In memoriam Roger Ebert. Ebertfest Spot.. for Rog. Michael Mirasol. Vimeo. A selection of tributes and memories from those who knew, and read, Roger Ebert. More will be added as we collect them: “For a generation of Americans — and especially Chicagoans — Roger was the movies. When he didn’t like a film, he was honest; when he did, he was effusive — capturing the unique power of the movies to take us somewhere magical.“Even amidst his own battles with cancer, Roger was as productive as he was resilient — continuing to share his passion and perspective with the world.

The movies won’t be the same without Roger, and our thoughts and prayers are with Chaz and the rest of the Ebert family.”. President Barack Obama, April 4, 2. Watch Zombie Ninjas Vs Black Ops Online Fandango here. Roger’s customary seat at the Lake Street Screening Room, before a press screening of Terence Malick’s “To the Wonder,” the morning of April 5, 2. Bill Stamets)“Though he was viewed as a movie critic with the soul of a poet, he also had killer business instincts. A journalist since the 1.

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Just as Jay- Z is more than a musician, Roger Ebert was much more than a guy who wrote about movies. He was a newspaper writer, a television personality, a public speaker, a book author, an event impresario and a Web publisher. And through his Web site, Roger. Ebert. com, he is still with us even though he is gone, demonstrating the kind of stickiness and durability that media brands crave.”.

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There will be a long, long echo [of his work] reverberating for a long, long time… I’ve always tried to be a good soldier of cinema myself, so of course since he’s gone, I will plow on, as I have plowed on all my life, but I will do what I have to do as if Roger was looking over my shoulder. And I am not gonna disappoint him.”. I was born inside the movie of my life’: the opening words of [his memoir] ‘Life Itself’ announce both the crucial cinematic lure of magic images on a big screen and Roger’s talent for analyzing his own adventures and limitations. Given his gift of gab, that movie must have been a talkie.

He fits William F. Buckley Jr.’s description of Roger’s fellow Midwesterner Rush Limbaugh: ‘preternaturally fluent.’ One imagines him popping out of the womb and saying, ‘Hi, Mom! Well, that was an interesting nine- month movie I just sat through. The visuals were lacking; it was more like radio, really.

But the soothing darkness well prepared me for a life of sitting in movie theaters. All in all, I give the experience two enthusiastic, tiny thumbs up!’”. Richard Corliss. “Virtually alone among his generation of journalists, Ebert saw the substantive potential of social media early on and translated his fame in print and on TV to the Internet, becoming a Twitter trailblazer and a mentor who showed the rest of us in this imploding profession not just how to survive but how to prosper in the digital age. He’s up there with Will Rogers, H. L. Mencken and A. J. Liebling, and not too far short of Mark Twain, as one of the great plainspoken commentators on American culture and American life.

What was so wonderful about Roger as a critic was the fact that he was never a snob and never condescended to anyone, while also being an immensely knowledgeable student of film who avoided the faux- populist reverse snobbery of so many of the critics who followed him into television. He wrote in clear, declarative newspaper prose aimed first and foremost at his Chicagoland readership — ‘I go into the movie, I watch it, and I ask myself what happened to me’ — but was just as likely to lavish praise on foreign films or tiny indies or cheesy exploitation flicks as on Hollywood star packages.”. Andrew O'Hehir. “If there was any downside to [Siskel and Ebert’s] television success, it was that so many people only knew them from that medium and never sought out their printed reviews.

I was one of those people. It was only with the invention of the Internet that I began reading Roger’s reviews, on his comprehensive website, and marveling at his writing skill. He is the only critic I know who unashamedly drew on his life experiences to explain his feelings about a given movie. It wasn’t a gimmick, and it never made him seem self- absorbed, just disarmingly candid.”. Leonard Maltin. “CHICAGO—Calling the overall human experience ‘poignant,’ ‘thought- provoking,’ and a ‘complete tour de force,’ film critic Roger Ebert praised existence Thursday as ‘an audacious and thrilling triumph.’ ‘While not without its flaws, life, from birth to death, is a masterwork, and an uplifting journey that both touches the heart and challenges the mind,’ said Ebert, adding that while the totality of all humankind is sometimes ‘a mess in places,’ it strives to be a magnum opus and, according to Ebert, largely succeeds at this goal.”. Press Play video tribute to Roger’s Sight & Sound Critics Poll selections.

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He saw, and felt, and described the movies more effectively, more cinematically, and more warmly than just about anyone writing about anything. Even his pans had a warmth to them. Even when you disagreed with Roger you found yourself imagining the movie he saw, and loved (or hated) more than you did.“I came late to film criticism in Chicago, after writing about the theater.

Roger loved the theater. His was a theatrical personality: a raconteur, a spinner of dinner- table stories, a man who was not shy about his accomplishments. But he made room in that theatrical, improbable, outsized life for others.”.

Michael Phillips. Chicago Tribune. “Ebert enjoyed his status as the world’s most famous film critic but did not believe it was fully deserved. When I wrote an article calling him the finest film critic we will ever see, he sent me an email telling me off. I am not the best film critic in the world,’ he wrote.

Though I might be the hardest- working.’ He was right on the second count and wrong on the first.“His rules for writing were simple and obvious to anyone who knew him: never be dull, never be dishonest and never miss a deadline. This is what he taught me about film criticism and this is what he taught me about life.”. Scott Jordan Harris. Far- Flung Correspondent, The Telegraph.

I grew up in Kansas City and Dallas in the seventies and eighties. To put it mildly, these were not film towns. They had precious few art- house theaters. Roger Ebert’s review show with Gene Siskel, which ran on PBS and then in syndication under various titles, was my gateway into cinematic worlds I might not have otherwise explored, and that road led to my becoming a film and TV critic. Watch House By The Lake Download Full. Siskel and Ebert had as much to do with stoking my interest in films and film criticism as anyone I knew personally. Maybe more.”. Matt Zoller Seitz. Fast- forward to my adolescent years.

Roger and Gene (in color) were on Channel 1. Abbott and Costello, Douglas Sirk and Yankees baseball. Roger had also become syndicated in the New York newspaper, so I could finally partake of his prose. It read as if he were in the room with me, having a conversation.

Roger Ebert was educating me about foreign films, arty- fartsy fare and blockbusters. But he was also telling me a story.

There was no stuffy pretense to his words; he wrote in a relaxed, engaging style I wanted to emulate. This was odd at first, since I usually sided with Siskel. But great writing doesn’t need to be agreed with to be admired or even cherished. I had found my writer idol.”. Odie Henderson. Demander, Roger.

Ebert. com contributor. But after I met him, I, surprisingly, admired the man more than the critic. What an awesome human being! He was so kind and caring, always listening, always watching. He knew he had the power to touch people’s lives, and he did so as often as he could, and with such humbleness. For instance, what need did this man have to give people around the world a chance to speak up, on his blog?“What need did he have to contact me, saying he “liked your mind and style”? He did it as a simple act of kindness, but it profoundly changed my life.