Every year the film world loses a great many talents from both in front of and behind the screen. But film critics, for whatever reason, don’t get that smattering of solemn, respectful applause that comes around on Oscar night. So often they are regarded as parasites, whose entire source of income is schadenfreude and whose purpose is increasingly non-existent in the internet age. All of which makes Roger Ebert’s recent death at the age of 70 all the more tragic and remarkable.
I’ve written many obituaries to famous film figures on my blog, Mumby at the Movies. Whenever the need to pay tribute arises, I always attempt to explain how the individual in question has impacted on me personally, to make the whole experience a little less prone to platitude. With Roger Ebert, I find myself at a complete loss in doing so. Not because the man left...
I’ve written many obituaries to famous film figures on my blog, Mumby at the Movies. Whenever the need to pay tribute arises, I always attempt to explain how the individual in question has impacted on me personally, to make the whole experience a little less prone to platitude. With Roger Ebert, I find myself at a complete loss in doing so. Not because the man left...
- 4/6/2013
- by Daniel Mumby
- Obsessed with Film
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