link to favorite ebert, siskel, and roeper clips here

the one where they just insult each other pwns obvy

blue velvet:

http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=6&subsec=babe

wait, that's not right

http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=6&subsec=blue+velvet

I spent a couple of hours on Friday morning watching them. I'm struck by how patient and intelligent Ebert sounds even when making banal remarks or obvious points (which is most of the time). Siskel's early antipathy towards fags and modern Hollywood's "lack of morals" very striking (check out his review of My Own Private Idaho).

beaten to blue velvet clip! is great, innit?

Case in point about how obtuse Ebert can be. To hate the film because Lynch handles Isabella Rosselini's nudity in a shameful manner? Has he seen the film?

oh, and of course the outtake where they just insult each other

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rmnYCSwt2Js

I think Ebert at that point was just being cap'n save-a-ho about Blue Velvet.

Ebert thinks that Full Metal Jacket pales in comparison to Platoon!

On letterman, 1991:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B2ByBqPXonI

I dunno: the first "fight" looks quite staged.

"Kingpin was a much funnier film set in the world of bowling"

Siskel so wrong on The Big Lebowski, but points to Ebert for using "way out of their element" in his rebuttal.

http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=6&subsec=the+big+lebowski

i've never seen any evidence that siskel had anything to say as a critic, but i like some of his lists

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Siskel:

Chicago film critics who often attended the same screenings as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were aware that Ebert was a hard-core film buff and Siskel, who died in early 1999, was someone whose interest in film, at least to all appearances, was almost exclusively professional (when he first started writing for the Chicago Tribune, his main beat was real estate). Ebert attends several film festivals every year. Siskel generally made it to few or none; he attended Cannes only once, as a TV reviewer in 1990, and showed no interest in returning, and one could surmise that his relatively low recognition factor abroad might have been partly to blame. Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own it would surprise me. Inside the profession, Siskel was famous for making so many gaffes about movies in his weekly print reviews that in the Reader Neil Tesser used to inventory them in an occasional Hot Type item called "Siskel Watch"; Siskel's mistakes apparently became fewer after his copy began to be checked by others.

Very interesting.

More here.

(About two-thirds of the way down the page.)

not surprising tho

more S&E on Letterman, always a good time:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EC0hnZEz5Qs

siskel's favorite movie was Saturday Night Fever and he even bought Travolta's suit from it

Ebert would often boast about this or that Henry James or E.M. Forster novel being a personal favorite, while Siskel would offer nothing.

To hate the film because Lynch handles Isabella Rosselini's nudity in a shameful manner? Has he seen the film?

daer mr. ebert,

how did you feel about the beyond the valley of the dollsscreenwriter's handling of the scene where a girl wakes up from a dream fellating the barrel of a revolver before it blows off her head off?

-pt

(shit. typos. i need to sleeeep.)

Martin Scorsese top 4 movies of the 90s:

4. Eyes Wide Shut
3. A Borrowed Life
2. The Thin Red Line
1. Horse Thief

Ebert:

4. Fargo
3. Goodfellas
2. Pulp Fiction
1. Hoop Dreams

xpost re: Ebert - he dislikes movies for that kind of reason all the time. Didn't like the end of Fight Club because it was too violent, for example. And yet Goodfellas is one of his favorite movies. umkay.

lol "That's this week on Siskel...and Ebert...and the Movies...and the Asshole"

"Oh but Gene what about the INTERNATIONAL BANKERS...and the COMMIES...and the Catholics & the FUCKING Jews!"

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Director:Russ Meyer
Writers: Roger Ebert (story)
Russ Meyer (story)
more
Release Date:17 June 1970 (USA) more
Tagline:This time... they've really gone more
Plot Outline:Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.

(see what i did there?)

hey, scorsese has good taste in other peoples' movies

WTF GUYS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NitqF5_MhW0

John Simon and Siskel & Ebert discuss Return of the Jedi with on Nightline:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB3V3qyZiFM

re: Ebert - he dislikes movies for that kind of reason all the time. Didn't like the end of Fight Club because it was too violent, for example. And yet Goodfellas is one of his favorite movies. umkay.

Well, he found the end of Fight Club to be endorsing a kind of fascism, which Goodfellas did not.

I think his belief in judging a filmaker's moral stance is one of the more interesting aspects of his criticism (see recent reviews of Chaos and Wolf Creek for examples of this).

I agree, I like the strong stance. But there are other instances in which he gets completely caught up in some aspect of the film that causes him to miss the larger point.

hey, scorsese has good taste in other peoples' movies

also, i could listen to him talk about movies all day

Can we please replace Roeper with like a robot or something. That dude is so worthless. And that Phillips guy is just as bad.

Siskel: "Let me ask you, Mr. Simon, wasn't your heart warmed even a bit by Yoda?"

John Simon called a play that I wrote "a slice of life crying out for butter, cheese, or meat."

he made a whole career out of making fun of Barbra Streisand's face.

John Simon does not recommend himself as a dinner guest, does he?

I have a soft spot for curmudgeons like John Simon and John Derbyshire. I don't respect their opinions or politics, but as rumpled tweedy likely repressed homosexual men, they're fun to have around sometimes.

Derbyshire's the perfect example.

MORE S&E on Letterman. I like this one especially.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16vyVD1DOvU&mode=related&search=

They talk about Blue Velvet here, btw -- Siskel calls him cap'n save-a-ho, essentially.

i want more classic clips from films other than blue velvet. show me them.

Dude, go to the website and pork away, pal.

Also, Mark Kermode hated Blue Velvet when he first saw, but was convinced to see it again and thought it was a masterpiece. Has Ebert ever changed his mind about it?

xpost

I've been at the pub, and am not thinking clearly enough to consider the classic videos (nor am I old enough, mind). so link more, people!

Has Ebert ever changed his mind about it?

He is incredibly stubborn like that. I also like to imagine he saw Brazil a second time, realized what a grievous error it was to give it two stars, but was too proud to admit it.

He did reconsider the South Park movie, iirc.

armond white was all like, "these two new guys are wonderful, not like those previous hacks"

Welcome news. Scott's a better critic than Ebert anyway, without Mankiewicz's permatan.

My favorite of the older clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icz8Yo14KZA

why the hate for this guy? not because he's so amazingly fat i hope? because it's probably some gland thing.

If you mean Knowles, it's because he's a fucking idiot.

Also his glands are fucked up.

Siskel is kind of right.

Tony Montana is plenty interesting. I don't think that's the problem with the movie.

Haha, I love listening to them slamming Mickey's Christmas Carol.

I agree it's not the only problem with the movie.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxJ8GN29qA&feature=related

I wish Ebert were my dad.

Glenn Kenny on the hiring of Scott and Phillips:

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2009/08/when-good-things-happen-to-good-film-critics.html

oh god, I didn't know Ben and Jeffrey were related.

Totally OTM about Phillips' writing, which is far less interesting than his on-air banter with Roeper (he made Roeper look like Chris Klein).

TMNT
Ebert:'why would a pizza company want to advertise that it's the pizza preferred by turtles that live in sewers?'

TMNT2
Ebert:'i think there is something going on with these turtles that is telling us something alarming about our society'

Carnosaur

Siskel:'the master plan is - she's thought this through very carefully - she wants to impregnate all the women with dinosaur eggs and destroy the women so they'll die in childbirth, thus eliminating the ability of the human race to keep conceiving.'
Ebert: 'well that explains one of the key lines in the movie which is 'half of the species will be exterminated' and then i'm thinking, in another generation the other half will go because there won't be anybody to give birth to them.'
Siskel: 'the movie makes real good sense!'

Christ, http://www.youtube.com/user/DistinguishedFlyer has over 300 of these...

Scott and Phillips, ready to go:

http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/index.html

http://blogs.vocalo.org/feder/2009/11/rich-gets-richer-roeper-to-review-movies-again/9405

"I'm so excited about this new project," Roeper said Monday. "As much as I loved doing 'Ebert & Roeper,' this will have much more of an unfiltered, uncut, viral feel. As someone at Starz put it, they wanted 'Roeper uncut.' If a film is a piece of shit, I'll say it's a piece of shit. I love the idea of seeing the movie and turning around immediately and telling you what I think about it in a conversational manner. In some cases I'll be recording reviews right there on the street as I'm exiting the theater or the screening room."

Was looking up Ebert's review of The Boys from Brazil and found this episode instead:

http://siskelandebert.org/video/9BWNUOOS4KY9/Death-on-the-Nile-The-Boys-of-Brazil-Interiors-1978

Pretty interesting...That's more or less the moment where the big '70s directors start to go south, but Ebert at least marches right along--loves Interiors, loves A Wedding. They've got the first episode posted there too:

http://siskelandebert.org/video/GWHWHKY3W9R7/Opening-SoonOne-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest

Also in that clip:
Dogs of the Week - Piranha and Up in Smoke

Interiors and A Wedding are great movies though. Only people expected every Allen or Altman film to be Annie Hall or Nashville would be down on those two.

Also as been said elsewhere eighties Woody >>> seventies Woody. Altman obviously less true for but he had good moments (and wretched ones) in both decades.

Interiors and A Wedding are great movies though. Only people expected every Allen or Altman film to be Annie Hall or Nashville would be down on those two.

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more like Gay Wedding... haha http://i.imgur.com/xnbty.gif

I think it's very possible to not think much of Interiors or A Wedding without holding them to the standard of Annie Hall or Nashville.

Honestly did not know until now that A Wedding had such a poor reputation. I'd never thought that it was to Nashville what Interiors was to Annie Hall in any case.

Interiors is awesome if you watch it as a comedy.

Lines like "When he comes back, I hope you'll corroborate the state of my wellbeing." Also: Sam Waterston as a Maoist!

I'd have to start checking a bunch of prominent critics, but my general recollection is that a) Interiors was initially acclaimed by a number of critics, but that Kael, Kauffmann, and Simon ridiculed it to varying degrees, and that b) A Wedding drew mostly mixed reviews--nothing like the abuse heaped on Quintet a year later, but not especially good, either. Myself, as I posted on one of the Altman threads, I thought it was pretty good when I watched it for the first time a few months ago, but only in the context of having no expectations--think I would have been disappointed in 1978. Haven't seen Interiors since it came out. Anyway, Ebert's enthusiasm for both films surprised me.

If you ever wondered how At the Movies worked... Ignatiy V tells

http://www.avclub.com/article/i-killed-movies-206668

Great concluding LOL from Siskel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbQDC61jrI

lol

the verses of "there are no cats in america" are not too good and indeed full of we-a had-no provalon-e kinda stuff, but the staging and chorus are a pretty devastating ironic joke (or at least they become one as soon as it's clear america actually teems with cats) that sets you up for adulthood better than disney songs do, and i disagree that it is a mistake to use cats to broadly represent persecuting classes everywhere after opening in a specifically russian jewish setting; also that kids will need any more exposition on cossacks in full pogrom than they do on imperial stormtroopers. what are they gonna be confused about, who to root for?

also that kids will need any more exposition on cossacks in full pogrom than they do on imperial stormtroopers. what are they gonna be confused about, who to root for?

Great--hell, an essential--point. Just going off of my own memory, though, I do remember thinking that the movie was a drag when my parents took us to see it, just as I always thought that "Somewhere Out There" was drivel, whether in Fievel or in Rondstadt/Ingram form.

My sister was obsessed with the soundtrack. We used to entertain my grandmother and great grandmother with lipsynced versions of "Somewhere Out There," with yours truly sliding in and playing the guitar solo.

You can watch old shows here: http://siskelandebert.org/

i remember the pogrom scene as being legit terrifying as a kid

hadn't seen this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMmtmy1KjhI

a whole show about how awful colorization is! really been on my mind this crap as i thought surely it had died a death, but the sodding Ron Howard Beatles movie is full of it

http://siskelandebert.org/video/AH4MXGWKMRGH/Colorizing-Hollywood8217s-New-Vandalism-1986

Meaning Howard used footage that had been colorized, or he had footage colorized for the film? Not that either is good, but you know, the difference between being merely idiotic and actually unacceptable.

Howard had footage colorized for the film. It looks worse, lazier, and lower-tech than any colorization done in the '80s, and it's totally distracting and stupid.

i couldn't say if this was worse than those movies in the 80s or if somehow it just seemed worse because of how familiar the footage was to start with. like the Idlewild press conference! really looked bad yeah. man, talk about a technology that hasn't developed..

You can watch old shows here: http://siskelandebert.org/

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 18, 2016 8:12 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not anymore you can’t, apparently. :((((

looks like siskelebert.org has some

One of their funniest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGHlZM8CJAo

I had to look up that Buddha:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EJ59U9bUlQw/S2idPh3UlxI/AAAAAAAAAKk/X14u8Wezgo4/s1600/vlcsnap-44717.png

David Lynch;

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3gEVyuUwAAEvpJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Gltc6Ez.jpg

:D

This is pretty funny/sad:

"Roeper was suspended from the Sun-Times on January 29, 2018, pending an investigation into allegations that he had purchased Twitter followers. On February 2, the Sun-Times released a statement stating that their investigation did find that Roeper purchased over 25,000 fake followers. He was reinstated by the paper, though he was required to begin using a new account on which he was explicitly disallowed from buying followers."

that shoulda been the cover for the new Kino blu-ray

Oh man. There have been surprisingly/suspiciously few people outed on that score. Typically as with so many things it seems that people a few rungs down the fame ladder get it in the neck. No way half of these pop stars with 7Million followers are all legit.

xp ha yeah i'm surprised it's not a better known bit of Lynch lore.

On young critics' mistakes and... political correctness in the '90s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=514&v=__L9DzZIkwI&feature=emb_logo