Who is Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America."Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing voice and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specia...Read Full Biography of Roger Ebert
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- Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
- The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
- It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
- Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
- It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
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Tha_dingus: i love roger ebert's review of halloween iii. he payed such little attention to the movie, that he thought the hospital robot assassin near the beginning was michael myers.Dcuniverse: in his one-star review of 1987’s like father, like son, roger ebert described the film as “one of the most desperate comedies i've ever seen” and “dismally, painfully not funny.” but guess what, roger? i, at the time a child and the film’s target audience, loved it. checkmate.
Anitaleirfall: the movie is a classic case of "it's not what the film is about but how it is about it," as roger ebert would say. cries and whispers is unrelentingly claustrophobic, taking place almost entirely in a few rooms of the sisters' childhood manor...
Georgicusf: when you hear ‘ebert’ you think ‘roger’, i think ‘john david’ we are not the same
Drematurgy: roger ebert and his take on video games as not art. does anyone remember him? he was a big name film critic.
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