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<\/p>\nReviewed by Mina\u00a0Gilbertsson. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2015.<\/p>\n
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Robert Ebert (1942\u20132013<\/span>)\u00a0was an American film critic from Urbana, Illinois. His career began\u00a0when he started writing for the Chicago Sun Times’ magazine in 1966. Mr. Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, the year\u00a0he also created Siskel and Ebert – the film discussing television show with\u00a0Gene Siskel.<\/p>\n Life Itself is a documentary devided into chapters like Mr. Ebert’s memoir with the same titel. The film covers the\u00a0remarkable success, the\u00a0alcoholism, the death of his fellow co-host Mr. Siskel and the\u00a0cancer.<\/p>\n The first scene shows the audience Ebert’s state during the five months of filmning. By the time they were filming, Ebert had lost all ability to talk, leaving writing as the only communication he had. Even though, the audience could tell\u00a0that he was in more pain than he was letting on, it never went too long before he cracked a smile. His strenght and his cheerful\u00a0self inspired me and probably many others to always be stay strong and to always look on the bright side.<\/p>\n Robert’s wife Chaz Ebert was very sceptical to the fact that they could film Robert during some of his difficult times. She\u00a0felt uncomfortable with cameras around during\u00a0such private moments, but when she heard what Robert had to say, she changed her mind. He did not want any glamour in the film – only the true and full story – without any secrets. Something that I believe\u00a0came from the fact that\u00a0Gene Siskel hid his cancer.<\/p>\n Chaz Ebert told the audience after the screening that she is working on keeping her husband’s legacy alive. She takes care of his site and makes sure that the articles and the reviews are published. Long live Robert Ebert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by Mina\u00a0Gilbertsson. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2015. Robert Ebert (1942\u20132013)\u00a0was an American film critic from Urbana, Illinois. His career began\u00a0when he started writing for the Chicago Sun Times’ magazine in 1966. Mr. Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, the year\u00a0he also created Siskel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}