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“Life (Itself) with Roger Ebert”: A wonderful blog post about Roger’s legacy from a writer credited as “Richard” at the Vaughn Public Libraries’ For Your Leisure blog.
“His voice was informative – yet both supportive and biting. I fell in love with his writing when I received as a gift the CD ROM (anyone remember those?) that held the complete Ebert body of work. His work on Sneak Previews really didn’t do his writing justice. The review that made me a believer? I was – and still am – a huge Romero / zombie fan. Ebert’s thoughts on Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead.’ This is a reviewer who appreciates the craft, skill and intelligence needed for excellent filmmaking but Ebert was also a populist who understood that film was fun. He was never an elitist who focused only on film’s loftier artistic goals. He praised Bergman (as he should) but he also had time for movies like ‘The Descent.’”
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“The Sadness of Watching a Woody Allen Movie”: Esquire‘s Stephen Marche charts the decline of America’s most prolific living filmmaker.
“I wonder if anyone younger than me can really recognize what Allen once meant. Obviously, his classics remain classics. His …read more