#roger ebert

[lizardsfromspace]

The Mummy quote is great but i'll always love Roger Ebert's description of how being sophisticated means realizing Gamera is better than "serious" studio action movies

[mysharona1987]

Roger Ebert on why Mulholland Drive is not just a great movie, but how human dreams actually work.

You don’t have to be on drugs to understand Mulholland Drive.

You just had to have had a fever dream after a common cold or something.

[arconinternet]

Cosmology of Kyoto (Windows & Classic Mac, SOFTEDGE, 1995)

Roger Ebert's favorite game, simulating life, afterlife and reincarnation in Japan's Heian period. You can download it here or here, or download it pre-configured to run on modern versions of Windows here.

[davidhudson]

Roger Ebert, June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013.

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

1970

[bitter69uk]

“The world is full of them, the super-octane girls who are old at twenty – if they get to be twenty!”

Beyond bizarre! Beyond outrageous! Beyond any film you’ve ever seen before! Today represents a landmark in cult cinema history: on this day fifty-five years ago (17 June 1970) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls – sexploitation maestro Russ Meyer’s twisted and berserk interpretation of sixties youth culture - had its world premiere at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. As the Los Angeles Herald Examiner declared, “Russ Meyer promised to make the wildest, craziest, funniest, the farthest out musical-horror-sex comedy ever released. He has succeeded.” All these decades later, many of us are still dropping snippets of its dialogue into everyday conversation (“You’re a groovy boy. I’d like to strap you on some time.” “This is my happening, and it freaks me out!” “You will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!”). I last screened Beyond at the Lobotomy Room film club (to a packed house) in January 2017. Maybe it’s due for a revisit! Pictured: John LaZar – unforgettable as Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell.

[clonehighdoublehelix]

Which historical figure r u happy that got a clone high oc from another. Artist?

SISKEL AND EBERT!! (sorry but it's my blog and that means you all have to hear about my non-Clone High interests too. The comics are free but everything has a price)

I love the idea that Eberts clone is negative while Siskels is always positive. It really fits their combative relationship!

Siskel and Ebert were critics in competing Chigago newspapers who got paired together for a local film review program and steadily gained popularity until they became the most recognisable and influential film critics in America.

Their trademark Two Thumbs Up/Down could make or break a movie. Unless you're David Lynch:

Because I love my followers, I've compiled my favourite no-context clips to give you a taste of their legendary rivalry, beginning with a clip relevant to this blog:

I highly recommend Matt Singer's book about the duo, especially for the details of the incredibly mean pranks Siskel pulled on Ebert.

You won't be surprised to hear I have plans for S&E clones in Double Helix. I swear I have an original take! Until then, the balcony is closed.

[citizenscreen]

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

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

[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

[borgialucrezia]

roger ebert's generational crash out over caligula

[oldshowbiz]

Roger Ebert wrote a movie for the Sex Pistols. He wrote all about the failed project here.

[lizardsfromspace]

"There's a learning process we go through. In childhood without sophistication or much taste, they like Shadow the Hedgehog because he's cool as hell and has a gun. Then they grow older and develop "taste", and prefer video games about beefy bald guys with guns, since obviously a hedgehog with a gun is silly. Then, if they continue to grow older and wiser, they complete the circle and realize one day that holy shit, he's an edgy hedgehog with a gun who's always dropping the hardest quotes imaginable. Shadow the Hedgehog is the coolest fucking character in history"

- Roger Ebert

[eppysboys]

The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Revolution

The Gay Metropolis, 1940-1996 by Charles Kaiser

[toiich]

The last words from the last blog of Roger Ebert

[davidhudson]

Roger Ebert, June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013.

[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”