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1:30 Typical Gene had to take a jab at the Pulitzer prize winner smh that's why I love these guys I would do same, they talk so well together it's so honest that's how the world should be

My old teachers told me to never, ever start an essay with "since the beginning of time"

This didn't work well.

Very talented guy, a real cinema lover 🙂👌♥️

Does anyone know where to find the full interview?

I am an English major and I watch this every year as a reminder to stay true to myself in my writing. Two thumbs up!

I wanna watch this full segment!

"...(criticism) is not a science. You're not talking about the truth. You're not saying, 'This is what happened.' What you're saying is, 'This is what happened to me. This is how I feel.'" Dude, EVERY RUclips media critic needs to watch this video at some point. I've seen way too many people post reviews on movies or video games that come across as voiced Wikipedia articles.

what year is this from?

These two idiots spoiled half the movies they reviewed for audiences so what the hell does he know? 😂 They both had about 50% decent taste.

"A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man." - Robert Warshow Ebert often said this quote is the foundation of his approach to criticism.

Thank you for uploading this, and with such great quality, too. I’d somehow never seen it before.

I honestly used to get excited about films coming out just to read and watch Roger’s review of it.

Wonder if anyone was reading the paper, saw Gene's picture and then realized, "Oh, my God, he's right here on the bus! Better read his stuff now!"

So Gene was a film critic for 30 years and Roger 46.

This is gold

it becomes more true by the day now folks can be bought by corpos to write only positive reviews

Very insightful. Not that he missed his calling cause there was nothing at the time like Siskel & Ebert, but reviewing is such a totally subjective business. Sometimes you feel they’re on point. Sometimes you feel they’re way off. But, it seems he could’ve been an excellent interviewer & remembered for that

How I miss them!

I feel like more RUclips reviewers and critics should watch this especially in today age when we have internet toxic discourse

Gene has been gone 25 years and Roger 10...crazy how fast time has passed...

Gene and Rog are 1 and 1a the GOAT reviewers. The way they interacted and debated with each other will never be matched.

Since i was s kid i loved watching Siskel and Ebert because they gave a shit, i mean they gave a shit, about film, about thought, about writing and watching their respect for each other grow over the years was beautiful.

They get knocked so often as being 'TV critics' and simple reviewers, it's wonderful to be reminded that they were at the top of the field of film criticism, with Ebert even having won a Pulitzer Prize for his interviews.

If he had said this 5 years later, he would have brought up how one step worse than the hotel interviews, are the hotel interviews with the publicist in the room. Who would basically be dictating the talking points. Not many stars were comfortable without them, and many others were not permitted to have the unscripted type of interviews Roger did so well.

Does anybody have the full interview? I would love to see the rest!

I watched his Friday the 13th reviews - I know he didn’t live by this

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Was anyone else in the room when this was filmed?

Lol. Utter stupidity. Total. ‘Write what you want. You won’t be destroyed’. That’s the whole point of political correctness! Unless there were consequences, no one would subscribe to what is politically correct. The consequences are what make it something that is politically correct. Speaking of that. Never has anyone seen such a rise of pure hypocrisy.

Briliant! And what a defense of the interrelationship between writing and reading!

Love Professor Johnson's enthusiasm and passion about literary writing and readers. An inspiration.

For once critics admit it is subjective. Some critics carry on like their opinion is objective fact.

4:50 "Political Correctness is the Fascism of the 90's" -Roger Ebert ... And still is today.

I miss these two. They would have never given in to the manipulation that most of Rotten Tomatoes did.

I remember when I was a kid Roger Ebert hated every movie that was my favorite. Siskel was my dude

3:57 when was this? How is he saying this so long ago?

Siskel wot a daft old fart

This is an incredibly important clip to have in circulation. Not only is it bewilderingly prophetic but it’s just damn good advice from two of the best.

I miss these guys; not only are the movies less interesting these days, but hearing the reviews is a lot less interesting since they departed the scene. There's one instance I can think of when they didn't take their own advice, and did just follow the crowd of critics, when they gave glowing reviews to "The Last Temptation of Christ" in 1988.

As great and as prescient as these two were, I'm not sure this is good advice for the 2020s. Saying what you honestly think & feel nowadays feels like a recipe for getting yourself cancelled.

I mis these guys.

All I want to say is that I wish Ebert and Siskel had taught my English writing courses in high school instead of what I got -- insisting on 3rd person, dry bones, "scientific" book reports, instead of encouraging the kind of personal, passionate tone that these pros knew was the true way of the art of criticism.

This is really such a wonderful bit of intellectual conversation between two guys I really respected. Shame we never get to see this kind of thing on TV any more

What episode is this?

I love these little tips from them. Also, he's so right about this topic, Carrie down (that's carpe Diem in autocorrect🤣)

People watching video essays as entertainment nowadays seems less odd when Ebert put it that way

In grade school & high school in California they advise to not make it about you. Credit stealing sons of bitches the system is.