{"id":22427,"date":"2013-04-04T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=22427"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:03:00","slug":"roger-ebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/roger-ebert\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Ebert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-WIFF-2006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22428\" title=\"Roger WIFF 2006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-WIFF-2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-WIFF-2006.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-WIFF-2006-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-WIFF-2006-387x300.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Roger Ebert at 4 Star Video Heaven, Madison, Wisconsin, 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kristin and David:<\/p>\n<p>Roger died today. We can&#8217;t do him justice in such short compass, but we do want to acknowledge him and his life. He was an unstinting friend to us, and a great and good force in American film culture.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Sun-Times<\/em> obituary is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/17320958-761\/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Later 4 April:<\/strong> Jim Emerson&#8217;s personal tribute is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/scanners\/2013\/04\/thinking_of_roger.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 April:<\/strong> Chaz Ebert&#8217;s statement is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2013\/04\/a_statement_from_chaz_ebert.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 April:<\/strong> Jim Emerson has gathered a constantly expanding collection of tributes <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/remembrances-of-roger.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 April:<\/strong> Rodney Powell of the University of Chicago Press offers recollections <a href=\"http:\/\/pressblog.uchicago.edu\/2013\/04\/05\/roger-ebert-1942-2013.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-and-Chaz-Efest-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22431\" title=\"Roger and Chaz Efest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-and-Chaz-Efest-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-and-Chaz-Efest-.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-and-Chaz-Efest--150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger-and-Chaz-Efest--500x211.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Roger and Chaz Ebert, Ebertfest, Urbana, Illinois, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ebert at 4 Star Video Heaven, Madison, Wisconsin, 2003. Kristin and David: Roger died today. We can&#8217;t do him justice in such short compass, but we do want to acknowledge him and his life. He was an unstinting friend to us, and a great and good force in American film culture. The Sun-Times obituary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,34,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-comments","category-people-we-like","category-readers-favorite-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22427"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22452,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions\/22452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}