Roger Ebert interview on Martin Scorsese and the Best Movies (2002)

"I think I'm the hero."

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Not very Donner.

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Charlie Rose is not a smart man,

20 years ago - and a completely different world. Roger noting the theme of "Minority Report" and how "we might lose our privacy." Movies as an American art form, understood by many, and people going to actual theaters to see them as they should be seen. We've lost that. This was before social media completely devoured us. Before people stared into phones. When conversations like this, before Charlie Rose was "cancelled," were a nightly affair that you looked forward to: actual conversation. The fragmentation of our spirits and minds is the story today. And it's deeply troubling.

"Let me just interrupt for a minute--"
That could be Charlie's epitaph.

Roger, we miss you. Now you're getting the early previews before anyone else. RIP.

Lol, 20 years later and we REALLY don't have any privacy anymore!

Creepy Rose trying to downplay Polanski’s disgusting crime. Why am I not surprised

Excellent interview

I hated The Hours.

Charlie Rose not being familiar with why Roman Polanski can't come to the US. How surprising...

The image of Ebert in a theatre laughing his arse off during Jackass is priceless.

This interrupter was annoying.

our film culture used to be so sophisticated

2002 was a great year for movies.

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What a great interview; just honest, curious questions and a couple of really enlightening points.

I miss Roger Ebert.

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great conversation, thanks for the upload!

Funny that they mentioned The Hours as I just saw the 2022 stage play featured on the PBS NewsHour today.

Interesting that Ebert mentioned Bowling for Columbine as it would go on to win an Academy Award. Michael Moore would be simultaneously cheered and booed by the audience for his comments about our "fictitious war." One person standing up for the truth couldn't stop a war. He would then go on to make the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Sadly, gun violence, mass shootings (more than 1 a day in 2023), and school shootings are still a thing, helped because the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 was overturned (allowed to expire) in 2004.

I'd heard Ebert say before that Scorsese made the film of three decades with Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980) and Goodfellas(1990). But I think George Lucas made the film of a generation: Star Wars and the best sequel of all time (at least until Avengers: Endgame), The Empire Strikes Back.

This is a fascinating interview, but characterizing Polanski's rape of a child as "relations with a young woman" has uh...not aged well!

Charlie Rose was too pretentious and loved to hear himself talk too much to be a really good interviewer. Not surprised what happened to him. Roger Ebert, on the other hand, went from being, the first year of Siskel and Ebert, an awkward guy in front of the camera, to being one of the best, most engaging film critics ever.

2002 was a pretty good year but '99, '00 and '01 were all better and not slow years for films by any means Roger.

Nice that he mentioned Pulp Fiction as one of the best films ever maded!

He would have never believed how long it took for Scorsese to win Best Director if you told him during this interview.

Before the world ended.

I need to give Adaptation another look.

Roger put Hoop Dreams and Pulp Fiction higher than Goodfellas on his list of the best films of the 90s.

Totally disagree with all of Ebert's opinions. Goodfellas was horrible, as an example. He doesn't even mention The English Patient, far and away the best movie of recent years.

I love how the interview is just a series of, "have you seen this?" Like so many relatable chats with regular folks.

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maybe i should watch raging bull

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Ebert was a great writer, not just a great movie critic.

Roger had hundreds of favourite films, but these were in his top 20, or the ones he generally considered the greatest.

The General (Buster Keaton)

Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (John Huston)

The Third Man (Carol Reed)

Singin' In The Rain (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)

Tokyo Story (Yasujiiro Ozu)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

Floating Weeds (Yasujiiro Ozu)

La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)

Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)

2001 A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)

The Enigma of Kaspar Hausser (Werner Herzog)

Gates Of Heaven (Errol Morris)

Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

Hoop Dreams (Steve James)

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick)

The very limited knowledge the host had about movies kept distracting me throughout this video. He didn't know which decade Raging bull and Goodfellas came out?

Gosh, that's pathetic.

TV streaming the “art” of 21st century. Meh.

No way Charlie Rose is this clueless lol

As l sit here in 2024, l am surprised how many of these movies l still haven't seen. Always appreciate Roger Ebert, but he always overrated Scorsese.

Charlie Rose is so fucking annoying