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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate writing style 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 analyt…
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culture · American film critic and author (1942–2013) · screenwriter · film critic · journalist · reporter · writer · presenter · television presenter · also Roger Ebert, Roger Joseph Ebert, Ebert
Born 18 June 1942 · Died 4 April 2013 · Q212173
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2026· 8 entries
“I believe art is created by an artist. If you change it, you become the artist,”
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“Through a mental process that has by now become almost instinctive, those nuns guided me into supporting universal health care, the rightness of labor unions, fair taxation, prudence in warfare, kindness in peacetime, help for the hungry and homeless, and equal opportunity for the races and genders. It continues to surprise me that many who consider themselves religious seem to tilt away from me.”
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“It is quite possible a game could someday be great art.”
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“It is fueled by speech, and I”
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“They were a reminder, if I needed one, that although Rob Schneider might (in my opinion) have made a bad movie, he is not a bad man, and no doubt tried to make a wonderful movie, and hopes to again. I hope so, too.”
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“our civilization is starving for new images.”
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“For the first five years that we knew one another, Gene Siskel and I hardly spoke. Then it seemed like we never stopped.”
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2015· 2 entries
The Guardian: Josh Gad to play Roger Ebert in comedy about making of Russ Meyer sex satire
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The Guardian: Crush of the week: Roger Ebert
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2014· 6 entries
The Guardian: Life Itself review – a delightful tribute to US film critic Roger Ebert
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The Guardian: Roger Ebert man who revolutionised movie criticism gets his own film
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The Guardian: Life Itself review – documentary tribute to film critic Roger Ebert
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The Guardian: The real Roger Ebert revealed, ‘warts, waistline and all’
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The Guardian: Statue commemorating thumbs-up film critic Roger Ebert unveiled
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The Guardian: Roger Ebert: Academy pays tribute at 2014 Oscars
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2013· 7 entries
The Guardian: Roger Ebert: film luminaries pay tribute
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The Guardian: Mike Leigh on Roger Ebert: 'His analysis of my films was consistently profound'
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The Guardian: Roger Ebert's funeral targeted by Westboro Baptist church
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The Guardian: Roger Ebert: share your favourite quotes
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The Guardian: Roger Ebert dies at 70: 'Roger was the movies,' says Obama
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Died 2013-04-04.
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Ebert published his last Great Movies essay, for The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
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2012· 3 entries
In a July 2012 blog entry, Ebert wrote about Chaz, "She fills my horizon, she is the great fact of my life, she has my love, she saved me from the fate of living out my life alone, which is where I seemed to be heading...
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“She fills my horizon, she is the great fact of my life, she has my love, she saved me from the fate of living out my life alone, which is where I seemed to be heading... She has been with me in sickness and in health, certainly far more sickness than we could have anticipated. I will be with her, strengthened by her example. She continues to make my life possible, and her presence fills me with love and a deep security. That”
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Chose 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Apocalypse Now', Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, The General, Raging Bull, Tokyo Story, The Tree of Life and Vertigo
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2011· 4 entries
Awarded Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2011).
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With Ebert contributing a review voiced by Bill Kurtis in a brief segment called "Roger's Office," as well as traditional reviews in the At the Movies format by Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
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By 2011, Ebert had a prosthetic chin made to hide some of the damage done by his many surgeries.
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Published his memoir, Life Itself, in which he describes his childhood, his career, his struggles with alcoholism and cancer, his loves and friendships
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2010· 2 entries
Ebert appeared with Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies during their "The Essentials" series
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But conceded that he should not have expressed this skepticism without being more familiar with the actual experience of playing them
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2009· 2 entries
Ebert reported that he and Roeper would soon announce a new movie-review program and reiterated this plan after Disney announced that the program's last episode would air in August 2010
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Ebert invited Ramin Bahrani to join him in analyzing Bahrani's film Chop Shop a frame at a time
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2008· 4 entries
Ebert underwent further surgery in January 2008 to try to restore his voice and address the complications from his previous surgeries.
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Ebert underwent further surgery in April 2008 after fracturing his hip in a fall.
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Having lost his voice, he turned to blogging to express himself
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That he gave higher ratings on average than other critics, though he said this was in part because he considered a rating of 3 out of 4 stars to be the general threshold for a film to get a "thumbs up
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2007· 1 entry
Prior to his Overlooked Film Festival, he posted a picture of his new condition
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2006· 4 entries
Leaving him severely disfigured and unable to speak or eat normally
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Cancer surgery resulted in his losing his ability to eat and speak
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Ebert noted his own "tendency to place what I now consider the year's best film in second place, perhaps because I was trying to make some kind of point with my top pick," adding, "In 1968, I should have ranked 2001 abov
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Ebert made his first public appearance since mid-2006 at Ebertfest on April 25, 2007.
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2005· 2 entries
Ebert opined that video games are not art, and are inferior to media created through authorial control, such as film and literature, stating, "video games can be elegant, subtle, sophisticated, challenging and visually w
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Patrick Goldstein wrote that the year's Best Picture Nominees were "ignored, unloved and turned down flat by most of the same studios that
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2004· 1 entry
Ebert appeared in Sesame Street's direct-to-video special A Celebration of Me, Grover, delivering a review of the Monsterpiece Theater segment "The King and I"
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2002· 3 entries
Ebert was diagnosed with cancer of the salivary glands
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And originally underwritten by the Chicago Sun-Times, remains online as an archive of his published writings and reviews while also hosting new material written by a group of critics who were selected by Ebert before his
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Ebert was diagnosed with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lincoln (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Scorsese joined Ebert on his show on the best films of the 1990s
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Ebert interviewed President Bill Clinton about movies at The White House
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1999· 3 entries
Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and, starting in 2000, with Richard Roeper
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Ebert founded The Overlooked Film Festival (later Ebertfest), in his hometown, Champaign, Illinois
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Founded the Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois
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1997· 1 entry
Ebert appeared in Spencer Rice and Kenny Hotz's documentary Pitch, and the Chicago-set television series Early Edition, where he consoles a young boy who is depressed after he sees Bosco the Bunny die in a movie
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1996· 1 entry
Ebert began publishing essays on great films of the past; the first hundred were published as The Great Movies
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1995· 1 entry
Siskel and Ebert guest-starred on an episode of the animated sitcom The Critic
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1994· 2 entries
In which he described his visit to Sega's Joypolis arcade in Tokyo
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And had praised the exploration, depth and graphics, writing "This is the most beguiling computer game I have encountered, a seamless blend of information, adventure, humor, and imagination — the gruesome side-by-side wi
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1991· 1 entry
Siskel and Ebert appeared in the Sesame Street segment "Sneak Peek Previews" (a parody of Sneak Previews)
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1986· 1 entry
Again moved the show to new ownership, creating Siskel & Ebert & the Movies through Buena Vista Television, part of the Walt Disney Company
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1982· 3 entries
1983 and 1985, Siskel and Ebert appeared as themselves on Saturday Night Live
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Moved from PBS to launch a similar syndicated commercial television show, At the Movies with Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert
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Chose, alphabetically, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Bonnie and Clyde, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, Notorious, Persona, Taxi Driver and The Third Man
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1980· 1 entry
Of course, Raging Bull was a better film than The Black Stallion
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1978· 1 entry
I would put Days of Heaven above An Unmarried Woman
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1976· 1 entry
How could I rank Small Change above Taxi Driver
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1975· 6 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize (1975).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1975).
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Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
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Hosted a program called Cinema Interruptus, where would analyze a film with an audience, and anyone could say "Stop
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Ebert received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism "For his film criticism during 1974
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Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped popularize nationally televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews, followed by several variously named At the Movies programs on commercial
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1974· 1 entry
Chinatown was probably better, in a different way, than Scenes from a Marriage
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1970· 1 entry
Ebert wrote the first published concert review of singer-songwriter John Prine, then working as a mailman and performing at Chicago folk clubs
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1969· 1 entry
Ebert attended the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder
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1968· 1 entry
Ebert worked for the University of Chicago as an adjunct lecturer, teaching a night class on film at the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies
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1961· 1 entry
I was an adolescent for whom "the sweet life" represented everything I dreamed of: sin, exotic European glamour, the weary romance of the cynical newspaperman
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1960· 1 entry
Attended the University of Illinois and received his undergraduate degree in journalism in 1964
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1958· 1 entry
Won the Illinois High School Association state speech championship in "radio speaking," an event that simulates radio newscasts
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1942· 2 entries
Born 1942-06-18.
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In Urbana, Illinois, the only child of Annabel (née Stumm), a bookkeeper, He was raised Catholic, attending St
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