He also emphasized, every once in a while, his disdain for the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” system … Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. 2018: Bohemian Rhapsody “A film you dislike deserves all the same passion you bestow on the films you love otherwise just get up and leave the theater after the trailers have concluded because you have nothing deeper to offer medium. Woodstock ROGER EBERT: "Fargo," "The Thin Red Line," "Pulp Fiction." Artistic evaluation is always subjective. T he long Fourth of July weekend is another kind of holiday for film lovers: The documentary about beloved film critic Roger Ebert, Life Itself, hits … It’s marred by sentimentality and self-serving historical distortion. To support Open Culture’s continued operation, please consider making a donation. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The movie exploits every weakness and obsession of every character--particularly Palin's almost insane love for his tropical fish. The place is Mississippi, the time is 1964, and the two agents represent two different traditions within the agency. "Mystic Pizza" told the bittersweet story of three teen-age girls who learn a little above love and a lot about life in their last summer before college. Spike Lee Recieves American Cinematheque Award, America Has to Come to a Reckoning: Director Sam Pollard on MLK/FBI, The TV Homages of WandaVision are an Amusing, Unfulfilling Distraction. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Roger Ebert: Why I Hate 3D Movies. 12 Angry Men October 15, 1999 "Fight Club" is the most frankly and cheerfully fascist big-star movie since "Death Wish," a celebration of violence in which the heroes write themselves a license to drink, smoke, screw and beat one another up. ...and then, if you wanted, you could add ten more fine films: "Bull Durham" was the best baseball comedy in years, with droll comic timing in a romantic triangle including Susan Sarandon, Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins. Ebert’s ... of the script is to produce the best possible film. Planet of the Apes little children Million Dollar Baby 12. If people find these films boring then that’s unfortunate for them really. Sergeant York 1981: Friday the 13th Part 2 Pan’s Labyrinth In this 37 year old’s opinion there are the greatest films of all time: 1. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Bladerunner Being There, All were Ebert 4-star movies. 2002: Punch-Drunk Love Sign Up ", Also Gene Hackman, grounded behind enemy lines in "Bat*21"; Kevin Anderson and Richard Gere, disenfranchised farmers in "Miles from Home"; Ben Kingsley as a lonely, passionate expatriate in "Pascali's Island"; "Spike of Bensonhurst," with its neighborhood boxer as an anti-Rocky figure; Theresa Russell as a hallucinating housewife imagining Gary Oldham as her son, or lover, in "Track 29"; the classic automobiles in Francis Coppola's "Tucker: The Man and His Dream"; Michael J. 6. Raiders of the Lost Ark The conversation got heated, then one person chimed in…”…Hey,…the reason this or that got the award,…it was VOTED in !”….Which is the truth. Mike Nichols' "Working Girl" had that Melanie Griffith performance as a Staten Island secretary who thinks she's as smart as her boss--and impersonates her to prove it. True Crime Then one day change comes into his life, in the person of a dog trainer (Geena Davis) who believes she is just exactly what he needs. 1980: Friday the 13th Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "Clean and Sober," directed by Glenn Gordon Caron, starred Michael Keaton in the portrait of a man who loses his job and his self-respect through abuse of cocaine and alcohol, and then begins the laborious climb back to happiness through a rehab program and AA. "Madame Sousatzka" starred Shirley MacLaine in one of her best performances, as an aging piano teacher in London, trying to guide the latest of a string of talented students through the first uncertain steps toward a concert career. american gigolo (only half joking) To be fair I haven’t seen too many older films before 1956, since most old films tend to bore me to tears, but here’s a list of old films which I do tend to love: By Roger Ebert On 5/9/10 at 8:00 PM EDT. Vertigo I realise that isn’t a defensible reason for choosing one film over the other, but it is my reason, and making this list is essentially impossible, anyway.” That didn’t stop his cinephilia from prevailing — not that much ever could. The first part is seen through his eyes, the second part through hers. And how did he feel about them? What's most surprising is the time the film finds for quiet moments--especially a subtle, tender relationship between Hackman and Frances McDormand, who plays the wife of a racist. 2. Roger Ebert gave the film four-out-of-four stars and deemed it an "important movie". But when the noted film critic does pan a movie, the result is a humorous, scathing critique far more entertaining than the movie itself.. 25 Delightful Roger Ebert Quotes About Movies. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) // 1 star. “Clock Work Orange” ” The Yearling” ” magnificent 7″ ( original with Yul Brynner, etc.) 1996: Sling Blade "The Last Temptation of Christ" was the year's most controversial film--Martin Scorsese's attempt to deal honestly with the duality of Christ's nature. The two women turn the cafe into a roaring success, and the movie was intriguing enough that it's going to be recycled into a TV series. You think Citizen Kane is boring? And yet he has included an über corny and decidedly clumsy movie like Tree of Life in his top ten. Easy Rider Open Culture (openculture.com) and our trusted partners use technology such as cookies on our website to personalise ads, support social media features, and analyze our traffic. 1999: The Green Mile Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Shawshank Redemption Seriously makes me doubt everything that man has ever said about the art of film. Annie Hall This is not a documentary, but a battle cry. Roger Ebert Talks Movingly About Losing and Re-Finding His Voice (TED 2011), The Two Roger Eberts: Emphatic Critic on TV; Incisive Reviewer in Print, Roger Ebert Lists the 10 Essential Characteristics of Noir Films. 2003: Kill Bill They had all kinds of ideas as to why this movie was voted best, over another. After that most of the lists come from their best of the year TV show. "A World Apart" contained a brilliant Barbara Hershey performance as a South African woman whose political struggle against apartheid is seen through the unforgiving eyes of her daughter. I found “Armageddon” starring Bruce Willis outrageously boring, but again, it’s just one man’s opinion. We've seen cartoon characters sitting on people's shoulders before, but in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" they were also pulling in their lapels, socking them in the jaw, and (in the case of the pneumatic Jessica Rabbit) suggesting a little hanky-panky. Michael, I hope you’ll watch more movies. Just like imagine, I don’t know, maybe something in the region of literally loads and load and loads of films stretching on and on and on or stacked upon each other so they go high up to the sky and you can barely see the top and I reckon that’s how many he’s seen and a good way to imagine it. Do you show all the same passion to whatever you watch? Shawshank Redemption 9. Invictus The 15-17 to Paris 2. 3. The best movie reviews, in your inbox. 3. if you like our Facebook fanpage, you'll receive more articles like the one you just read! ”. All Reviews. As the cop, he's so wild-eyed and off the handle that we begin to suspect he's a bigger danger than the serial killer he's tracking down. 8. The Ten Commandments. There’s no such thing as a Ten Best Films of All Time! Do you have something deep to offer other than some angry mumbo-jumbo? Now it is on video, where it has a second chance. She loves him, too, but neither one of them discovers that until the end of the film. The film was directed by Mira Nair, who conducted workshops among the street children of Bombay while developing the script, and discovered her star, Shafiq Syed, living on the streets. I don’t really see any enjoyment at all in finding your no.1 film. 10. I was teaching a film course in the University of Chicago’s Fine Arts Program, and taught classes of the top ten films in 1972, 1982 and 1992.” His dream came true, and when he wrote this reflection on sending in his list every decade, he did so a year nearly to the day before his death in 2013, making his entry in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll a kind of last top-ten testament: Deciding that he must vote for “one new film” he hadn’t included on his 2002 list, Ebert narrowed it down to two candidates: The Tree of Life and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. Welcome to find the best movies that Roger Ebert gave 4 Stars with the generator. The story stars Bob Hoskins and a feisty rabbit named Roger in a backstage musical with gangster movie overtones, involving shady dealings in the halfway world between the Toon ghetto and the neighborhoods where the flesh-and-blood people live. The movie begins with Beach Boys music on the sound track, as newly-arrived draftees swim in the surf. What defines a top film anyway? Also "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing," Patricia Rozema's portrait of a shy assistant in an art gallery; Tom Hanks as the kid who gets his wish to be "Big"; William Hurt having an onscreen breakdown in Gregory Nava's "A Time of Destiny"; Dennis Quaid as a man who reports his own murder in "D.O.A. Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning movies.He began his career as a comedy writer on Sid Caesar's comedy variety program, Your Show of Shows, working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart and Neil Simon. However, what’s rare is being able to explain and/or defend why one likes one movie and hates another. Rear Window Who knows? !” Flags of Our Fathers Invictus !” Ebert Prime. Roger Ebert became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. Like many of the films on my list, they were directed by the artist who wrote them. Here are a few more terrible movies that Roger Ebert loved. This is a moody, introspective, oddly seductive film about angels. But again that’s just one man’s opinion. 2. Blade Runner 12 of Roger Ebert's best movie reviews Nobody has ever been as good at loving (or hating) a movie. The question is, how can he do that without blowing the family's cover? 12 Angry Men And it has lots of fun with scenes embarrassing and humiliating the uptight Cleese character. Although this film offended the religious sensibilities of many people, I found it to be a thoughtful and devout work, a rare film that made Jesus seem real, and not just a portrait on a religious postcard. Because she herself was pushed onstage too early in life, Madame tries to hang onto her pupils as long as possible, until sometimes they have to make it clear it's time for her to let go. And here is my list of the year's "second ten"--films that are not in the top ten only through a whim of the selection process. In ways almost impossible to describe, this is the most delightful film of the year. 17. The Ten Commandments Updated on August 4th, 2020, by Richard Keller: Most of the time, Roger Ebert's reviews were spot-on with what other critics and movie-goers believed. "; Tom Hulce as a most convincing retarded man in the heartwarming "Dominick and Eugene"; Chevy Chase at his funniest in years in "Funny Farm"; Spike Lee's outspoken "School Daze"; the harrowing and enlightening portrait of teenage suicide in "Permanent Record;" James Spader's overlooked, chilling performance as a modern-day ripper in "Jack's Back"; the intelligence of "Lady in White," a modern ghost story; Kathleen Turner as a woman trapped between two nightmare realities in "Julia and Julia"; Maggie Smith as a lonely spinster and a closet drinker in "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne"; and Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly in the labyrinthine thriller "Masquerade. 11. Read Movie and TV reviews from Roger Ebert on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics reviews are aggregated to tally a Certified Fresh, Fresh or Rotten Tomatometer score. The lists through 1978 come from the Chicago Tribune for Siskel, and the Chicago Sun-Times for Ebert. 3. Letters from Iwo Jima Roger Ebert seems to have resented star ratings, which he had to dish out atop each and every one of his hundreds upon hundreds of regular newspaper movie reviews. Now, then. The movie was directed by Wim Wenders, and it bears a certain relationship to his great "Kings of the Road" (1976), another film in which two lonely wanderers shared their bafflement about the world of real people and real emotions. 9. It is interesting that many movies debut and are not highly regarded…but over time, critics study them and come to the conclusion that there is something great there. … Strange how 2 people that have such a blatant disregard for what are widely considered 2 of the best films of all time!! But really everything else I’ve seen by him has been absolutely fantastic. Letter’s from Iwo Jima some might really be a slow as 100 best. Keaton has never been better--or more desperate and wired--and Kathy Baker's performance, as a woman he meets in treatment, was equally strong. The Wages of Fear Jersey Boys American Sniper, And here’s my list of the best films released since 1990: 3. Letters from Iwo Jima in no order. "The Thin Blue Line" made headlines at year's end, when it resulted in a retrial for Randall Dale Adams, a convicted Texas cop-killer. These cookies do not store any personal information. Willem Dafoe plays his partner, a bright, gung-ho young agent who believes in "shows of force" and calling in the National Guard. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. "The Boost" starred James Woods as a salesman who goes through the ceiling in the Los Angeles real estate market, and then self-destructs with cocaine. 12. The year's funniest comedy was a collision between British eccentricity and American craziness. 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit May 29, 2020 Updated: May 29, 2020 3:01 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. Five of your films were made in 2005 or after. Writer and film critic Roger Joseph Ebert was born on June 18, 1942, in Urbana, Illinois. 2017: The Dark Tower This is one of those films where the story sounds depressing, but the experience is heartwarming and exhilarating. Hereafter Not an opinion, a fact (imho), The Swimmer !” A heartwarming portrait in a truly absorbing film by John Schlesinger. I’m obviously here looking for a list as well but I like Ebert’s comment about top 10s. Members of the Academy ( the only ones who can vote for a movie, by the way) get calls, and now I guess emails, and other prods to vote for this one or that. brideshead revisited (1981) I am sure than Eisenstein's " The Battleship Potemkin " is a great film, but it's not going on my list simply so I can impress people. 1. 8. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. 2007: There Will Be Blood Gran Torino “The whole movie is a failure of taste, tone, and … !….A lone pithy word … “boring” …. But to just merely call a film “boring”……is the biggest injustice you can give a film. But "Shy People" never found a successful releasing strategy in the United States, and has never even played in most cities. … Wow!! Just strange how people teach you which film is great by keeping mentioning that other people think which film is great. Clint Eastwood’s performances and movies aren’t known for depth or subtlety of emotion or even thought. If Jesus was fully man and fully God, then did he not feel all of the ordinary temptations and weaknesses of the flesh? The Silence of the Lambs. J. Edgar Roger Ebert, the movie critic, hates my favorite movie. How about Fargo,High Sierra and The African Queen. I understand why people might think Citizen Kane is boring as the pace is often slow but it may be worth watching it acknowledging that it was made almost 80 years ago and that a lot of films released and enjoyed since were inspired by it and imitated it. Pulp Fiction 11. (2) Propagandistic votes, selecting a film no one else may vote for, with the hope of drawing attention to it. It starred Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis as two American lovers, pretending to be brother and sister, who get involved with Michael Palin in a jewel-robbery caper. I also admired "A Cry in the Dark," for Meryl Streep's coldly controller performance; "The Accused," with Jodie Foster as a battered rape victim; Clint Eastwood's "Bird," with Forest Whittaker as the doomed Charlie Parker; "Rain Man," with Dustin Hoffman oddly likable as an unchanging victim of autism; Marcel Ophul's "Hotel Terminus," a documentary on Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon; Stephen Frear's "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid," a portrait of modern London falling apart at the seams; "The Naked Gun," as subtle as a fourth-grader with a water pistol; "Patty Hearst," with Natasha Richardson's uncanny portrait of the kidnaped newspaper heiress; "Vice Versa," with Judge Reinhold inspired as an adult in a kid's body, or vice versa; and John Water's "Hairspray," with last performance by the legendary Divine. The director, Bill Couturie, has taken passages from dozens of letters written home by U. S. servicemen in Vietnam, and has combined them with newsreel footage and home movies shot in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. The movie was directed by Philip Kaufman ("The Right Stuff"), based on the novel by Milan Kundera, and it is among other things the most erotic film since "Last Tango in Paris.". Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. I'm Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times. I picked them from that list, because – and I cannot emphasize this enough – Ebert was NEVER WRONG (except for “Prometheus” but he wrote that review after his illness, and all his reviews were slanted positive in his last year, God Bless him. In my opinion these are the top 10 movies of all time: 1. 1986: Friday the 13th Part 6 Ebert's Best Film Lists1967 - present If I must make a list of the Ten Greatest Films of All Time, my first vow is to make the list for myself, not for anybody else. I thought everyone knew that. He comes from a family of homebodies, and some of the movie's funniest scenes involve his sister and two brothers, who live in a menagerie of eccentricities in the old family home. In the pursuit of these goals, he has the cooperation of a woman named Sabina, (cq) who also believes that she enjoys sex without commitment. If you like the film noir with its wet pavements, lonely street lights, shiny cars and low necklines, here is a movie to treasure. There is no such thing as a list of “the best movies of all time.” And Roger Ebert pointed this out continually throughout his writing career. But director Alan Parker is not trying for flat realism here; he wants to heighten the emotions and underline the passions of the time, so recent in the past, when the nation passed the turning point on civil rights. 9. (Photo by Magnolia Pictures) Celebrating Roger Ebert’s Great Movies. American Sniper, Here are my favorite movies of the 80s: These are the movies that I personally love to watch the most. Psycho The most powerful scene in the movie shows Lahti meeting with her own alienated father (Steven Hill) and asking him to help his grandson. 1. The Mule 8. “It has sentimental value. In many cases, the footage was too shocking to be seen on TV at the time, but even more disturbing are the many cases where Couturie has been able to find actual film of the soldiers whose letters are being read--some of them doomed to die not long after. All rights reserved. Like another great film, "Pixote," from Brazil, the story finds a surprisingly resiliency in its hero, who works as a tea boy, insinuates himself into a world of brothels and drug dealers and marginal poverty, and somehow even seems to grow there. My favorites are Jesus Of Nazareth and Endless Summer. [ … ] I could have chosen either film — I chose The Tree of Life because it’s more affirmative and hopeful. And he could hardly ever abide that run-of-the-mill critic’s standby, the top-ten list. 1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. !…Just strange how these 2 people even found there way to comment on this thread linked to one of the most famous film critics of all time”, “widely considered 2 of the best films of all time!! This remarkable film was shot entirely on location on the streets of Bombay, and tells the story of Chaipau, a street orphan who moves in a society of other homeless children, and copes as best he can with a world that is completely indifferent to him. The story is set in postwar Hollywood, where cartoon characters ("Toons") and human beings exist side by side. the world at war (documentary). Goodfellas "Talk Radio" starred Eric Bogosian, who wrote the original play, as a lacerating talk radio host who seems to almost invite disaster. The 15-17 to Paris If you or anyone in your life were deeply touched by Vietnam, this film will present the war in a deeper and more moving way than any other film you have ever seen. 6. 1985: Silver Bullet And the most intelligent political movie of the election year? While some Americans were fighting in Vietnam, others were protesting the war in the streets at home. 14. The movie's last shot is a true shocker. "Wanda" was directed by Charles Crichton ("The Lavender Hill Mob"), a legendary veteran of the classic Ealing comedies. 2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 1992: A Few Good Men https://www.cbsnews.com/media/roger-eberts-10-greatest-films-of-all-time 1991: Beauty and the Beast Jersey Boys Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. "Au revoir les enfants" was French director Louis Malle's boyhood memory from World War Two, of a Catholic boarding school where a handful of Jewish students were enrolled under false names, to protect them from the Nazis. In that case, the men were recently separated from women; in this case, they are angels who have never touched a woman, or anything else in the physical world. 2001: A Space Odyssey The movie looks and feels like a violent cop thriller, but Woods puts a spin on the material. RELATED: 10 Beloved Movies That Roger Ebert Hated. Roger Ebert’s Final List of His Top 10 Favorite Films. A film you dislike deserves all the same passion you bestow on the films you love otherwise just get up and leave the theater after the trailers have concluded because you have nothing deeper to offer medium. 4. It's a thriller directed by Mike Figgis and set on a seedy British waterfront where Griffith is a party girl who gets caught between two tough guys (Sting and Tommy Lee Jones). Having listed the year's 10 best films, I must go ahead to admit that any "best 10" list is an arbitrary, unsatisfactory, and highly subjective way to rank films. Even more dramatic was an interview in the film with David Harris, the chief witness against Adams, who all but confesses that he committed the murder himself. !…Just strange how these 2 people even found there way to comment on this thread linked to one of the most famous film critics of all time … some one who absolutely adored film and even for a film that Roger Ebert loathed he at least had enough respect for films he hated to bestow upon them a liteny of adjectives to which they would be laid to shame in that they could at least be proud that they died a good death. 1987: The Running Man Roger's Greatest Movies. 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