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"For me the human face is the most important subject of the cinema."

—Ingmar Bergman speaking to Roger Ebert in 1975

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In Dallas for the premiere of 9 to 5, I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke, I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing or comforting. Gene listened, and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.

Excerpt from Roger Ebert's autobiography where he talks about his first meeting with Dolly Parton [X]

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Film Students Mourn Knowing That Roger Ebert Will Never Get The Chance To Hate One Of Their Movies

Last night over one hundred Chicago based film students gathered for a candle light vigil outside the Gene Siskel Film Center to honor the life of Pulitzer Prize winning Film Critic, Roger Ebert, and mourn the death of a dream.

“The only reason I went to film school was so Roger Ebert could hate one of my films,” said Ryan Fout, a Directing major at Columbia College Chicago. “His verbal dismantling of the movie North made me rethink my entire childhood. I always dreamt that he would ‘hate, hate, hate’ something of mine as much as he hated, hated, hated that movie.”

Liz Tobin, a grad student in the Northwestern University Film Program, said having Roger Ebert call the plot of your film “contrived, boring trash” and your characters “one-dimensional idiots” would be an honor for any young filmmaker. “It would give you a peace of mind knowing that you would have been better off going to med school like your parents begged you to.”

Between moments of silence, the students openly reminisced about their fallen idol while pitching each other ideas he was sure to abhor. Romantic Comedies about suicide. Sci-fi Action/Thrillers featuring Justin Bieber clones about suicide. A remake of Glengarry Glen Ross using the hairpieces of politicians instead of actual actors. “I’ve got over three hours of black and white footage of a plastic bag stuck in a tree for my film about a plastic bag who commits suicide that Mr. Ebert wouldn’t have been able to stand,” added a teary eyed Fout.

After twenty minutes the memorial ended. The crowd then filed into the revered theatre for a special screening of GI Joe: Retaliation to fantasize about the Ebert pen lashing that could have been, before returning to their dorms to start pre-production on their latest short film about a basketball playing robot that commits suicide.