Spike Lee: critics said Do the Right Thing would ‘incite riots’
Speaking at the Toronto film festival, where he was accepting an award, the auteur recalled the press response to his 1989 film
October 2019
Soderbergh on Hollywood: 'It's not crooked – it's the most transparent industry going'
Steven Soderbergh’s latest film is about dodgy dealings in the financial world but in film-making corruption is not endemic, he says, because everyone is accountable
February 2017
First look review
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life review – a poignant portrait of a beloved cinephile
Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and more salute Stratton in a film that fuses the critic’s surprisingly dramatic life with an Australian cinematic retrospective
September 2015
Josh Gad to play Roger Ebert in comedy about making of Russ Meyer sex satire
Frozen star to play revered film critic in story of debauched creation of cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
April 2015
The crush
Crush of the week: Roger Ebert
‘If another man has written about culture, or life in general, in a more human way over the past 40 years, I have not read him’
February 2015
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
DVDs and downloads: Fury, Serena, Effie Gray, Blackwood, Life Itself, Virunga and more
With David Ayer’s Fury and a profile of film critic Roger Ebert, the best of this week’s DVDs could have been Oscar contenders
November 2014
Life Itself review – a delightful tribute to US film critic Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert: the man who revolutionised movie criticism gets his own film
Life Itself review – documentary tribute to film critic Roger Ebert
The real Roger Ebert revealed, ‘warts, waistline and all’
August 2014
Will Ferrell slated to play Russ Meyer in Russ and Roger Go Beyond
Anchorman star keen to appear in film about soft-core porn director Meyer's collaboration with Roger Ebert on 1970's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
June 2014
Weekend web special
Web immortality: the social media sites that keep you alive in the digital world
Do you want to stay alive in the digital world after you die in the real one? Jenny Kleeman meets the people planning to postpone their last post
April 2014
Statue commemorating thumbs-up film critic Roger Ebert unveiled
A bronze figure of the late critic – with a cinema seat on either side of him – goes on show at the Ebertfest film festival venue, writes Ben Child
March 2014
Roger Ebert: Academy pays tribute at 2014 Oscars
Acclaimed film critic remembered at the Oscars the year after his death
April 2013
Roger Ebert: film luminaries pay tribute
Mike Leigh on Roger Ebert: 'His analysis of my films was consistently profound'
Roger Ebert's funeral targeted by Westboro Baptist church
Bigas Luna obituary
Film blog
Roger Ebert: share your favourite quotes
Roger Ebert dies at 70: 'Roger was the movies,' says Obama
