Huxtable Harold C. It never went anywhere, but we both believed it was a good idea. As the show's stars became household names, their influence took off. It's that simple. Ebert died on April 4, , at age 70, in Chicago, Illinois. Roger Ebert died on April 4, , in Chicago, Illinois.

Despite the seeming limitations of serving as the co-host of a syndicated TV review show and plying his trade in the Midwest where distribution of independent or foreign-language films can be spotty at best , Ebert helped shine a light on deserving films to millions.

Hated it. As a child, Roger Ebert loved to write, and thanks to a close relationship with his aunt Martha, he developed an appreciation for movies. It is also poetry and prose, muckraking and expose, journalism and polemic. Every other week I have revisited a great movie, and the response has been encouraging. Each year from to , Ebert published Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion retitled Roger Ebert's Video Companion for its last five installments , which collected all of his movie reviews to that point. Archived from the original on July 19, They also championed independent and foreign-language films, as well as documentaries otherwise doomed to fall through the cracks. The site, operated by Ebert Digital a partnership between Chaz and friend Josh Golden , continues to publish new material written by a group of critics who were selected by Ebert before his death. Ebert was an obvious choice. August Wilson. Retrieved March 8, — via RogerEbert. Tools Tools. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything concerned with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and the old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. March 27,