Den 66-årige amerikanske filmkritiker Roger Ebert vil 31. januar modtage en Honorary Life Member Award af sammenslutningen af instruktører i USA, Directors Guild of America (DGA).
DGA-præsident og instruktør Michael Apted siger: ”Fra blockbusteren til den mindste indie-film har Roger Ebert dedikeret sin karriere til at dele sin kærlighed til film med flere generationer af biografgængere… Derved har han holdt instruktørerne på mærkerne i mere end 40 år.”
Eberts anmeldelser bringes i mere end 200 aviser, og han har skrevet 17 bøger. I 1975 var han den første filmkritiker, der vandt Pulitzer-prisen, og i 2005 fik han en stjerne på Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Som følgerne af en kræftbehandling mistede Roger Ebert sin stemme i 2006 og måtte derfor stoppe som medvært på programmet “Ebert & Roeper”. Han er dog fortsat som meget aktiv filmanmelder og har en populær blog, som han skriver hver uge.
#1 Wrangque 15 år siden
Tillyke til ham!
#2 MikkelHJ 15 år siden
Jeg kan på det varmeste anbefale hans bog: "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie", der er fyldt med de bedste anmeldelser af de værste film.
#3 Highland Park 15 år siden
#4 chandler75 15 år siden
#5 elwood 15 år siden
"Schneider retaliated by attacking Goldstein in full-page ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. In an open letter to Goldstein, Schneider wrote: 'Well, Mr. Goldstein, I decided to do some research to find out what awards you have won. I went online and found that you have won nothing. Absolutely nothing. No journalistic awards of any kind. . . . Maybe you didn't win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven't invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who's Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers. . . .'
"Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks. But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo while passing on the opportunity to participate in Million Dollar Baby, Ray, The Aviator, Sideways, and Finding Neverland. As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."
Så blir det ik bedre 8-)
Tom Cruise: "I just love this scene, and the set"
#6 Highland Park 15 år siden
Normalt er jeg ikke interesseret i den slags bøger, hvor den ene efter den anden bliver hængt ud, men når det er Ebert, forestiller jeg mig, at det er så velskrevet og med et tilpas stort glimt i øjet til, at jeg kan fordøje skidtet. :)
#7 chandler75 15 år siden
#8 dslacker 15 år siden
Læser ham jævnligt. Og det er ikke kun de dårlige anmeldelser der er sjove, men hele hans serie af Greatest Movies er nok et af de bedste bud på en global filmkanon, der løbende opdateres.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=18871440
#9 MikkelHJ 15 år siden
A bouquet arrives... (7. maj, 2007)
"A beautiful bouquet of flowers was delivered to the house the other day. A handwritten note paid compliments to my work and wished me a speedy recovery.
Who was it from? A friend? A colleague? An old classmate? The card was signed, “Your Least Favorite Movie Star, Rob Schneider.”
Saints preserve us.
It will help to establish a context if I mention that my review of Schneider’s latest film, “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo,” contained three words which provided me with the title of my new book: “Your Movie Sucks.”
I regard the flowers and intuit they were not sent in the spirit of irony. Despite my review, Rob Schneider was moved to make a kind and generous gesture, one person to another.
The bouquet didn’t change my opinion of his movie, but I don’t think he intended that. It was a way of stepping back. It was a reminder that in the great scheme of things, a review doesn’t mean very much.
Sometimes when I write a negative review, people will say, “I’ll bet you can’t wait to hammer his next film.” Not true. I would far rather praise the next film to show that I maintained an open mind.
When Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny” played at Cannes in 2003, I walked out of the screening and declared it “the worst movie in the history of the film festival.” This was an unwise thing to do. My policy for years has been to avoid giving a negative review of a festival film until it has a chance to open.
Gallo issued a curse on my colon. I responded that the video of my colonoscopy was more entertaining than his film, and there the matter rested until 2004, when Gallo released a “final cut” of “The Brown Bunny” which was re-edited and 30 minutes shorter. I went to see it, and now I could see better what he was getting at, and I gave it a positive review.
“Ill bet you hated to change your mind,” I was told. No, I was happy to. It is a hard and frustrating thing to make a movie, and credit must be given where due.
Now we come back to the flowers. They were a reminder, if I needed one, that although Rob Schneider might (in my opinion) have made a bad movie, he is not a bad man, and no doubt tried to make a wonderful movie, and hopes to again. I hope so, too.
Thanks, Rob."
#10 Patriarch 15 år siden