![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Skepticism crumbles in the face of so moving a story so beautifully told, the kind of movie Roger Ebert would likely have loved. It helped make the film of Life Itself genuinely worthy of the title, and genuinely worth seeing. Ironically or not, that broadened the film’s horizons-and in ways that probably would have pleased Ebert greatly. James’s film was originally intended to be a straightforward adaptation of that book, but Ebert passed away in 2013, just one month into shooting. The best-known film critic in history was nothing if not prolific, churning out hundreds of reviews for print, television, and the Internet, as well as two dozen books on subjects that included not only movies but also computers and rice cookers-capped by his startlingly unguarded autobiography, Life Itself, in 2011. One challenge facing documentary filmmaker Steve James as he prepared his movie on the life of Roger Ebert is that so much was already known about, and so much had been heard from, the famous subject. ![]()
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