Rest In Peace Roger Ebert

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Now this- is a great man

This man was such an influence on me!

I never really saw his TV show. I'm not really familiar with his TV stuff. When I was very young, my mom would take me to the library and I remember I saw The Great Movies by Roger Ebert (if I remember the title right).... and I remember reading about this man named Hitchcock who sounded very interesting and important......

I was so horrified! I watched Psycho because I'd read it in the Roger Ebert book. It scared the heck out of me! I was hella young lol.... didn't know anything about Alfred Hitchcock or those older movies Ebert was talking about....anyways, Ebert really got me into these older movies....

Jose Ortega Y Gassett talked about the massification of culture- I think what Roger Ebert was about was fighting this massification of culture..... Roger Ebert talked to me about socialism before he died.... I was in high school! it was so inspiring for me to hear from Mr. Roger Ebert and I think he was such a kind man to have responded to me when I wrote to him

So I make this thread to honor Roger Ebert, this great and noble man and to honor his memory May Allah bless Roger Ebert and may he rest in peace

 

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Roger Ebert talked to me about socialism before he died.... I was in high school! it was so inspiring for me to hear from Mr. Roger Ebert and I think he was such a kind man to have responded to me when I wrote to him

That's pretty awesome that he came to your school!
The other guy I remember with him was Gene Siskel....
Hitchcock was scary for the grandparents now we have way scarier stuff....
I am kinda looking forward to 'Murder in the Orient Express' cause that movie caught my imagination as a child.....Poirot!Also, reading books about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.......

 

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Interesting:

Ebert indicated that his favorite film was Citizen Kane, joking, "That's the official answer", although he preferred to emphasize it as "the most important" film. He insinuated that his real favorite film was La Dolce Vita.[72] His favorite actor was Robert Mitchum, and his favorite actress was Ingrid Bergman.[73] He also considered Buster Keaton, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese to be his favorite directors.[74] He expressed his general distaste for "top ten" lists, and all movie lists in general,[72] but contributed a top ten list to the 2012 Sight and Sound Critics' poll. Listed alphabetically, those films were 2001: A Space Odyssey; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Apocalypse Now; Citizen Kane; La Dolce Vita; The General; Raging Bull; Tokyo Story; The Tree of Life; and Vertigo.[75] His favorite Bond film was Goldfinger (1964), and he later added it to his "Great Movies" list.[76]

 

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That's pretty awesome that he came to your school!
Yes the other guy was Gene Siskel....
Hitchcock was scary for the grandparents now we have way scarier stuff....
I am kinda looking forward to 'Murder in the Orient Express' cause that movie caught my imagination as a child.....Poirot!Also, reading books about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.......

well it wasn't in person

but when I was in high school I used to be such a Roger Ebert fan.... what i mean is.... I remember she wanted to watch a movie.... and I remember I would sneak off to another room to read the Roger Ebert review so i could see what he said.....

I think his big thing.... I think he was against aesthetic relativism...

what i mean is i think he was against the idea that whether a movie is good or not is purely subjective.... he made me think seriously about how to watch a movie.... interpretation. He actually believed that whether a movie is, say, a great movie or a bad movie is actually objective... which is an almost unthinkable stance today but I think he was able to think in such a way because he was of an older generation and was not indoctrinated with the idea that everything is relative... he not only practiced film criticism but he defended film criticism itself and why we should have film critics and why we should have people like him to help us think critically about the films we watch.... he was a brilliant thinker.....

so when i was in high school.... i think he actually was fighting cancer at the time... but be had a blog and he was such a humble and nice man.... he would respond to a lot of the people who responded to his blog and he actually responded to me when I wrote to him..... he talked to me about socialism..... I remember it to this day lol and I think about what he said to me.... it was such a big deal to me..... I was very excited that Roger Ebert had wrote to me lol

 

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That's pretty awesome that he came to your school!
The other guy I remember with him was Gene Siskel....
Hitchcock was scary for the grandparents now we have way scarier stuff....
I am kinda looking forward to 'Murder in the Orient Express' cause that movie caught my imagination as a child.....Poirot!Also, reading books about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.......

I must be a grandparent then! I still think Psycho is a shocking movie lol... Norman Bates seems so horrifying lol... i remember the shower scene in my head... with that terrifying music!

 

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I dont even watch the horror movies from today.... give me a killer blob from outer space in the 50's any day....

 

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plus the people in the 50's movies and 60's movies sound so funny when they talk... they sound so earnest and sincere.... they are not ironic and cynical like say in movies from the 90's

 

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That's pretty awesome that he came to your school!
The other guy I remember with him was Gene Siskel....
Hitchcock was scary for the grandparents now we have way scarier stuff....
I am kinda looking forward to 'Murder in the Orient Express' cause that movie caught my imagination as a child.....Poirot!Also, reading books about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.......

"well you see, Watson....

the black mark on his shirt led me to conclude he clearly had been working in a coal mine.... clearly he had left the coal mine at three in order to kidnap the Carlton family chihuahua... with the chihuahua hostage he could demand a ransom from the Carlton family fortune!"

Lol those books are so fun to read.... I used to have The Complete Sherlock Holmes