I think even people who have been living under a rock are aware of the passing of Roger Ebert earlier this week from complications due to a reemergence of the cancer that took his jaw and his ability to speak, but never took his voice. I can’t quite remember the last time I’ve seen...
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Some fields die a little bit every time one of their avatars passes away. Rock and roll, for example, lumbers closer to extinction whenever another of its stars of the ’50s, ’60s or ’70s leaves this mortal plane (increasingly, of natural causes). For 20 or so years now, that genre has simply failed to...
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When I was a kid, we didn’t have Rotten Tomatoes or Fandango. There was no IMDB to refer to and there weren’t myriad film blogs and websites to refer to for fresh takes on newly released films. Instead, we had Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, whose “Siskel and Ebert and the Movies” kept us...
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It’ll be a short one this week as there really isn’t that much going on that doesn’t involve movies that are open in Orlando yet. The thing that gave me the red ass this week was all of this NRA bullshit about movies and video games making people violent, and the ridiculous idea that...
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Every 10 years dating back to 1952, the British Film Institute’s official magazine, Sight & Sound, issues a challenge worldwide to filmmakers and critics: give us your top 10 films of all time, and they have. Over the years, it has become widely regarded as one of the finest curated lists of “best” films (though, I...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about film traditions lately. Maybe because of all of this talk about film being dead, maybe not. Maybe because I’d misheard and thought AMC would be showing Gone with the Wind all day on Thanksgiving instead of The Godfather and The Godfather II. I had a momentary spot of...
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Aside from writing duties, I spent much of the week focusing on two endevours: reading Roger Ebert’s memoir, Life Itself, and devouring the Star Wars: The Completely Saga box set. Firstly, Ebert’s book was a joy to read. Usually biographies are kind of a slog to get through unless I’m intensely interested in the...
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Well, Super 8, JJ Abrams’ homage to the Spielberg monster thriller, hit screens this weekend and actually outperformed its expectations despite an odd marketing campaign and slugging tracking. That’s a rare thing indeed in this day and age. Go figure. I guess JJ Abrams gets the last laugh on all of the people who...
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Fellow cinephiles knew our pain as we watched Roger Ebert‘s post-Lyons revival of At the Movies get so warmly received virtually everywhere else in the country without getting to see for ourselves. Sure, it’s been posted online, piecemeal, but until my DVR has the words “Ebert” in its clutches, something seemed, well, wrong. That’s...
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Over the upcoming weekend, most of the top 50 markets will be greeted by two new faces on their televisions as Christy Lemire of The Associated Press and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of Mubi.com take over on the balcony made famous by Siskel and Ebert. Not Orlando, though.
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