![]() ![]() ![]() “When Roger is trying to make peace with dying, he says to Chaz, ‘I’ve had a great life.’ And, boy, did that apply.”Įven though Ebert participated in the filming, he was adamant that James be given final cut over the film. He didn’t know where it would take him, but he was along for the ride. As he says in the, he viewed his life as a movie that was ever unfolding. “And, most profoundly, it’s about his love affair with Chaz. ![]() “But it’s also about his love affair with Chicago and his tortured love affair with Gene Siskel. “I think it’s about Roger’s love affair with movies,” notes the filmmaker. James thinks of “Life Itself” as a love story on several different levels. Moving back and forth in time, just as Ebert’s book does, “Life Itself” chronicles Ebert’s early years at the Sun-Times, his tenure as a screenwriter for B-movie king Russ Mayer, his complicated relationship with Siskel and his advocacy of filmmakers as diverse as Martin Scorsese and Errol Morris (“Fog of War”). When he was X-rayed, doctors discovered that his cancer had spread to his spine. The documentary began filming in December 2012, just as Ebert’s wife Chaz had taken him to a Chicago rehab hospital for a hairline hip fracture. ![]()
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