Posted on 04/04/2013 12:45:23 PM PDT by EveningStar
Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation’s most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago. He had been in poor health over the past decade, battling cancers of the thyroid and salivary gland.
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I've seen five of the films in your list. Really liked the French Connection and Goodfellas. Saw the Seven Samarai but liked Clint Eastwood's/Sergio Leone's version better.
“The English Patient” is interesting in that the novel it’s based on was considered unfilmable, and they pulled it off. I can say it’s a damned sight better than “Titanic” when it comes to the ‘doomed romance’ genre, lol!
Again, never saw it, friends said it sucked...good enough for me. Never saw Titanic in the theater, have only seen bits and pieces on cable. I like "A Night to Remember" much better.
“Citizen Kane” was a pioneering film, especially in terms of cinematography. A lot of the camera tricks we see in films originated in, or were perfected in, that film.
IMO, and I speak only for me, the film still sucks. I had to watch it in a mass media class in High School...it sucked. I watched it again years later to make sure my opinion wasn't just because of youthful thinking. My first opinion still stands.
Sorry, kinda hijacked the thread.
RIP Roger
He’ll never have to watch another Adam Sandler movie.
I think the reason why some don't like Kane is that they treat it like a holy relic and attempt to analyze it while watching it. Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz crafted an engrossing, well-written story and it holds up well just in terms of that alone. The technical innovations are unquestioned and worth examining on subsequent viewings. The first time around, just watch it like any other film for the sheer enjoyment it brings. Joseph Cotten, in particular, is superb in Citizen Kane as Jedediah Leland.
Don't be so sure, some say the definition of Hell is being exposed to the thing you hate the most for all of eternity.
Great...New England for all eternity.
As long as you are correcting the headline writer's English usage, I hope you won't object if I correct yours.
I see this error all the time on FreeRepublic, so you are not alone. I'm sure that you really mean "Prayers FOR Ebert's family". You wouldn't be praying TO them. They are not Gods, or Saints. We pray TO God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit -- the Holy Trinity, 3 in 1. We pray TO the Saints to ask for their intervention and represntation of our causes with the Trinity. We don't pray TO mortals.
No offense intended. Now, carry on.
I remember his partner in crime, Gene Siskel. Siskel could find racism in a film where no racism was.
Ebert was a little mire level headed, but not much. It was during their hayday on PBS that I quit going to movies.
Specific shows I remember was when Siskel branded THE MOUNTAIN MEN as racist, but WINDWALKER was not.
PENITENTIARY as extremely racist and P2 worse.
PORKEY’S as sleazy and they wondered why any girl would go out there and show everything on screen. One mentioned that there were girls lined up to take the place of anyone who did not want to bare it all.
RIP
Politics aside, he was good. He was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize.
I loved the Siskel & Ebert shows. I didn’t always agree with their opinions on movies, but they got me to look at movies in a new way.
***Saw the Seven Samarai but liked Clint Eastwood’s/Sergio Leone’s version better.****
I think you mean Yojimbo. All are good movies. It was also remade as LAST MAN STANDING.
***“Citizen Kane” was a pioneering film***
I like THE THIRD MAN better.
> Siskel was a good man, he took his Jewish faith very seriously.
Siskel also stopped appearing on Arsenio Hall’s show to protest Arsenio’s Farrakhan interview.
Seven Samurai was remade as The Magnificent Seven.
And Battle Beyond the Stars, and Three Amigos, and Galaxy Quest. A very versatile story.
True, but where he is now is still an improvement (a bit hotter, though)...
Puh-Leaze.
Had to google it...yep, my mistake.
Maybe I meant the Magnificent Seven with Yul Brynner. It's all so long ago...they run together.
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