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Ebertfest 2019: A Glorious Celebration of Cinema – Jennifer Merin reports

April 21, 2019April 22, 2019 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments carla renata, Chaz Ebert, ebertfest, Gina Gershon, jennifer tilley, jenny lumet, maja Komorowska, michael barker, Morgan Neville, nate kohn, nell minow, pamela powell, rita corburn whack, Roger Ebert, roger eberts film festival, scott wilson, thrumbs up

Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, aka Ebertfest, is unique in its pure and glorious celebration of cinema. The annual four-day program, which just completed its 21st edition, consists of but a dozen films. Ebertfest is quite compact, as film festivals go. But, this joyful movie event has enormous heart, and it emanates influence and inspires empathy far beyond Champaign, Illinois, the college community in which it makes its home and has found its soulmate.

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SPOTLIGHT April 2019: Chaz Ebert, Filmanthropist and Activist

March 31, 2019April 4, 2019 Nell Minow 0 Comments brian tellerico, Chaz Ebert, ebertfest, gene siskel, matt fagerholm, matt zoller seitz, Roger Ebert, thumbs up, women writers week

The term most often used to describe Chaz Ebert is probably “force of nature.” Most of us come to the world of movies through love of cinematic storytelling, but in her case, it was through love of the most influential movie critic of all time, Roger Ebert. Through her own special brand of film activism, Chaz Ebert consistently champions the work of women in film.

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Steve James Talks Empathy in Documentary Making – Jennifer Merin interviews

July 21, 2014 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments documentaries, Life Itself, Roger Ebert, steve james, the interrupters

In Life Itself, filmmaker Steve James chronicles Roger Ebert’s life, paying tribute to the film critic who defined cinema as

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LIFE ITSELF – Review by Susan Granger

July 5, 2014June 8, 2020 Susan Granger 0 Comments documentaries, Life Itself, Roger Ebert, steve james

Film critic Roget Ebert knew he wouldn’t live to see this documentary based on his 2011 memoir of the same name. In a particularly poignant scene, he tells director Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) that he knows that his thyroid cancer has metastasized to his spine, saying, “It is likely I will have passed when the film is ready.” Indeed, Ebert died in April, 2013, at age 70. Read more>>

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LIFE ITSELF — Review by Kristy Puchko

July 4, 2014July 21, 2014 Kristy Puchko (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments Life Itself, Roger Ebert

It’s unnerving. Sometimes writing a film review can feel like a confession. While some like to believe that critics as

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, June 30-July 6: LIFE ITSELF

June 30, 2014July 7, 2014 Sandra Kraisirideja (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments Chaz Ebert, Life Itself, martin scorsese, Roger Ebert, steve james, Steven Zaillian

Opening July 4, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is Life Itself, filmmaker Steve James’ moving tribute to America’s favorite movie critic, Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winner who became a household name when he and critical colleague Gene Siskel, co-starring on PBS’ Sneak Previews, coined the phrase “Two thumbs up!” Based on Ebert’s eponymous memoir, the documentary recounts Ebert’s life with reverence and deep respect. It’s thumbs up from AWFJ! Read on…