getthebigpicture.net - 12/17/2008
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Kudos to the Directors Guild of America, which on January 31st will award critic Roger Ebert as an an honorary life member of the Guild. You probably don't need me to remind you that Ebert is the preeminent film writer in America today, and has been for some time.
Roger Ebert: "No More Surgery"
getthebigpicture.net 3/25/2009 — The dean of film criticism, Roger Ebert , informed Chicago TV station WLS
this week that he has no plans to pursue additional surgeries in hopes of regaining his voice.
Ebert has had several surgeries over the past few years, some to remove cancer and others to
repair the damage done by ...
How Roger Ebert Gets the Best Blog Comments
tynansanger.com 11/10/2008 — Ebert has put considerable craft and care into constructing his blog, and Ebert ’s blog can be taken as a model for inspiring intelligent, reasonable blog comments in the future. Here some ways the Ebert model can benefit us all.
Critic goes Post-al on ill Roger Ebert
nydailynews.com 9/11/2008 — Thursday, September 11th 2008, 4:00 AM The audience at the Toronto Film Festival press screening of "Slumdog Millionaire" didn't know they were also going to get live entertainment Saturday. There'd been lots of Oscar buzz about Danny ...
AWARDS WATCH | Directors Guild Announces 2008 Nominees
indiewire.com 1/8/2009 — by Peter Knegt (January 8, 2009)
The Directors Guild of America have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in directing for the screen during 2008. The nominees are Danny Boyle for " Slumdog Millionaire ," David Fincher for " The ...
Art Directors Guild
awardsdaily.com 2/16/2009 — The Art Directors Guild has it figured out. If brilliant action movies like The Bourne Ultimatum and The Dark Knight aren’t “serious” enough for filmmakers who play dress-up for a living (or used to, 20 years ago, before they ...
Roger Ebert’s Top 20 Movies of 2008
slashfilm.com 12/7/2008 — Roger Ebert has released his Best of the Year column, listing off his top 20 films of 2008. Unfortunately Ebert took the cowards way out and didn’t list the movies in any specific order. You can check out the bare-bones list below, or head on ...
The Whole Truth From Vincent Gallo
web.archive.org 7/18/2009 — Vincent Gallo and I have a history. In May 2003, I called his "The Brown Bunny" the worst film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival. Then he put a hex on me to give me colon cancer. Now we're about to meet for the first time.
Roger Ebert: The Death of the Film Critic is the Death of Society
nerve.com 12/1/2008 —
We've seen a lot of despairing think-pieces and blog posts this year written by, for and about film critics this year — specifically, how we're all dead on the ground. Mass firings, reductions in word count for space reasons, mass syndications of ...