The experience of watching “The Doors” is not always very pleasant. There are the songs, of course, and some electrifying concert moments, but mostly there is the mournful, self-pitying descent of this young man into selfish and boring stupor. Having seen this movie, I am not sad to ha...
Tolkin goes for it. I must be careful not to reveal too much, but let me say that when the bars began to drop from the doors of the jail cells, and fell with a clank to the stone floors, I remembered the nuns describing that final day, when the dead would rise up from the grave...
AID=/19970216/REVIEWS08/401010350/1023Roger Ebert / February 16, 1997You cannot know the history of silent film unless you know the face of Renee Maria Falconetti. In a medium without words, where the filmmakers believed that the camera captured the essence of characters through their faces, to...
Thumbs down reviews have had the opposite effect but many filmmakers feel that ultimately it is up to the public to choose what films they see and many directors/producers speak to the benefits that exposure on Siskel & Ebert can provide. Notwithstanding, there have been occasional disgruntled ...
“The gypsies are a theme. And nothing more. I could just as well be a poet of sewing needles or hydraulic landscapes. Besides, this gypsyism gives me the appearance of an uncultured, ignorant and primitive poet that you know very well I’m not. I don’t want to be typecast”. ...
Also, some of you are aware of the passing of film critic Roger Ebert. It came as a bit of a shock since I had grown up watching him with Richard Roeper for a time. It was great to see him analyze films in his own way, and his written reviews kind of made me want to write bl...
the McMillan Library in Nairobi and its two regional branches. It’s a formidable chore but one that’s desperately needed to benefit local readers and students. However, the pair must confront the library’s racist history that once excluded its Black readers from entering its doors and ...
like when Dubois and his guys walk climactically into an elevator, and climb towards Jon’s apartment. A feeling of déjà vu might set in as you watch the doors close on Reno’s gaunt, disengaged profile. Didn’t I already see this scene in “Die Hard,”“Sudden Death,”“Under Siege...
to the days when the shopping mall was a farmer’s field (there’s a nice gag when the farmer thinks the De Lorean, with its gull-wing doors, is a flying saucer). Marty wanders into town, still wearing his 1985 clothing, and the townsfolk look at his goose down jacket and ask him...
s not just that specific film that speaks to them—it’s the sense that the potential of the form is limitless as long as people like Lynch are involved. The entire art form was shifted by him and is now lessened by his absence. We owe it to him to burst through the doors he ...