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Every Siskel & Ebert Show Available Online, Starting Tomorrow
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Forget about entering the web review by review, old-school thumbs are going to take the net by storm tomorrow. Over 20 years of movie review clips with thumbs up and down from Roger Ebert, the late Gene Siskel and replacement Richard Roeper will be available online -- for free -- at the Ebert & Roeper website, www.atthemoviestv.com. Just how many movies could there be? Two decades is a looong time, and has resulted in approximately 5,000 reviews, which will even include recent shows with Roeper and guest reviewers such as Jay Leno. Even better -- there is a big search engine coming along with the horde, so viewers can search by movie title, director or actor.In a statement, Ebert said: "For years, this was a dream. Now I am exhilarated that it is a reality, thanks to the enormous effort of digitizing something like 1,000 programs." It sounds pretty wild to me -- both for nostalgia sake and as a handy film reference. It'll also be great for the Ebert fans who are still missing his presence on the show since his last appearance a year ago. The reviewer has said that he's waiting for another operation that will hopefully restore his speech, and maybe then we'll see him churning out more videos. But in the interim, we've got a few decades of old clips to revisit.
Ebertfest Dispatch #1: Adventures in Urbana
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Independent », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Festival Reports », Other Festivals », Cinematical Indie »
I'm here in beautiful Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (go Fighting Illini!) for Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, which will likely officially be called Ebertfest next year, seeing as how that's what everyone calls it anyhow. I'll start by getting right to the question I know a lot of you are wondering: How does Roger Ebert look? The answer is, for all he's been through in the past year or so, pretty damn good. Appearance-wise, he looks about like the pic here, which he released just before the fest (smart move, that, because everyone was prepared a bit for how he'd look after his long ordeal. He's walking in and out of the screenings on his own feet.
They have a comfy recliner set up for him in the back so he can rest comfortably while watching the films. His lovely wife Chaz is here with him, and she's taken on a lot of his duties doing intros for the films and moderating Q&As and is otherwise always by his side. He was at all three screenings today -- it takes stamina to sit through three to four movies a day when you're totally healthy; the fact that Ebert is here supporting this fest, showing up for the screenings, and talking to well-wishing fans, speaks to his strength of character and his undying passion for film.
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