Film Critic Roger Ebert Dead at 70

The 'Chicago Sun-Times' confirms

"...The legendary Roger Ebert has died, according to his longtime paper The..."

April 4, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

How Roger Ebert Showed Me the Light

Stateside screens Ebert darling 'Dark City' tonight and tomorrow

"...keep me up until dawn. The footage was of Roger Ebert at a podium leading a discussion on the..."

July 31, 2014 Screens Post by Fernie Martinez

Page Two: Roger Ebert Added a Star to His The Whole Shootin' Match Rating

Last Night at the Alamo restoration revives Eagle Pennell's early promise for posterity

"...Whole Shootin' Match, prove transcendent. I think it was Roger Ebert who cited Laurel and Hardy: Though more blue-collar,..."

March 11, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Ebert exits, Lyons and Mankiewicz enter

Roger Ebert leaves the syndicated series At The Movies after 23 years.

"...It's official. Roger Ebert, the longtime film critic and co-host of the..."

July 22, 2008 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Ebert & Roeper is History

"...made it official: He's leaving At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper after eight years...."

July 21, 2008 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

Life Itself

The life of Roger Ebert is celebrated in this documentary by the director of Hoop Dreams.

"...Softcore-porn filmmaking king Russ Meyer, who really admired Roger Ebert, used to tell me stories about wining and..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Sundance Review: 'Life Itself'

Tissues not suggested but required

"...A lot of that is due to the great Roger Ebert...."

Jan. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

Tracing horror's evolution from the camp-serious bastions of Roger Corman to the post-countercultural killing fields of The Last House on the Left and on

"...type of filmmaking segued from the camp-serious bastions of Roger Corman and Vincent Price's gothy Poe pictures to the..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Two Thumbs Up

"...but it was his presence alongside Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert on TV for 24 years that made us..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Gift Guide: Film Criticism

New reads from two titans in film scholarship

"...The Great Movies IIIby Roger Ebert University of Chicago Press, 432 pp., $30 The..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Movie Bug

Touching down at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...A few days ago, I noticed this tweet from Roger Ebert: "A guy like me, I can see retiring..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

New in Print

"...THE GREAT MOVIESBy Roger Ebert..."

May 31, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye: All Thumbs

SXSW outtakes; in line with Roger Ebert; and bad karma

"...Best brush with fame: Standing next to Roger Ebert at the State Theatre. We were both there..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Austin gets a sneak peek at the return of Glee

"...the long-running At the Movies was canceled last week, Roger Ebert and his wife, Chaz Ebert, are planning a..."

April 2, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

If you're looking for reviews of The Nutty Professor, John Pierson's Split Screen isn't your show. If you like insightful, sometimes peculiar excursions into the independent film world, Split Screen will please you more than a stolen afternoon at a weekday matinee. Also, Olympic fever spreads -- but not without a few complaints.

"...He's no Gene Siskel or Roger Ebert -- or even that new guy Richard Roeper,..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Ain't it cool? Harry Knowles pitches a television show based on his cinephile Webzine; also, the NAACP boycott is scrapped, plus other small-screen newsmakers.

"...Cool News (http://www.aintitcoolnews.com) and as a sometime sidekick to Roger Ebert on Roger Ebert & the Movies -- is..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

Recalling the tone and spirit of Eighties horror films, this is an homage to exsanguinations past.

"...Surprisingly, the latter camp included film criticism's permanent last-man-standing Roger Ebert, who remains notorious among Eighties-horror fans for having..."

April 9, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...it's flattering, but you can't be too happy about Roger Ebert ripping you off like this on all your..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column

Maybe It's Just Because of Hoffman's Performance?

"...it's flattering, but you can't be too happy about Roger Ebert ripping you off like this on all your..."

Nov. 1, 2005 Postmarks

The Brown Bunny

Vincent Gallo's notorious film turns out to be an anti-action road trip that has the feeling of a fever dream.

"...Gallo’s no lunatic: The director’s vitriolic broadside blasted at Roger Ebert after the critic maligned his film at the..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Asking for It

'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'

"...AC: Roger Ebert's review essentially said that you're funny but that..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...group of like-minded film fans and critics (including pal Roger Ebert, with whom Knowles has shared several guest-host spots..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

"...guest host spot in the balcony on Siskel & Ebert. Since Gene Siskel's death a few months back, the..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Advice to Young Journalists

What cinema tells us about what we expect from the news

"...No one was more revered in that position than Roger Ebert, arguably the most important American film critic of..."

Feb. 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Week's Waste of Time

A browser game with a messsage ... ugh

"...developer, Peanut Gallery, leaves us with this quote from Roger Ebert: "I may be wrong ...". This is Ebert's..."

July 22, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

No Man's Land

Well-intentioned cross-border drama finds humanity on all sides

"...wonder where this film will find its audience. If Roger Ebert was right and cinema is a machine that..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Wind Rises (English dubbed)

The swan song of master animator Hayao Miyazaki appeals to the head and heart.

"...My Neighbor Totoro. I can still recall in detail Roger Ebert’s hyper-enthusiastic “two thumbs up” for a filmmaker who,..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye: Zeroing in on a ZIP Code

Filmmaking brothers turn a camera on their hometown in 45365

"...Southwest Film Festival as well as the Chaz and Roger Ebert Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2010 Independent..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Happy Accidents

That a car crash of a video shoot turned viral is only half the story. What a long strange trip it's been for Winnebago Man.

"...the funniest documentary he'd seen all year), endorsed by Roger Ebert (in the spirit of the film's foul-mouthedness, he..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bucking Categorization

Character actor Sam Rockwell slips into a new guise in the goofy comedy Gentlemen Broncos

"...Austin Chronicle: In his review of Choke, Roger Ebert called you a "latter-day version of Christopher Walken"..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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