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4 days ago · Widely revered as one of the greatest movie critics of all time, Roger Ebert managed to transcend the medium of film criticism with his passionate prose. Ebert seemed to know everything there was to know about cinema history and the way films themselves were made, and his many writings and articles for the Chicago Sun-Times have gone down in ...
2 days ago · Early life and education Roger Joseph Ebert was born on June 18, 1942, in Urbana, Illinois, the only child of Annabel (née Stumm), a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert, an electrician. [11] He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Mary's elementary school and serving as an altar boy in Urbana. [11] His paternal grandparents were German immigrants [12] and his maternal ancestry was Irish ...
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- Roger Joseph Ebert, June 18, 1942, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
4 days ago · The most expensive Scandinavian film at the time, the film traces the history of witchcraft from its pagan roots to the Spanish Inquisition to the psychoanalysts of the 20th century. Filled with lurid imagery of torture, satanic orgies—Christiansen himself plays the Devil—and possessed nuns, this singularly bizarre film remains as beguiling ...
2 days ago · On the surface, the story is simple—a Swedish woman is dying, and her sisters come to see her—but the crimson red decor contrasted against the women's white outfits has mesmerized audiences and critics alike. Roger Ebert named "Cries & Whispers" the best film of 1973, but "The Sting" nabbed the Best Picture Oscar during awards season. #8.
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2 days ago · Roger Ebert had many positive things to say, and particularly liked the extent to which Kung Fu Panda 2 elaborated on the first movie while also standing on its own. Deborah Ross of The Spectator , on the other hand, was less impressed, critical of the lack of personality in either the film or its many characters.
4 days ago · The film has, as Monica Castillo writes in her review for Roger Ebert, brought Hite's important work back into the light. Castillo called the movie especially "poignant at a time when people are ...
20 hours ago · With the samurai as the life force of the film, a far more prominent message is revealed: what does it mean to be honourable? Much like the gentlemen of Dickens’ “Great Expectations”, samurai are meant to exemplify virtuous qualities. But, as Roger Ebert stated, ‘like characters in a Greek tragedy,’ they fall prey to their own fatal flaw.
