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Ebert and stood

When asked
by Ebert where the Reichswehr
stood, von Seeckt answered “
The Reichswehr stands behind me ”,
and after the question whether the Reichswehr was reliable
, Seeckt answered: “ I don't know if it is reliable
but it obeys my orders !”.

In
a question
and answer session following
a festival screening
, in response to an audience member who asked director Lin if he thought it was irresponsible to portray Asian-Americans
in such
a negative light
, Roger
Ebert stood up
and said
, angrily
, " You wouldn't say
that to
a white filmmaker ".
Ebert and by

Roger
Ebert approves of the use of the label
in unsuccessful films
that had been tampered
with by studio executives
, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon
a Time
in America
, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil
, which were altered
by studio interference for their theatrical release
.

* An article
by critic Roger
Ebert describing
his involvement
with science fiction fanzines
in the 1950s
.

Film critic Roger
Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half
stars out of four
, calling it " delightful
and sly ",
and directed
with " light-hearted enchantment "
by Newell
.

* Great Movies: Nanook of the North ( 1922 )
by Roger
Ebert

* Criterion Collection essay
by Roger
Ebert

* " Great Movies " review
by Roger
Ebert

" Roger
Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Tate as "
a wonder to behold ",
but after describing the dialogue
in one scene as " the most offensive
and appalling vulgarity ever thrown up
by any civilization ", concluded
that, " I will be unable to take her any more seriously as
a sex symbol than Raquel Welch
.

Film critic Roger
Ebert wrote
that the book was " banal ,"
and that "
The Little Engine That Could is
, by comparison
, a work of some depth
and ambition
.

Roger Joseph
Ebert (; born June 18
, 1942 ) is an American journalist
, film critic
and screenwriter
, who has been described
by Forbes as " the most powerful pundit
in America ".

Ebert's most recent show
, Ebert Presents: At the Movies
, premiered on January 21
, 2011
, with Ebert contributing
a review voiced
by someone else
in a brief segment called " Roger's Office ".

In 1975
, Ebert and Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune began co-hosting
a weekly film review television show
, Sneak Previews
, which was locally produced
by the Chicago public broadcasting station WTTW
.

In January 2005
, when Rob Schneider insulted Los Angeles Times movie critic Patrick Goldstein
, who panned
his movie Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
, by commenting
that the critic was unqualified because he
had never won the Pulitzer Prize
, Ebert intervened
by stating
that, as
a Pulitzer winner
, he was qualified to review the film
, and bluntly told Schneider
, " Your movie sucks
.
Ebert has been accused
by some horror movie fans of bourgeois elitism
in his dismissal of what he calls " Dead Teenager Movies ".
Ebert responded
that the charge of prejudice was merely
a euphemism for disagreement
, that merely being moved
by an experience does not denote it as artistic
, and that critics are also consumers
.

Cracked
. com writer Robert Brockway responded
by opining
that this made
Ebert unqualified to judge video games
, and that debating
Ebert on such
a topic was comparable to "
a structured philosophical debate on the importance of pacifism
and restraint
with a rabid badger: Your opponent is not only unqualified from the start
, but it's obviously just
out to attack you
.
Ebert was also interviewed
by Central Park Media for an extra feature on the DVD release of the anime film Grave of the Fireflies
.

In 1996
, Ebert appeared
in Pitch
, a documentary
by Canadian film makers Spencer Rice
and Kenny Hotz
.

On May 4
, 2010
, Ebert was announced
by the International Academy of Digital Arts
and Sciences as the Webby Person of the Year having taken to the Internet following
his battle
with cancer
.

During
a 1996 panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Conference on World Affairs
, Ebert coined
The Boulder Pledge
, by which he vowed never to purchase anything offered through the result of an unsolicited email message
, or to forward chain emails or mass emails to others
.
Ebert and opinions
Ebert revisits
and sometimes revises
his opinions.

At the Movies ( originally Siskel
and Ebert and The Movies
, and later At the Movies
with Ebert and Roeper ) is
a movie review television program produced
by Disney-ABC Domestic Television
in which two film critics shared their
opinions of newly released films
.
Ebert and with

In
a review
in the Chicago Sun-Times
, Roger
Ebert states: " Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it
with such grave calm
.
The Weimar Republic under Friedrich
Ebert violently suppressed workers ' uprisings
with the help of Gustav Noske
and Reichswehr General Groener
, and tolerated the paramilitary Freikorps forming all across Germany
.

Even provisional President Friedrich
Ebert contributed to the myth
when he saluted returning veterans
with the oration
that " no enemy has vanquished you " ( kein Feind hat euch überwunden!

" Movie critic Roger
Ebert compared the film
with a later remake:

Although movie critic Roger
Ebert was not impressed
with most of the other actors
, he writes
in his review
, " ... we discover once again what
a warm
and engaging actor Peter Falk is
.

One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger
Ebert, and in fact
, the film's reputation has grown
in recent years
, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous
in the works of such directors as David Lynch
and Quentin Tarantino
.
Ebert concludes
his review
with the following line: " Every time I see the film
, I feel
a great sadness
, that a human imagination could be so limited
that it sees its own extinction as
a victory
.

Film critic Roger
Ebert speculates
in his review
that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei (
in which the samurai shaves off
his topknot
, a sign of honor among samurai
, in order to pose as
a monk to rescue
a boy from
a kidnapper ) could be the origin of the practice
, now common
in action movies
, of introducing the main hero
with an undertaking unrelated to the main plot
.

* 1957 Interbau Apartment blocks
, Hansaviertel
, Berlin
, Germany
, with The Architects ' Collaborative
and Wils
Ebert

Film critic Roger
Ebert gave the film four
out of four
stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller "
and "
one of the best films so far this year ",
with a " wonderful " ending
.

Roger
Ebert awarded the film two-and-a-half
stars out of four
, writing: " It is
a well-directed film
, because Besson has
a natural gift for plunging into drama
with a charged-up visual style
.

Roger
Ebert stated
, " This is
one of the smartest
and most provocative of science fiction films
, a thriller
with ideas
.

Roger
Ebert compared the nature
and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales
with his Man
with No Name character
in the Dollars westerns
and praised the film's atmosphere
.

Roger
Ebert wrote
, " Streep
and Eastwood weave
a spell
, and it is based on
that particular knowledge of love
and self
that comes
with middle age
.
The film met
with generally positive reviews ; Roger
Ebert gave it
three and a half stars and described it as
a " very good film ...
with moments evoking great emotion ", while Variety Todd McCarthy wrote
, " Inspirational on the face of it
, Clint Eastwood's film has
a predictable trajectory
, but every scene brims
with surprising details
that accumulate into
a rich fabric of history
, cultural impressions
and emotion
.
Ebert is known for
his film review column ( appearing
in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967
, and later online )
and for the television programs Sneak Previews
, At the Movies
with Gene Siskel
and Roger
Ebert, and Siskel
and Ebert and The Movies
, all of which he co-hosted for
a combined 23 years
with Gene Siskel
.
Ebert and one

Roger
Ebert, who gave the film
a mere
one star
in the Chicago Sun-Times
, wrote :"
The filmmakers must have known
that the original Godzilla ( 1956 )
had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue
, the bad lip-synching
, the unbelievable special effects
, the phony profundity
.

Roger
Ebert said of
his performance: " For
one thing
, there's more of
a human element
in the movie
, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer
, as Largo
.

Roger
Ebert commented
that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was
one of the " creepier " aspects of the film
, and mentioned her ability to convey the impression of great age inside apparent youth
.

One of Scorsese's most consistent supporters
, Roger
Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times
, wrote
that " In countless ways
, right down to the detail of modern TV crime shows
, Mean Streets is
one of the source points of modern movies
.

Critical reception was mostly positive ; critics including Roger
Ebert considered it
one of the best Star Trek films
.

Roger
Ebert instantly praised it as
one of the greatest films he ’ d ever seen
, claiming: " Taxi Driver " is
a hell
, from the opening shot of
a cab emerging from stygian clouds of steam to the climactic killing scene
in which the camera finally looks straight down
.

Roger
Ebert gave the film
a four-star
rating and described it as
one that " involves us deeply
in the story
, and then it reveals
that the story is really about something else altogether
.
The film led Roger
Ebert to call Reiner "
one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy ",
and said
that it was " most conventional
, in terms of structure
and the way it fulfills our expectations
.

Roger
Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times
, wrote
, " What's nicest about the film is the way it treasures the good feelings people can have for
one another ".

Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger
Ebert ranked it as
one of Allen's best
.

Roger
Ebert noted
that " Metropolis is
one of the great achievements of the silent era
, a work so audacious
in its vision
and so angry
in its message
that it is
, if anything
, more powerful today than
when it was made
.
Ebert has occasionally accused some films of having an unwholesome political agenda
, and the word " fascist " accompanied more than
one of Ebert's reviews of the law-and-order films of the 1970s such as Dirty Harry
.
Ebert has clarified
that he does not disparage horror movies as
a whole
, but that he draws
a distinction between films like Nosferatu
and The Silence of the Lambs
, which he regards as " masterpieces ",
and films which he feels consist of nothing more than groups of teenagers being killed off
with the
exception of
one survivor to populate
a sequel
.
Ebert is
one of the principal critics featured
in Gerald Peary's 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies:
The Story of American Film Criticism
.

At
one point
, his status was so precarious
that Ebert had a tracheotomy performed on
his neck to reduce the effort of breathing while he recovered
.

Although doctors have asked him to allow them to make
one more attempt to restore
his voice
, Ebert has refused
, indicating
that he is done
with surgery
, and will likely decline significant intervention even if
his cancer returns
, as he feels
that the last procedure he underwent did more harm than good
.

marked
a turning point
in his career
, one that would make him
, in the words of film critic Roger
Ebert, " the Olivier of spoofs
.

Roger
Ebert, who reacted favorably to other films of Romero's Dead Series
, gave Day of the Dead
one and a half stars.

( 1962 )
in 2008
, Ebert asserted
that " no
one who has seen the film will ever forget her
.

Both Gene Siskel
and Roger
Ebert ranked the film as the best of 1989
and later ranked it as
one of the top 10 films of the decade ( Siskel No
. 6
, Ebert # 4 ).
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