"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986)TV-Serie 1986-????

Regisseur:

Don DuPree

Staffeln:

unbekannt

Premierendatum:

13. September 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Talkshow

Plot:

Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert rate new movies with a thumbs up, or a thumbs down.

Plot Keywords:

Video | Movie Review | Film Criticism | Film Critic | Film Discussion

Filmpreise:

Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys.

Nutzerkommentare:

Gene, you will be missed

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 19	7:00 PM	Fox
Sun. July 20	6:30 PM	Fox

Besetzung

Richard Roeper

...

Himself - Host / ... (77 Folgen, 2000-2008)

Alternativ:

Ebert & Roeper (International: English title) (new title)
Ebert & Roeper and the Movies (USA) (new title)
Roger Ebert & the Movies (USA) (new title)
Siskel & Ebert (USA) (new title)

Länge:

30 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.33 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Drehorte:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Firma:

Buena Vista Television

Dies und das:

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert did their last show together on 23 January 1999. On that show they reviewed: At First Sight (1999), Another Day in Paradise (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Playing by Heart (1998) and The Theory of Flight (1998).

Dialogzitate:

[last lines]
Richard Roeper: Until next week, the balcony is closed.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Godzilla (1998)

Gene, you will be missed

I write this two days after the death of co-host Gene Siskel, and somehow, it doesn't quite seem real yet. I've been watching the show religiously since 1990. In addition to getting to see clips from a movie, and being able to check my opinion next to two critics I respected, it also made good television. Gene was well-known as a basketball fan (the Chicago Bulls in particular), and watching the show was like watching a half-hour one-on-one game every week, though since the movies always changed, it rarely got boring, and while they probably agreed more than they disagreed, the creative tension between them was healthy and made for a dynamic show, considering it's just two guys talking about movies.

Although I probably agreed with Roger more, I identified with Gene more, because he always let you know where he stood, whereas Roger was more objective. And while some may have sniped about him and Roger making appearances on talk shows like Jay Leno and David Letterman, I always thought it was good that he understood that while movies were worth taking seriously, as well as writing about them, there was nothing wrong with having fun with yourself. I'm sure Gene would want people to still watch the show, so I will, but I will certainly miss him.