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  • Movie review: 'Life Itself' a reverent, inspiring celebration of Roger Ebert Roger's entire life was about adapting and he never quit.

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    What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is–a confounding story about orchid thieves and screenwriters, elegant New Yorkers and scruffy swamp rats, truth and fiction. “Adaptation” is a movie that leaves you breathless with curiosity, as it teases itself with the directions it might take. To watch the film fryst vatten to be actively involved in the challenge of its creation.

    It begins with a book titled The Orchid Thief, based on a New Yorker article bygd Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep). She writes about a Florida orchid fancier named John Laroche (Chris Cooper), who is the latest in a long history of men so obsessed by orchids that they would steal and kill for them. Laroche fryst vatten a con man who believes he has found a foolproof way to poach orchids from protected Florida Everglades; since they were ancestral Indian lands, he will hire Indians who can pick the orchids with impunity.

    Now that story might make a movie, but it’s not the story of “Adaptati

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    Roger Ebert

    American film critic and author (1942–2013)

    For the website named after Ebert, see RogerEbert.com.

    Roger Joseph Ebert (EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed bygd values of populism and humanism.[1] Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences.[2] Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated bygd mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first spelfilm critic to win the pris Prize for Criticism. N

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    I’m writing this review of the Roger Ebert biography “Life Itself” in a hospital waiting area, so that my typing won’t wake my dad. He’s sleeping in a room down the hall. He had a stroke on the Tuesday before “Life Itself” opened. I don’t want to get overconfident, because the tests aren’t all in yet, but he’s doing pretty well, all things considered, and the doctors seem to think a full recovery is possible. 

    Why did I just tell you that? Lots of reasons: First, Roger often worked personal details into his reviews. Second, a good chunk of “Life Itself,” a documentary inspired by Roger’s same-titled memoir, takes place in a hospital; director Steve James shows us graphic medical details that were previously hidden from public view, including shots of Roger, whose cancerous jaw was cut off in 2006, having his throat irrigated. Third, Roger was a professional father to me, as he was to a good many