Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 18. Juni 1942 |
Geburtsort | Urbana, Illinois, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Roger Joseph Ebert (/ˈiːbərt/; 18. Juni 1942 - 4. April 2013) war ein amerikanischer Filmkritiker, Filmhistoriker, Journalist, Drehbuchautor und Schriftsteller. Er war von 1967 bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 2013 Filmkritiker der Chicago Sun-Times. Im Jahr 1975 wurde Ebert als erster Filmkritiker mit dem Pulitzer-Preis für Filmkritik ausgezeichnet. Neil Steinberg von der Chicago Sun-Times sagte, Ebert sei "ohne Frage der prominenteste und einflussreichste Filmkritiker der Nation" gewesen, und Kenneth Turan von der Los Angeles Times nannte ihn "den bekanntesten Filmkritiker Amerikas". |
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
