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Ebertfest 2014: Day 2
I woke up today after less than 4 hours of sleep, which would be par for the course if you choose to cover all of Ebertfest on a daily basis. Yesterday ended the same way it started, as Carol Iwata, Roger and Chaz Ebert's personal assistant for God knows how l...
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Ebertfest 2014: Day 1
The day began with me setting out to rent a car. Usually the festival assigns each guest a host to help them get around for screenings, but this time I wanted to explore Champaign-Urbana with as much freedom as possible; to get to know Roger Ebert's hometown m...
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The Eve Before Ebertfest 2014
It was four years ago when this journey started, when Roger Ebert called me up to be part of his family at Ebertfest. It seemed only yesterday when he gave me an embrace, patted his heart and smiled with his eyes. The sudden rush of familiar sights, scents and...
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Goodbye Ebertfest: It All Starts With The Golden Thumb
Note: Since the past few days have been a hectic mess, the following post discusses Saturday and Sunday at the 15th annual Ebertfest.
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Roger Ebert’s affinity for nuanced, daring, and compassionate cinema has perhaps never been more apparent than in this yea...
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Dispatch From Day Three at Ebertfest: Two Filmmakers, Two Tales of Addiction, and Two Invaluable Souls
Yesterday at Ebertfest was a day of twos.
It began with young filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen whose short film To Music, about a trio of musicians who work out their issues through art, screened before Paul Cox’s Vincent on Thursday. They were g...
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Ebertfest: A Discussion with To Music Filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen
This morning Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen were kind enough to sit down and discuss their short film that played at Ebertfest yesterday, To Music. You can read my thoughts about the short here. Below is the transcribed discussion we had this morning.
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Dispatch From Ebertfest: A Sweet Short, In the Family, Van Gogh, Linklater, and the Eternal Voice of Roger
There’s heavy rain in Champaign on the second day of the 15th Annual Ebertfest, which begins with a line wrapping half around the block for Paul Cox’s 1987 documentary Vincent, chronicling the life and times of the post-impressionistic artist Vincent Van Gogh....
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Ebertfest Lineup Released: Days of Heaven, Van Gogh, The Spectacular Now, Richard Linklater, and More
After months of anticipation, the lineup for Roger Ebert's 15th annual film festival Ebertfest has been released.
Once again, Roger's affinity for highlighting independent cinema shines through this year's group of movies. Crafting a well-balanced lineup is...
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