#roger ebert

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(The Golden Dawn - Gwyllm Llwydd)

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"The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don’t wait for her."

- Roger Ebert

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“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.” ― Ray Bradbury

#muse #The Golden Dawn #Gwyllm Llwydd #quotes #Roger Ebert #Ray Bradbury

[eppysboys]

The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Revolution

The Gay Metropolis, 1940-1996 by Charles Kaiser

#The Beatles #Jack Nichols #Quotes #A Hard Day's Night #Roger Ebert #Richard Lester #Films #lgbtq #remember this #The Gay Metropolis

[citizenscreen]

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

- Roger Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)

#roger ebert #movies

[vital-information]

Meditative TV

Tales from the Loop // Mushishi // Joe Pera Talks with You

“Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life's experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer "to" anyone or anything, but prayer "about" everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.”

—Roger Ebert, “A Prayer Beneath the Tree of Life”

#film criticism #roger ebert #mushishi #joe pera talks with you #tales from the loop

[tvneon]

Roger Ebert defends his love of Home Alone 3

#roger ebert #gene siskel #siskel and ebert #90s #1990s #I saw this on Twitter and Siskel's disgust made me laugh

[doppleganger-rental]

1987 Siskel & Ebert

Roger on a film that hadn’t hit its classic, holiday status just yet.

#a christmas story #siskel and ebert #roger ebert #1987

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

#roger ebert #film #movies #cinema #film critic #far out magazine

[anghraine]

sambargestuff replied to this post:

Interesting. Having watched ROTJ in the theatre when it was released, I can tell you that the grief of the rancor's keeper was played for laughs. And it worked. People in the theatre around me laughed at the keeper. Of course, people think Boba Fett is the hero of the movie, so people are fucking stupid.

I mean ... I'm not sure the reactions of the theatre tell us much about what the intended purpose of the scene is or how to interpret it.

Roger Ebert's 1983 review opens with:

Here is just one small moment in "Return of Jedi," a moment you could miss if you looked away from the screen, but a moment that helps explain the special magic of the Star Wars movies. Luke Skywalker is engaged in a ferocious battle in the dungeons beneath the throne room of the loathsome Jabba the Hutt. His adversary is a slimy, gruesome, reptilian monster made of warts and teeth. Things are looking bad when suddenly the monster is crushed beneath a falling door. And then (here is the small moment) there's a shot of the monster's keeper, a muscle-bound jailer, who rushes forward in tears. He is brokenhearted at the destruction of his pet. Everybody loves somebody. It is that extra level of detail that makes the Star Wars pictures much more than just space operas.

Lucas said, "I like the idea that everyone loves someone. And even the worst, most horrible monster you can imagine was loved by his keeper. And the rancor probably loved his keeper."

#sambargestuff #respuestas #star wars #sw fanwank #roger ebert #george lucas #the rancor keeper

[davidhudson]

Gene Siskel, January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999.

#gene siskel #roger ebert #cinema #film #movies #magazine covers #magazines #film criticism

[oldshowbiz]

Ebert at the Movies

#roger ebert #news

[lizardsfromspace]

Thinking about Roger Ebert's review of Christmas with the Kranks - the weird fascistic Christmas movie from 2004 that presents a neighborhood pressuring a family to put up expensive Christmas decorations as a *good*, heartwarming thing - and specifically his observation on how secular it is

Like at the time (and now) people said "if the neighborhood is that aghast at someone celebrating Christmas 'wrong' for one year, how would they react to a non-Christian family moving in" and Ebert pointed out that the filmmakers clearly thought of that too, and "solved" it by...pretending Christmas isn't religious as hard as possible.

It pretends so hard that when a priest shows up it's to attend their holiday party. On CHRISTMAS EVE. As Ebert said "You don't have to be raised Catholic to know that priests do not have time off on Christmas Eve. Why isn't he preparing for midnight mass? Apparently because no one in the Kranks' neighborhood is going to attend -- they're too busy falling off ladders while stringing decorations on rooftops" & anyway I think about that A Lot when people insist Christmas is 'secular now'

"Christmas, some of my older readers may recall, was once a religious holiday."

#film #movies #religion #christmas #roger ebert

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.”

- Roger Ebert, “Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” 2009

(Follies of God)

#follies of God #quotes #Roger Ebert

[theburialofstrawberries]

from roger ebert’s movie review of bound x

#no one got it the way you got it old man #roger ebert #bound 1996

[citizenscreen]

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

- Roger Ebert, birthday remembrance #botd

#roger ebert #movies

[drilpencils]

#roger ebert #the public drilbrary

[lalalipuyofgulg]

Lmfao

#movie review #dune #roger ebert #siskel and ebert #gene siskel #worms #would you love me if i was a worm #frank herbert