Roger Ebert Death Anniversary: 10 of His Best Writings.
This scene, early in Cameron Crowe's ''Say Anything,'' reflects many of the virtues of the movie. In a lesser film Lloyd would have gotten Diane on the phone with the first try. But it is important to establish her father James (John Mahoney) as a major player, a man whose daughter chose to live with him after a divorce, and who tells her she can say anything to him.The telephone rings at 3 a.m. and a pregnant woman puts on her police uniform to go out into the Minnesota winter and investigate a homicide. “Eggs,” her sleepy husband says. He'll make her eggs. We see the them eating on a Formica table in the kitchen; steps lead down to the back door. He stays at the table as she goes outside. Then she returns, his head tilting as he hears her. “Hon.The Great Movies IV is the fourth—and final—collection of Roger Ebert’s essays, comprising sixty-two reviews of films ranging from the silent era to the recent past.
Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, “They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which.We at the Balcony would like to commemorate the premiere of that doc by having a little celebration of Ebert’s work with some of his most memorable Great Movies essays, the pieces where he shone a light on some of his favorite films and some of the most important works in cinema.
Roger Ebert's The Great Movies Books and Related Website: Film critic Roger Ebert has penned several books on cinema, including popular video guides and three editions of the 100 essay The Great Movies,The Great Movies II, and The Great Movies III (see below), based upon his Chicago Sun-Times website articles on The Great Movies.
