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Birth Name: Roger Joseph Ebert

Born: 18 June 1942 Died: 4 April 2013

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 8"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert


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Celebrity Insults (179 items)
list by Agent Kermit D. Fonz
Published 12 years, 6 months ago 21 comments
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Gone, but not forgotten (1847 items)
list by Agent Kermit D. Fonz
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago 10 comments
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Notable Celebs for which 2013 was the last (86 items)
list by lili
Published 11 years, 2 months ago 12 comments
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American Pop Icons (1184 items)
list by moviebuff
Published 8 years, 11 months ago 8 comments
29 votes
The Moral Imperative of Art (21 items)
list by shotswerefired
Published 7 years, 2 months ago 1 comment

Roger Ebert Videos

Roger Ebert on modern moviegoers

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Roger Ebert yelling at Sundance

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Siskel and Ebert on The Tonight Show, 1987

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Description: Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 โ€“ April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, journalist, and screenwriter. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collections of reviews. Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped popularize nationally-televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews, followed by several variously- ... (more)
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2. The Daily Show (1996)
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3. Sesame Street (1969)
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2. Up! (1983)
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Gone, but not forgotten (1847 person items)
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My Favourite Celebrities (433 person items)
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In Praise of Pauline Kael (15 person items)

" โ€œKael had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades. She had no theory, no rules, no guidelines, no objective standards. You couldnโ€™t apply her โ€˜approachโ€™ to a film. With her it was all personal.โ€ โ€œThe most powerful, loved, and hated film critic of her time.โ€"


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In Praise of Yasujiro Ozu (10 person items)

" "To love movies without loving Ozu is an impossibility." "Ozu developed a visual style that was unlike anybody else's. Although in some of the silent films at Facets you can see that he obviously studied Hollywood directors, he had certain visual trademarks that were all his own." "


shotswerefired added this to a list 2 years, 2 months ago
In Praise of Gary Oldman (12 person items)

" "Oldman is one of the great actors, able to play high, low, crass, noble." "


shotswerefired added this to a list 4 years, 8 months ago
The Favourite Films of Critics and Filmmakers (32 movies items)

"Sight & Sound Poll, 2002: 1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog) 2. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) 3. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) 4. The Decalogue (1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski) 5. La Dolce Vita (1959, Federico Fellini) 6. The General (1927, Buster Keaton) 7. Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese) 8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) 9. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu) 10. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) Sight & Sound Poll, 2012: 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey"


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The Moral Imperative of Art (21 art items)

"โ€œArt is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.โ€"


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