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Siskel & Ebert try to run a model railroad. Fail.
Later in this program, we review early video games, such as they were. This is one of four parts on You Tube. These Gift Guides lasted three or four years.
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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Later in this program, we review early video games, such as they were. This is one of four parts on You Tube. These Gift Guides lasted three or four years.
If this is a waste of your time, what will their damn fool new App be? Twitter theoretical research: Early field trial: Now here is a demonstration of the planned length of the Twitter Vine:
"Whistle Stop" (1946), with George Raft "Ghost on the Loose" (1943) with the East Side Boys and Bela Ligosi
Go here for the New Yorker's article about Apollo Robbins. Here's my Great Movies review of Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket." Here's my review of the 1993 James Coburn movie "Harry in Your Pocket.
• As told to Roger Ebert Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin walk into a hotel room, and that sounds like the set-up for a joke. It's more like a long-delayed punchline. These guys have been stars for more…
"In an apparently unpublished and previously unknown poem, Carl Sandburg addressed the topic of guns. Titled "A Revolver," the short piece was discovered last week among Sandburg's archives, housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of…
Anne Thompson writes on Indiewire: "While any Joel and Ethan Coen movie is worth waiting for, many of us are champing at the bit to see "Inside Llewyn Davis," their portrait of the 60s Greenwich Village folk scene that spawned…
My good Sun-Times pal from the 1970s at the Chicago Sun-Times, Cynthia Dagnal, wrote me today: "A friend in London sent me this, obituary from the London indpendent and I was stunned to see that Jeni Le Gon attended the…
