![]() ![]() Life Itself chronicles Ebert's life, starting with his passion for writing and journalism. However, one also sees why so many, both high and low, thought so well of this highly intelligent and fierce man. ![]() Life Itself, the Ebert story, is to its credit not a hagiography, allowing for some of Ebert's more negative aspects to appear. One wonders what he would have made of Life Itself or whether he would be displeased it shared the same title. ![]() I confess I was also inspired because of the film of the same name. Now, I revisit his life and work with Life Itself, the documentary based on his memoir that chronicled both his life and his ultimately losing battle with cancer. On his death in 2013, I wrote my own Remembrance to this giant of film history and criticism. There is not one film reviewer/critic who does not hold Roger Ebert as the standard to whom they measure themselves against. ![]()
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