Life Itself, the Roger Ebert autobiography that we are reading for our August 3 discussion, gives a more in-depth and detailed look at the man behind the movie reviews, but the truth is that Roger Ebert has always tried to place himself squarely into his reviews, letting us know what he experienced and how he felt about the movie rather than objectively analyzing it. Below is a clip from what is possibly Ebert's most iconic review, part of a 1994 year-end review with Gene Siskel in which they both chose a movie called "North" as their worst movie of the year. It inspired the title of a later book that Ebert wrote. Unfortunately the only clip on YouTube was recorded on a VCR with a dirty recording head, so the quality isn't that great.
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