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“I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.”

Quote by Roger Ebert

Book:Your Movie Sucks

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Your Movie Sucks

This book delves into the world of cinema, analyzing the factors that contribute to the creation of poorly received films. It explores the roles of directors, producers, and audiences in shaping the success or failure of a movie. more

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Roger Ebert was a renowned American film critic, born on June 18, 1942, and passed away on April 4, 2013. Known for his unique style of film criticism and profound insights into the art of cinema, he served as a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and founded the influential film review website RogerEbert.com. more

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“To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006