Roger Ebert: Blog
- A statement from Chaz Ebert
Thursday - 04/04/2013 - 06:45 PMCHICAGO, April 4, 2013 -- Chaz Ebert issued the following statement Thursday about the passing of her husband, Roger Ebert, a day after he celebrated 46 years as a film critic:"I am devastated by the loss of my love, Roger...
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Friday - 03/22/2013 - 03:57 PMPRESS RELEASE: CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Terrence Malick's 1978 film "Days of Heaven" won an Oscar for best cinematography, and Roger Ebert likely found that no surprise. It is "above all one of the most beautiful films ever made," Ebert...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A shooting in Harsh Park
Thursday - 03/07/2013 - 08:11 PMWhen I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I must have driven past the little park a few times. Hyde Park, where the University is located, is a neighborhood including fraternity houses, foundation headquarters, school department...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What was my Aunt Martha trying to ask me?
Friday - 02/22/2013 - 11:14 AMAfter she had the heart attack out in Michigan on Thanksgiving 1988, I stood by her bedside in the recovery room and she tried so hard to tell me something, but it just didn't work.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Outguess Ebert in an easy year
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 07:08 PMContest entry form is here. This year's Outguess Ebert contest seems a little like shooting fish in a barrel. For the first time in many a year, maybe ever, I think I've guessed every one correctly.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Weaker at the broken places
Saturday - 02/02/2013 - 08:50 PMThey are two people accustomed to ruling their physical domains with muscle, sex and beauty. They don't ask themselves a lot of questions about what could stand some improvement in their inner lives.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Pacino, Walken and Arkin: Three stand up guys in a one-act play in an empty noir city at night
Thursday - 01/24/2013 - 07:07 PMAs told to Roger Ebert Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin walk into a hotel room, and that sounds like the set-up for a joke. It's more like a long-delayed punchline.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Orson Welles young, old, drunk, sober, and plenty pissed off about frozen peas
Tuesday - 01/22/2013 - 10:12 PMI'm deep in my next blog entry, but thirst for "Speed 3" has slaked, so I offer this in the meantime. RE ¶ Booked into the Auditorium Theater in Chicago in the 1930s, Orson Welles was confronted by a...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A pretty good set of nominees
Thursday - 01/10/2013 - 11:28 AMThe Oscars are the most important way the American film industry can honor what it considers the year's best work. But for millions of movie lovers all over the globes, they are something else: A show.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ebert's Top Movies of 2012
Thursday - 12/27/2012 - 11:49 AMA funny thing happened on the way to the Oscars. Not to the Oscars. To me. I sustained a hairline fracture of my left hip. I didn't fall. I didn't break it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A Leave of Presence
Tuesday - 04/02/2013 - 10:37 PMThank you. Forty-six years ago on April 3, 1967, I became the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Some of you have read my reviews and columns and even written to me since that time.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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Wednesday - 03/20/2013 - 06:16 PMIndivdual presentations of awards by the critics....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - My wife Chaz, the television personality
Wednesday - 02/27/2013 - 05:50 PMSearching for mention of "Amore" on our 2012 PBS program "Ebert Presents at the Movies," I was pointed by Google to one of Chaz's video reports. I remembered liking her video at the time, started noodling through all of...
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Monday - 02/11/2013 - 08:30 PMThe first Chicago bar I drank in was the Old Town Ale House. That bar was destroyed by fire in the 1960s, the customers hosed off, and the Ale House moved directly across the street to its present location,...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - "Sheep, Galloway, Sheep!" Paul Galloway, a beloved legend
Sunday - 02/03/2013 - 04:03 PMPaul Galloway as Tootsie on Michigan Ave. (Photo by Jack Lane) Chicago Sun-Times / February 3, 2009 We will never hear the Sheep Story again. Nor will we enjoy his presence in a room, which was an invitation to good...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gabby Giffords made me cry. America? And you?
Wednesday - 01/30/2013 - 06:24 PMI sense the debate over gun control is entering into a new phase and the gun lobby is losing. After Obama's second victory, the wind changed. Republicans are suffering uncertainty, and many of them grow restless.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Orson Welles young, old, drunk, sober, and plenty pissed off about frozen peas
Tuesday - 01/22/2013 - 10:12 PMI'm deep in my next blog entry, but thirst for in "Speed 3" has slaked, so I offer this in the meantime. RE ¶ Booked into the Auditorium Theater in Chicago in the 1930s, Orson Welles was confronted by...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - "Speed 3"--Winner of my 1999 contest
Thursday - 01/17/2013 - 09:40 PMNo favorable review I've ever written has inspired more disbelief than my three stars for "Speed 2." Even its star, Sandra Bullock, started mentioning in interviews her disgust with herself for agreeing to star in it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The death of a young paparazzo
Thursday - 01/03/2013 - 02:31 PMNight on a highway somewhere. A hat and a shoe. In its very simplicity the photograph signals it has some hidden significance. The caption explains that the two objects on Sepulveda Blvd.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ebert's Best Ten Movies of 2012
Wednesday - 12/26/2012 - 05:15 PMA funny thing happened on the way to the Oscars. Not to the Oscars. To me. From where it stands right now, I haven't seen and will not be able to seen a few films that are widely considered...
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- Roger Ebert (1942-2013)
Thursday - 04/04/2013 - 03:40 PMRoger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated. For a film with a daring director, a talented cast, a captivating plot or, ideally, all three, there could be no better advocate than Roger Ebert, who passionately celebrated and promoted excellence in film while deflating the awful, the derivative, or the merely mediocre with an observant eye, a sharp wit and a depth of knowledge that delighted his millions of readers and viewers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New seasons with new names
Monday - 03/18/2013 - 12:56 PMI have watched with a kind of petrified fascination in recent years as the world creeps closer to what looks to me like disastrous climate change. The poles are melting.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How I am a Roman Catholic
Friday - 03/01/2013 - 07:44 PMIn the dark hours of Thursday morning, February 28, I awoke to find CNN featuring a continuous shot of a helicopter. The network cut between a close-up and a distant dot.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A boy, his dog, and a puddle
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 08:03 AMI believe it was the writer W. G. Sebald who said: "Men and animals regard one another across a gulf of mutual incomprehension." No animal seems to comprehend us better than the dog.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Best Bar in the World
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 07:46 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The ecstasy of the sculptor Herzog
Saturday - 01/26/2013 - 11:04 PMA man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me "A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane   That man can be found at the center of Werner Herzog's films....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jeni le Gon: The first black woman signed by Hollywood was livin' and dancin' in great big way
Wednesday - 01/23/2013 - 06:30 PMMy good Sun-Times pal from the 1970s at the Chicago Sun-Times, Cynthia Dagnal, wrote me today: "A friend in London sent me this, obituary from the London indpendent and I was stunned to see that Jeni Le Gon attended...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A dozen good documentaries
Sunday - 01/13/2013 - 05:26 PMHere is a collection of a dozen of the best documentaries I saw in 2012. It's not a "best of the year" list. Just some good memories of these films.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Faster, Quentin! Thrill! Thrill!
Monday - 01/07/2013 - 03:14 PMConsider now the curious character of Dr. King Schultz. He is an itinerant dentist who works from his little wagon, traveling the backroads of the pre-Civil War South. As Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" opens, we see a line of...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Zero Dark Thirty: A hunch that paid off
Wednesday - 12/26/2012 - 10:21 PM✮✮✮ by Roger Ebert Osama bin Laden is dead, which everybody knows, and the principal facts leading up to that are also well-known. The decision to market "Zero Dark Thirty" as a thriller therefore takes a certain amount of...
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