View image The light and the landscape. View image Signs of man. I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five. Hard to believe. Grandfather was a lawman. Father too. Me and him was sheriff at the same time,…
View image Mixed metaphors? Incoherence? Dylan? Crix say the darndest things. From a review of Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There": "Obvious as [Bob Dylan's] talent may be, he often mixes metaphors and combines images in a way that skirts the…
By Roger Ebert
Q: To me, "Beowulf" was one of the most thrilling movies ever. I can't believe you thought people should have been laughing at it.
View image This is about a hallucinogenic experience I had years ago... and how it relates to the way I look at movies. I can't say this psychedelic "revelation" altered my perception of cinema in any way; it just gave…
View image To some, it's just another genre picture. Composition, color, movement, texture, shapes, faces, expressions, bodies -- that's where you begin to experience what this montage sequence is "about." If film is first and foremost a way of seeing…
View image Werner Herzog with Roger Ebert at Ebertfest 2007. "Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." -- Jean Shepherd, 1975 In…
From Ali Arikan, Istanbul, Turkey:
Herzog's Minnesota Declaration: Defining 'ecstatic truth'
The light is the movie. In celebration of the 30th anniversary three-disc DVD release of three -- count 'em, three -- versions of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," I offer yet another quotation from Richard T.…
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