Roger Ebert became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. He is the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame and was named honorary life member of the Directors' Guild of America. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Screenwriters' Guild, and honorary degrees from the American Film Institute and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1989 he has hosted Ebertfest, a film festival at the Virginia Theater in Champaign-Urbana. From 1975 until 2006 he, Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper co-hosted a weekly movie review program on national TV. He was Lecturer on Film for the University of Chicago extension program from 1970 until 2006, and recorded shot-by-shot commentaries for the DVDs of "Citizen Kane," "Casablanca," "Floating Weeds" and "Dark City," and has written over 20 books.
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This film, which played at Ebertfest, is by Rudi Dolezal from Vienna, one of Europe's leading directors of music videos. He met Freddie Mercury in that way and gained his agreement to make the film. Freddy's mother also agreed to…
Edited by Marie Haws, Club SecretaryFrom Roger Ebert: Club members receive the complete weekly Newsletter. These are abridged and made public on the site three weeks later. To receive the new editions when they're published, annual dues are $5. Join…
This free Newsletter is a sample of what members receive weekly.For Roger's invitation to the Club, go HERE Marie writes: some of you may recall seeing a custom-built "steampunk" microphone stand made for the group Three Days Grace, by sculptor…
"House" is new in the Criterion Collection, so I figured it might be good. I looked at the trailer. This is the trailer. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: Having not seen the film and working only from…
Everywhere I go, as much as I can, I listen to National Public Radio. It's an oasis of clear-headed intelligence. Carefully, patiently, it presents programming designed to make me feel just a little better equipped to reenter the world of…
By Roger Ebert / June 26, 1974 Richard Harris, dressed from head to toe in black, sprawled on the couch in his hotel suite and sang, not at all badly, a few warmup lines of "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning."…
Atom Egoyan must be a wonderful teacher. (Photo by Roger Ebert) Egoyan on inspiration Egoyan on erotic scenes   Egoyan on Amanda Seyfried Egoyan on Liam Neeson Egoyan on Ingmar Bergman and the essence of cinema Egoyan on preconceptions about…
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Herzog at Toronto 2010. (Photo by Ebert) In April at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Werner Herzog spoke of the 3D film he was making, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." On the night of…
I posted the Beethoven video not long ago and it inspired enthusiastic comments, many of them coming down to: Who is this kid? Under another video online I found a comment, possibly by his mother, saying Jonathan started trying to…
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