Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebertwas an American film critic and 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. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collected reviews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 June 1942
CityUrbana, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The reason (Burton) wanted to make 'Ed Wood' is that Ed Wood had so much fun making movies. And that's where Ed Wood and Tim Burton connect. Tim Burton makes films that are a lot better, but he doesn't make them with any more love.
Film theory has nothing to do with film.
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.
Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.
Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
A film is a terrible thing to waste.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.