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MOVIE HALL OF FAME-Update
I’m happy to report that after that after some long deliberation I have selected the inaugural class of films for my Movie Hall of Fame section. Because this is the first class, I have selected 12 All-Time Favorites. Each class there after will be a maximum of 6 films. Trying to select ONLY twelve films […]
Life Itself (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy The live streaming feed of Steve James’ documentary about Roger Ebert has ended almost 50 minutes ago, and I’m sitting here with a page of jumbled thoughts and reactions strewn up and down my Open Office document. It is a chaotic mixture of sentence fragments and rambling streams of thought patiently waiting […]
I am Roger Ebert-Life Itself Backer #514
Thanks, @AmateurCinephile, Backer #514! Your #Ebertreview is THE MECHANIC, from 11/30/1972: http://t.co/UL8AXGRkqq. http://t.co/ZVssi1JgZW — Life Itself (@EbertMovie) December 8, 2013 Tonight at 5:15pm MST in Park City, Utah the world premiere of the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself will be held at the Sundance Film Festival. Thanks to their fan funding campaign I have […]
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Review by: Jarrett Leahy “Not all good movies are about Good People. I also like movies about Bad People who have a sense of humor. Orson Welles, who does not play either of the Good People in The Third Man, has such a winning way, such witty dialogue, that for a scene or two we […]
The Act of Killing (2013)
Review by: Jarrett Leahy Former Indonesian death squad leaders use various cinema genres to reenact the horrific mass killings they perpetrated on thousands of people during the mid-to-late 1960’s. How about that for a synopsis? Trying to come up with a grade for The Act of Killing was difficult. Some called it the most important […]
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