Traffik
There isn’t an honest moment in all 96 minutes of Traffik.
Gregory Nava
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Frida (2002)
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
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Selena (1997)
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My Family (1995)
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A Time of Destiny (1988)
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El Norte (1983)
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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.
Dear Roger: I Can't Believe Our Film Festival is Twenty Years Old!
A Look back at the origins of Ebertfest twenty years ago and a look forward to Ebertfest 2018.
Ebertfest 2018 Guests: Part I
Part I of our round-up featuring filmmaker guests scheduled to attend Ebertfest 2018. We will include the film critics in a separate round-up.
Oscar Flashback: At the Oscars Without You: A Letter to Roger
Chaz writes to Roger about attending the Oscars without him.
Better Than the Oscars?
An article about the 2017 Governors Awards ceremony.
Ebertfest 2018 Passes On Sale Now
An article announcing the 20th Anniversary of Ebertfest April 18-22, 2018 and tickets on sale November 1st.
Roger loves Chaz
Wednesday, July 18, is the 20th anniversary of our marriage. How can I begin to tell you 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. If my cancer had come, and it would have, and Chaz had not been there with me, I can imagine a descent into lonely decrepitude. I was very sick. I might have vegetated in hopelessness. This woman never lost her love, and when it was necessary she forced me to want to live. She was always there believing I could do it, and her love was like a wind forcing me back from the grave.
Ebertfest 2017 Passes Now On Sale
An article about Ebertfest, Roger Ebert's Film Festival 2017 passes, which are now on sale.
Memories of Roger: My Photo Journal from the Last Two Years
A gallery of photos, videos and links illustrating Chaz's journey relating to Roger's legacy in the two years since his death.
"Life Itself" Opens in Mexico
An essay on the opening of "Life Itself" in Mexico City.
Gratitude
A note of thanks from Chaz Ebert to the wonderful people behind "Life Itself."
Ebert Movie Airs Again on CNN Fri Jan 9th
"Life Itself" airs on CNN Friday, January 9th.
Roger Ebert Movie on CNN January 4th
"Life Itself" airs on CNN Sunday, January 4th.
"Life Itself" Screens Tonight at the Chicago International Film Festival
"Life Itself" screens at 8pm Wednesday, October 22nd, at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Love Itself: My Year Without Roger
Chaz reflects on the last year.
Championing Independent Film: Gregory Nava on Roger Ebert
Editor's Note: Filmmaker Gregory Nava wrote the following essay for inclusion in the program book for the 2014 Spirit Awards, where Roger was honored in March.
At the Oscars Without You: A Letter to Roger
Chaz writes to Roger about attending the Oscars without him.
A Letter to Roger on "Life Itself"
Michael Mirasol shares what he wants to say to Roger after seeing "Life Itself".
On "Life Itself"
Chaz reflects on her experience seeing the documentary about Roger at the Sundance Film Festival.
"This is not only your film": Steve James talks about his Roger Ebert documentary "Life Itself"
Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Steve James, director of "Life Itself," a documentary adapting Roger Ebert's memoir.
Roger Ebert Scholarship Program for Young Critics Goes to Sundance
The first recipients of the Sundance Institute's Roger Ebert Scholarship for Film Criticism make their debut at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hollywood and Indie Worlds Come Together for Roger Ebert Memorial Tribute
Hollywood and indie film directors, actor John Cusack, actor Chris Tucker, comedian and philanthropist Dick Gregory, former Playboy chair Christie Hefner and the president of Sony Pictures Classics, and the lead critics from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the Chicago Film Critics Association, will join other celebrities, friends and colleagues to pay tribute to iconic film critic Roger Ebert’s life and prolific career at “Roger Ebert: A Celebration of Life,” this Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St.
A little black dress makes the world go round
With the passing of Andy Williams, I keep imagining his golden tenor singing Henry Mancini's "Moon River." The song talks about crossing life in style. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is all about fashionable cafe society and love; in an adult fairy tale, you can have both even if you are two drifters.
The director Gregory Nava once commented, "Whenever any question of style or taste in dress comes up, I simply ask myself, 'What would Fred Astaire have done?'" Audrey Hepburn is Astaire's female equivalent: sophistication mixed with fizzy fun.
Anna Thomas: Honey, there's a love in my soup
I met Anna Thomas at the 1975 Chicago Film Festival. She was not yet 30, and already the world's most famous vegetarian cookbook author because of The Vegetarian Epicure,published by Knopf when she was 24. It sold well over a million copies.
The plague of movie trivia
When people cheerfully tell me, "I have a trivia question" for you, I have a cheerful answer for them, but I rarely express it: "I'm a professional. Ask an amateur." Why in the name of Buster would I want to clutter my memory with useless facts? During long, hard years of being asked trivia questions, I have learned one thing for sure. The person asking me is in the possession of one fact, and is pretty confident I don't know it. Therefore, my admission of defeat will demonstrate their superiority.
I know something about the movies, and here is how I really should reply: "Before I even attempt to answer your question, let me ask you five questions to see if you are qualified to even take up the time of a busy, busy man such as myself. (1) What is the name of the film that codified the language of the cinema? (2) Who was the third great silent clown? (3) Is color intrinsically better than black-and-white? (4) What movie set key scenes on board a train going from Chicago to Urbana, Illinois? (5) Name at least five directors of the French New Wave.
The best train set a boy could ever want
It's a good thing Ebertfest is no longer called the Overlooked Film Festival. One of my choices this year, "Frozen River," was in danger of being overlooked when I first invited it, but then it realized the dream of every indie film, found an audience and won two Oscar nominations. Yet even after the Oscar nods, it has grossed only about $2.5 million and has been unseen in theaters by most of the nation.
Those numbers underline the crisis in independent, foreign or documentary films--art films. More than ever, the monolithic U.S. distribution system freezes out films lacking big stars, big ad budgets, ready-made teenage audiences, or exploitable hooks. When an unconventional film like "Slumdog Millionaire" breaks out, it's the exception that proves the rule. While it was splendid, it was not as original or really as moving as the American indie "Chop Shop," made a year earlier. The difference is, the hero of "Chop Shop" wasn't trying to win a million rupees--just to survive.
