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Roger Ebert Quotes about Film

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

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

Movie, Gambling, Film

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Film, Good Films

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Actors, Defining Moments, Film

Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.81, University of Chicago Press

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

Film

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

Running, Looks, Film

Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.240, Andrews McMeel Publishing

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Character, Hollywood, Film

"Dirty Love" wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent... I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

Dirty, Levels, Film

Roger Ebert's review of "Dirty Love", www.rogerebert.com. September 22, 2005.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

Games, Lists, Film

Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.78, University of Chicago Press

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Film, Hell, Broke

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

Beautiful, Documentaries, Film

"Queen of the Sun" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. April 27, 2011.

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

Running, Lines, Film

Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

Fargo, Film

Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.193, University of Chicago Press

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

Waste, Film, Terrible

Roger Ebert's review of "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III", www.rogerebert.com. February 12, 2013.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

Arguing, Film, Young

Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.258, Crown Archetype

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Excellence, Film, Distinguished

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

Film, Arcane, Theory

"Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." by David Weddle, articles.latimes.com. July 13, 2003.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Class, America, Film

Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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