Hello everybody welcome to another bald move prestige movie.

Today we're talking about the

biographical documentary I think is what you call it. Life itself was released in 2014. It celebrates the life of Roger Ebert

who died around 10 years ago on April 4th, 2013. This movie was produced, directed, assembled by Steve James. He's the director of Hoop Dreams among others. He's the ones that Ebert's spotlight early on kind of transform his career.

It's based on Roger Ebert's memoir entitled,

also Life itself.

Jim, I don't know if you've seen this movie before.

I was hoping that maybe you could talk about

what your relationship was with Roger Ebert growing. I was

with Roger Ebert growing up and as a young man and what you thought of the movie and

we'll go from there.

Yeah, I have seen this once before. I watched it, oh, maybe five years ago. Definitely not contemporary with when it was released pretty close and I remember liking the documentary quite a bit and

second time around I still like it quite a bit it's an insight into a guy who you know obviously I only had a relationship with on screen

didn't read a lot of newspapers back when he was writing because A I wasn't alive at the beginning and B, I wasn't reading newspapers as a baby.

But boy, yeah, when he was on television first with Siskill and then with Richard Roper. I was I became very familiar

with his criticism and I really liked it, although I didn't always appreciate it for what it was.

I would say in the last 10 years I've come to a much greater appreciation, like doing this myself essentially and maybe we can talk about that

weird wrinkle later on but doing doing this has given me a greater appreciation for what he

actually did and it's not just telling you which movies are good and bad.

And this documentary kind of gets to the heart of that. I think it shows that the man is not perfect. He's maybe even kind of an

asshole at times, but he carried himself especially later in life with a great sense of empathy and I think that really comes through in his

Criticism and it's it's the thing that I have come to appreciate about him

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