Avengers: Infinity War
A good movie that buckles beneath the weight of its responsibilities to the franchise.
Cameron Crowe
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Aloha (2015)
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
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Elizabethtown (2005)
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Vanilla Sky (2001)
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Directed by
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Almost Famous (2000)
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Written and Directed by
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Jerry Maguire (1996)
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Singles (1992)
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Say Anything (1989)
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Written and Directed by
Roger Ebert
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist’s work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
John Mahoney: 1940-2018
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Writer/director Amy Heckerling takes a look back at her career.
Cameron Crowe Comes to Showtime with “Roadies”
A TV review of Cameron Crowe's "Roadies."
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Ben Kenigsberg predicts that "Toni Erdmann" will win the Palme d'Or.
Roger's Favorites: John and Joan Cusack
Roger's Favorites: actors John and Joan Cusack.
Bringing My Mother Back From the Dead: Jacob Bernstein on Nora Ephron and "Everything is Copy"
An interview with Jacob Bernstein about his mother Nora Ephron, the subject of his HBO doc "Everything is Copy."
Making the Cut: Imogen Poots on "Knight of Cups"
An interview with actress Imogen Poots about her performance in the new Terrence Malick movie Knight of Cups.
Who's Who In Reviews: Peter Sobczynski
The movie questionnaire and 2015 reviews of RogerEbert.com film critic Peter Sobczynski.
Entertaining the -Isms
The importance of engaging in all aspects of film analysis, even the -isms, and even in summer blockbusters.
White Man Saves the World Again: The Problems with "Aloha"
An FFC comments on the controversy surrounding Cameron Crowe's Aloha.
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Jeffrey Westhoff on "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"; Alex Ross Perry on "Aloha"; "Pitch Perfect" screenwriter Kay Cannon; White Elephant Blogathon returns; What "Aquarius" nails about the '60s.
The Act of Not Having An Act: Cameron Crowe's Ambivalent Humanism
A piece on the history of Cameron Crowe in light of this week's Aloha.
2015 Summer Movie Preview: A Four-Month, Blockbuster Festival
A preview of dozens of films being released this Summer.
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2015: Preserve the Moose by Andrew Root
An excerpt from the March 2015 issue of "Bright Wall/Dark Room" on "This is Spinal Tap".
Life is in the Middle: Theodore Melfi on “St. Vincent”
An interview with writer/director Theodore Melfi on "St. Vincent."
Book Excerpt: "Tom Cruise: Anatomy of An Actor" by Amy Nicholson
An excerpt from "Tom Cruise: Anatomy of An Actor."
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Advice for Journalists and writers of color; the virtues and pitfalls of tossing brickbats online; 'Eyes Wide Shut' at 15; 'Pickpocket' on Blu-ray.
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Apologizing for the Manic Pixie Dream Girl; what to do about clickbait web sites that pretend to peddle "satire"; why it's important to give credit; "24: Live Another Day" ends its run.
Meet the Writers: Peter Sobczynski
Writer Peter Sobczynski responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Pearl Jam at 20: American Masters? Yes.
"Pearl Jam Twenty" is available On Demand (check your satellite or cable listings) and premieres on the PBS series "American Masters" at 9 p. m. (ET/PT), Oct. 21. It will be released on Blu-ray and DVD Oct. 25. For additional viewing, the grunge documentary "Hype!" is available on Netflix (DVD only).
by Jeff Shannon
Here in Seattle, we think of Cameron Crowe as an honorary native. When he married Nancy Wilson in 1986, he married into local rock royalty: Nancy and her sister, Ann, are the pioneering queens of rock in Heart, the phenomenally successful and still-touring Seattle-based band that is presently nominated for induction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. It wasn't long before Crowe became a kind of de facto ambassador of Seattle-based rock.
At the time, the rest of the world still knew Crowe as the rock-journalist wunderkind who started writing for Rolling Stone at age 15 (an experience Crowe would later dramatize in "Almost Famous") and the author-turned-screenwriter of Amy Heckerling's 1982 high-school classic "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." You could reasonably speculate that the seeds of the Crowe/Wilson romance were planted in "Fast Times": Nancy Wilson makes a cameo appearance in the film as "Beautiful Girl in Car," catching Judge Reinhold's character in yet another moment of humiliating embarrassment. One can imagine Crowe thinking "I'm gonna marry that girl." When he actually did, countless male Heart fans turned green with envy.
(By sheer happenstance, I made a friendly connection with Crowe three years before we actually met. Shortly after the newlywed Crowe moved to the Eastside Seattle suburb of Woodinville, he and Nancy placed a mobile home on their rural property to accommodate visits from Wilson's mother. At the time, my father was running a mortgage business specializing in mobile/land sales in Snohomish County, and he closed their deal. When my dad informed Crowe that I was a Seattle film critic and an admirer of his, Crowe sent me a signed copy of Fast Times at Ridgemont High to my dad's office. It was a completely unsolicited gesture of kindness, and a pleasant precursor to later encounters.)
#81 September 21, 2011
Marie writes: Roger recently did an email Q&A with the National Post's Mark Medley, which you can read here: "Roger Ebert's voice has never been louder". And in a nice touch, they didn't use a traditional head-shot photo with the article. Instead they went old school and actually hired an illustrator. Yup. They drew the Grand Poobah instead! And here it is...pretty good, eh?
Illustration By Kagan Mcleod for the National Post(click to enlarge)
Top secret leakage from my 2010 Muriels ballot!
It's a wrap for the 2010 Muriel Awards, but although the winners have been announced, there's still plenty of great stuff to read about the many winners and runners-up. ('Cause, as we all know, there's so much more to life than "winning.") I was pleased to be asked to write the mini-essay about "The Social Network" because, no, I'm not done with it. (Coming soon: a piece about the Winkelvii at the Henley Gregatta section -- which came in 11th among Muriel voters for the year's Best Cinematic Moment.)
You might recall that last summer I compared the editorial, directorial and storytelling challenges of a modest character-based comedy ("The Kids Are All Right") to a large-scale science-fiction spectacular based on the concept of shifting between various levels of reality/unreality -- whether in actual time and space or in consciousness and imagination. (The latter came in at No. 13 in the Muriels balloting; the former in a tie for No. 22.) My point was that, as far as narrative filmmaking is concerned, there isn't much difference. To illustrate a similar comparison this time, I've used a one-minute segment out of "The Social Network" (Multiple levels of storytelling in The Social Network). You might like one picture better than the other for any number of reasons, but I find their similarities more illuminating than their differences:
