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Ebert love
Apr. 13th, 2008 07:24 am
I love Roger Ebert. The thing with movie critics is you just gotta find the one that you tend to agree with and then trust them. Ebert is mine. He loves all kinds of movies, including movies that are "so bad they are good" and horror movies. And he's not a cheat who pretends like he liked something before it became a classic. Check out his 1978 review of Dawn of the Dead ("...one of the best horror movies ever made.") I also like how he'll talk politics openly. His appearances on Howard Stern are always great. Sadly, he's leaving his tv show and A.O. Scott wrote this nice essay about him...
Film: Roger Ebert, the Critic Behind the Thumb
By A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times, April 13, 2008
WHAT is film criticism? This may sound like a lofty philosophical question, but I suspect to most people it has a down-to-earth, empirical answer. Film criticism is two guys (and usually it is guys) arguing: shifting in their seats, rolling their eyes, pointing fingers and interrupting, and every now and then agreeing. Or that’s the way it looks on television at least.
One of the guys who made it look that way, who made the crazy idea that movie critics could thrive on TV seem like a no-brainer, recently announced his departure from the airwaves. On April 1 Roger Ebert published a letter to readers of The Chicago Sun-Times that was essentially a farewell to the long-running, widely syndicated weekly program that has made him not simply the best-known movie reviewer in America, but the virtual embodiment of this curious profession.
But the real news in Mr. Ebert’s letter was his return to regular written criticism. A recurrence of cancer of the salivary gland in the summer of 2006 might have left him unable to speak — a problem recent surgery failed to solve — but he has hardly lost his voice.
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Film: Roger Ebert, the Critic Behind the Thumb
By A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times, April 13, 2008
WHAT is film criticism? This may sound like a lofty philosophical question, but I suspect to most people it has a down-to-earth, empirical answer. Film criticism is two guys (and usually it is guys) arguing: shifting in their seats, rolling their eyes, pointing fingers and interrupting, and every now and then agreeing. Or that’s the way it looks on television at least.
One of the guys who made it look that way, who made the crazy idea that movie critics could thrive on TV seem like a no-brainer, recently announced his departure from the airwaves. On April 1 Roger Ebert published a letter to readers of The Chicago Sun-Times that was essentially a farewell to the long-running, widely syndicated weekly program that has made him not simply the best-known movie reviewer in America, but the virtual embodiment of this curious profession.
But the real news in Mr. Ebert’s letter was his return to regular written criticism. A recurrence of cancer of the salivary gland in the summer of 2006 might have left him unable to speak — a problem recent surgery failed to solve — but he has hardly lost his voice.
( Read More )
