Roger Ebert on Palme d'Or Winners

Roger Ebert reacts to films that have won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, including The Conversation (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), All That Jazz (1980), Kagemusha (1980), Paris, Texas (1984), Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Wild At Heart (1990), Farewell My Concubine (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Secrets & Lies (1996), Rosetta (1999), and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).
Source: At the Movies

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[@mikeyjonesgoesboom]

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[@leafyconcern]

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[@djarcadian]

I miss Roger Ebert. Even when I disagreed with him I respected him.

[@Simon-yp7rv]

Except for the Friday the 13th stunt

[@tccandler]

An adult having adult conversations about adult-aimed films... Unfathomably refreshing in the era of young critics reviewing a relentless slew of kids movies.

[@zetetick395]

I love how Roger enjoyed B pictures and Creature Features etc AS WELL as real grown-up cinema greatness! They just celebrated MOVIES, all movies!

[@spenserdavis788]

Never again has a critic existed that speaks with such pure love of, and intelligence about, honest to God cinema - and yet somehow keeps his reviews accessible to mainstream audiences. Even when he backs something like "Crash," his reviews are so clear that you *almost* start to see what he's getting at.

[@GoodOlCharlieBrown]

God I use to look forward to Ebert and Roeper every week. 6:30 PM, ABC, Sunday nights… The best half hour of television for me every single week. I was a bit too young to appreciate the days of Gene Siskel, but Ebert was there to cultivate my love of film. Deeply, deeply missed…

[@azohundred1353]

To me, Roger Ebert never seemed snobby, as his detractors even today usually make him out to be(mostly because he didn't like a favorite movie of theirs), but he seemed like a genuine movie fan that would put every film he watches in proportion to the genre. For example, he would never knock a movie because it isn't on the level of a Kurosawa or Kubrick movie, but he would knock it if he thought it didn't achieve the task it was trying to do. He even liked some movies that could be classified as "schlock" and he disliked others. I feel like some people get the wrong impression from reading clickbait headlines about negative reviews he made decades ago about some movies now considered Classics, without ever actually reading it or listening to his show. With that being said, many times I have disagreed with Ebert and many times I've agreed, but at the end of the day, it's always great to hear other perspectives on films, especially when it's coming from someone as passionate about the subject as Ebert was.

[@bluemooninthedaylight8073]

I agree to a point, but what I found annoying with him was how he would play the white knight for actors or the movie audience. His bizarre over-reaction of Rossellini's performance in Blue Velvet is a bit much. He treats a grown woman as though she's some naïve young girl who didn't know what they were getting into. It's down right sexist when you think about it. I do miss Siskel and Ebert, though. Even if I didn't always agree with them, they at the very least had something interesting to say.

[@zetetick395]

Nice to see him standing up for Coppola's The Conversation (1974) 😸_👍 That _fantastic_ paranoid thriller just got _crushed_ between his first two Godfather pictures, and it's a DAMN shame! - Never seen Farewell my Concubine (1993) and Rosetta (1999) ....Gonna fix that right now!

[@j.c.o6333]

Brilliant compilation!

[@samiam7342]

My absolute favorite film critic of ALL time......even on the siskel and ebert show, Roger was the more lively and enthusiastic one.......r.i.p. - gone to soon.....

[@samhasanain4841]

It'd amazing how much Ebert turns into a full R when discussing David Lynch films.

[@alexvillarreal6039]

Ebert in later years really thought he was too hard on ALL THAT JAZZ. He said he unfairly compared it as a lesser Fellini film and came to appreciate it more.

[@MrUndersolo]

His "Book of Film" should be required reading for all film students.

[@ryebread7224]

I generally agree with Roger's takes. Not always.. but most of the time. It's hard to believe that Siskel didn't like Apocalypse Now, or that anyone who is a film critic wouldn't have liked Apocalypse Now..

[@Luxuryyacht92]

"This dialogue is fun to listen to" Perfect way to put a Tarantino film.

[@Dantegrey1]

I am not an American, so I didn't grow up with Roger Ebert. I like him though. I cannot, however, understand his incredible long standing misunderstanding of David Lynch.

[@PaulSch0]

Thank you!!!!

[@unimpressedalchemist]

Imagine Siskel and Ebert reviewing Titane

[@Zorklis]

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[@WilliamJames48]

He's so similar to Fred Willard in "For Your Consideration"

[@danwroy]

Now, the underrated Gene

[@unimpressedalchemist]

I wanted to hear Siskel too

[@dennisrodmanburner7348]

Like ebert as a guy but his reading of most of lynch’s films are just awful.

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

Keep it up

[@tectorgorch8698]

Always enjoy Ebert's ragging on David Lynch.

[@Nathan-gd7xq]

Always enjoy Lynch's fanboys throwing tantrums in the comments.

[@bb1111116]

There is a lot of Gene Siskel in this video.

[@ZzombieVvomit]

Save the Green Planet! (2003)

[@cassiecarpenter]

He’s dead wrong about Wild at Heart and David Lynch. There are only three films he didn’t write himself and this one happens to have a happy ending. No one was laughing after Sailor kills the assassin, sicko. It’s meant to be horrifying! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Never forget Ebert’s only foray in film was writing Beyond Valley of the Dolls.

[@CluelessCanadian12]

That was the only one I had a problem with too. I fucking love Wild at Heart, one of my favourite Lynch films.

[@plasticweapon]

it's meant to be funny, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[@StruggleoftheOutsider]

haha.. thats the first time I ever heard someone call wild at heart racist.. fuckin critics.

[@HG-pi3qp]

Ebert's takes on Lynch are somehow worse than his takes on The Brown Bunny

[@danwroy]

I love Ebert but his politics, especially his racial sensitivities, could absolutely wreck his better judgement.

[@DiotraxSecondlives]

Ebert truly doesn't understand anything of lynch. Not that there is anything to understand.

[@_thk]

5:13 Tucker Carlson

[@mctapoutos7426]

Ebert problem was that he was shilling for some director's like Coppola or Scorsesse but had problem with people like Carpenter

[@mrtunapie6653]

Thats nice, but quite frankly, I dont care what Ebert or any other pop film 'commentator' journalist thinks. When they write a script, grab a camera, make a film and have it liked by other film makers, than, I will respect their opinion.

[@petermoore7796]

he wrote beyond the valley of the dolls screenplay which is definitely a respected "cult" movie

[@bredfr1052]

⁠@@petermoore7796sorry but he didn’t grab a camera so his opinion is still invalid i’m afraid

[@petermoore7796]

@@bredfr1052 i understand where you are coming from- i happen to like that movie a lot and i think the script is a huge reason for that. there are plenty of modern "directors" whose opinion i value much less than roger's but of course you are correct, he doesn't have a massive filmography to back up his takes. i do think hes a relic of a era that no longer exists: one where taste-makers bring higher brow cinema to the masses and indirectly "raise the bar." i think the problem with the movie industry nowadays is not a lack of good directors but a lack of good audience memebers

[@bredfr1052]

@@petermoore7796 sorry i was definitely being sarcastic i agree with you 100%

[@petermoore7796]

lol now i feel silly for going all out. i do think youre right @@bredfr1052