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One Life is a 2023 biographical drama film directed by James Hawes. [3] Based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, the film alternates between following Anthony Hopkins as a 79-year old Winton reminiscing on his past, and Johnny Flynn as a 29-year old Winton who successfully helps 669 predominantly Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938 ...
Roger Joseph Ebert (/ ˈ iː b ər t / EE-burt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author.He was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.
RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays. The website, underwritten by the Chicago Sun-Times, was launched in 2002. [1] Ebert handpicked writers from around the world to contribute to the website.
An Unfinished Life opened at number 16 at the domestic box office on a limited release, earning $1,008,308 during its opening weekend. In its second weekend, with a wider release, the film rose to number 11 with $2,052,066. [5] Despite its $30 million budget, the film made only $18,618,284 worldwide by the time of its closing.
The keyword in all the advance talk about Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” was linear. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, was supposed to mark the reclusive but ...
Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) [1] is an American columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's successor.
The film makes use of footage and interviews with American film critic Roger Ebert during the final months of his life interspersed with interviews of his friends, colleagues, and family including: Chaz Ebert (his wife), Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, A.O. Scott, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ramin Bahrani, Gregory Nava, Richard Corliss, and Ava DuVernay, among others.
The show originally featured Roger Ebert, a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Gene Siskel, a film critic for the Chicago Tribune. The two newspapers were competitors, and so were Siskel and Ebert. As Ebert wrote after Siskel's death in 1999: We both thought of ourselves as full-service, one-stop film critics.