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Roger Ebert has died, but the art form he loved is very much alive. We honor him not so much by remembering his reviews of North but rather his and Gene Siskel’s raves for Do The Right Thing during a time when pundits were sure that Spike Lee’s drama would cause race riots. We honor him by remembering his essays and his and Gene Siskel’s relentless championing of Hoop Dreams. We honor him by remembering what films and what filmmakers we never would have discovered at a young age had Ebert (and yes Siskel) not introduced us to them. If the film critic has any kind of noble purpose, it is to shine a light on the good and the unexpectedly great in film. No one gets into film criticism because they hate movies. We got into this because we love the cinema and we love the »
- Scott Mendelson
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