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The legendary film critic Roger Ebert called film “the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts”. Cinema offers us complete immersion in another reality, taking us on an almost out-of ...
In 1998, he and his wife, Chaz, brought the Ebertfest Film Festival to his hometown. He said that empathy was one of the most important aspects of civilization, and that movies were a giant empathy machine. He was a visionary, mentor and technologist. And a loving husband and family man. Sculpture by Rick Harney.
Roger Joseph Ebert (/ ˈ iː b ər t / EE-bərt; 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.
Stephen Holden from The New York Times said, "Roger Ebert once called the movies 'a machine that generates empathy,' and Starless Dreams... is just such a machine. With the conceptual rigor and emotional directness associated with the best of Iranian cinema Oskouei simply listens to the stories of those who have never been listened to before."
Film critic Roger Ebert called this movie, about a sharecropper family in 1933 Louisiana, "one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed ...
Film critic Roger Ebert, an early supporter, said $400,000 more was eventually spent by the distributor on sound, print, score and music/clip clearances to bring the film to theaters. [8] The film went on to win the Best Documentary Award from the National Society of Film Critics , [ 9 ] also was nominated for the Independent Spirits , the ...
Spielberg described his ideas for the film's technology to Roger Ebert before the film's release: [13]. I wanted all the toys to come true someday. I want there to be a transportation system that doesn't emit toxins into the atmosphere.