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Definitive mainstream film critic in american letters. >> he made it possible for a bigger audience, wider audience to appreciate cinema as an art form. because he really loved it. really, really loved films. and he did not get caught up in certain ideologies about what cinema should be. >> after winning the prize, if he had minded to go to the new york times, he could have done that, boston globe, l.a. times, no problem. >> ben bradley, editor for washington post of watergate fame, went after r...

>> i always worked on newspapers. there was a persistent need, not only to write, but to publish. in grade school, i wrote and published the washington street news. which i solemnly delivered to neighbors in illinois, as if it existed independently of me. but the news gazette, a lineo type operator sent it in lead, but robert ebert, i was electrified. >> and i went home, you could take a stamp pad and put your byline on everything. my parents had to take it away from me. everything was by roger ...

>> its called and the movies not at the movies. thats why were doing it this time. >> its thriller week on siskel & eabert and weve got three bi ones. >> thats this week on siskel & ebert and the movies. and the ass hole. >> they were still in their hearts little boys fighting it out on the playground. and both of them expecting to win. >> i came in expecting to repair

That the kubrick film is. you know it and you should be ashamed of yourself. >> no, im not. >> they almost didnt care what anyone else thought about anything, as long as they could try to persuade the other. im not just talking about movie reviews. im talking about the tie youre wearing, what you think of that person, a book, a restaurant. when there wasnt disagreement, the coin of the realm was the quarter. >> its hard to think of anything that wasnt decided by a coin toss. >> were we going to ...

Costner star in no way out and we have a third thriller if youre interested. >> what do you mean two thrillers? >> how about something like this, its thriller week on siskel & ebert and weve got three big ones. okay? ready? >> i guess youre going to rewrite it. >> you cant ad-lib gene. cant we do it next week? >> no, every week counts. >> you read it then. ill al-lib it. >> its thriller week on siskel & ebert. >> why dont you read both parts? >> please get rid of the gum. >> its thriller week on...

Come on, ban together, lets overthrow the country. >> protestants, people who sort of want a religion. >> were real. we get down and get dirty. >> i was here when you were only a gleam in your mothers eye. >> i go back 6,000 years. somebody that has some god damn passion coursing through their veins. >> clase closed. >> anything. >> right. >> steve martins new comedy roxanne. >> this week on siskel & ebert at the movies. >> you said it a little too fast. the holiday season is here, which means i...

Roger sees it in a much more positive way. its a renaissance. its a renaissance in film appreciation and film criticism. the roving reporters that he uses like on his blog, for example, and giving a critical birth to lots of other points of view. >> the passionate fan culture, or movie geek culture that exists on the internet, when people get really, really worked up, is something that the "siskel & ebert" show helped to seed. it follows from rogers understanding of criticism, which is a mode of...

Cockpit have noticed you are on our flight, frankly, we both agree with you more than your partner, and we would be so honored if you would join us in the cockpit for a bit of the flight. gene knows that roger was really excited. he gets into the aisle and roger was a big guy then, he just kind of bounds down the aisle and gets ready to knock on the door of the cabin and you know, the flight attendants and people are horrified, and gene says, dear mr. ebert, we in the cockpit -- gotcha. >> and h...

>> i thought this movie was awful, dreadful, terrible, idiotic, unfunny, labored, forced, hateful. >> roger? what happened to your sense of humor? >> i dont think roger was by nature a fighter. but if you have a brother who likes to fight all the time, so then you learn how to fight. >> and gene had his number. gene knew the buttons to push and everything else. >> theyre in a first-class cabin. genes in one of the front rows. rogers behind him. and gene hears the same old stories over and over a...

Vulgarizing film criticism. >> will anyone read this story? it has too many words and not enough pictures. does anyone read this magazine? every article in it wants to be a meal, not a mcnugget. is anyone reading film criticism? it lacks punch, the clips, the thumbs. i simply dont want people to think that what they have to do on tv is what i am supposed to do in print. i dont want junk food to be the only cuisine at the banquet. et cetera. i really did sound angry there, but it seemed to me the...