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“ ”Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature.
About Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (18 June 1942 – 4 April 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. He was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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Additional quotes by Roger Ebert
You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.
It is commonplace to say that silent films are more “dreamlike,” but what does that mean? In Nosferatu, it means that the characters are confronted with alarming images and denied the freedom to talk them away. There is no repartee in nightmares. Human speech dissipates the shadows and makes a room seem normal. Those things that live only at night do not need to talk, for their victims are asleep, waiting.
Fate is not merely knocking on the door, it has entered with a SWAT team and is banging their heads together and administering poppers.