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Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

4/5/2013

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Yesterday was a sad day for humanity. Roger Ebert passed away. I'm a creature of habit, and one thing I do after watching any movie, is read Ebert's review. I learned a lot of what I know about cinema from reading his reviews. I remember during college waiting up every Sunday to watch Ebert & Roeper and would often watch or not watch a movie based on the direction of his thumb. In fact, I'm working on watching 365 movies this year and I'm using his list of Great Movies as a reference guide. What I like about the list is the wide variety of films. Ebert judged and reviewed films based on the film itself. Not the country it was produced in or the budget of the movie. I almost cried last night thinking that this list will never get any bigger and knowing that I will not be able to read his reviews on any new movies. 
This line from a NY Times article brought a ray of sunshine to my cloudy day.

"Mr. Ebert — who said he saw 500 films a year and reviewed half of them — was once asked what movie he thought was shown over and over again in heaven, and what snack would be free of charge and calories there.

“ ‘Citizen Kane’ and vanilla Häagen-Dazs ice cream,” he answered."

Hopefully, one day in the near future, I'll get the chance to sit down with Mr. Ebert and watch 'Citizen Kane' while eating Haagen-Dazs ice cream.  
- Isaiah Mouw
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