Life Itself Reviews

(Mu) Movies are not the theme; it is the enthusiasm of living thanks to words and immages. Ebert even congratulates James to film a 'suction' in his body in horrible close up. Y prefer the Siskel & Ebert analisis by friends and Siskel's widow.

Ever since I heard about this movie, of course, I became really eager to watch it. Indeed, for more than 20 years, I have been a huge movie fan and, at some point, I guess a little bit less than 10 years ago, I stumbled accross those amazing reviews written by Roger Ebert. Eventually, I think I must have read 2000, maybe 3000 of his reviews and I always check them after I had watched a movie released before 2013. Basically, it was the first time in my life that I read such deep and knowledgeable analysis about films and not only was it interesting but it was also damned entertaining. Eventually, Ebert became the only film critic that I would be able to relate to and the only one I would actually really care for. Of course, being a fan and all, I pretty much already knew everything told in this documentary but it was still fascinating to go through the major steps in his life. I mean, to see this guy at a the end of the road, crippled and unable to speak, and yet still full of life, still creatively productive, it was just incredibly inspiring and increased even more the respect I already had for this man. To conclude, I'm not sure if this movie is really interesting if you are not into Roger Ebert's work but I really loved the damned thing.

When you hear the word critic, who's the first critic you think of? I'm probably guessing Roger Ebert, who was and still is the most famous critic of all time! This documentary 'Life Itself', goes into Roger Ebert's life as a critic, his working with Gene Siskel and his 11 year battle with cancer!

This documentary is wonderful! It creates emotion with the scenes of Ebert in hospital and the interviews from his wife Chaz Ebert, film director Martin Scorsese and film critic Richard Corliss! It delivers almost everything you need to know about Ebert! It's got scenes of intense emotion and also scenes of comedy of Ebert and Siskel bickering! A powerful two thumbs up documentary!