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Opposable Thumbs

How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

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Opposable Thumbs

Auteur(s): Matt Singer
Narrateur(s): Matt Singer
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 Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.

You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”

On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune. Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the first ever awarded to a film critic—for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times. To say they despised each other was an understatement.

When they reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. No decision—from which films to cover to who would read the lead review to how to pronounce foreign titles—was made without conflict, but their often-antagonistic partnership (which later transformed into genuine friendship) made for great television. In the years that followed, their signature “Two thumbs up!” would become the most trusted critical brand in Hollywood.

In Opposable Thumbs, award-winning editor and film critic Matt Singer eavesdrops on their iconic balcony set, detailing their rise from making a few hundred dollars a week on local Chicago PBS to securing multimillion-dollar contracts for a syndicated series (a move that convinced a young local host named Oprah Winfrey to do the same). Their partnership was cut short when Gene Siskel passed away in February of 1999 after a battle with brain cancer that he’d kept secret from everyone outside his immediate family—including Roger Ebert, who never got to say goodbye to his longtime partner.But their influence on in the way we talk about (and think about) movies continues to this day.

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Matt Singer achieves a rare feat : bringing back to life two great icons of film criticism and beloved media personalities. Through his detailed research and selected excerpts, Singer manages to pay a lively tribute to two men who succeeded in democratizing film criticism but also cinema in many of its forms and genres. Listening to the author's excellent narration, I also found the enthusiasm one could have in following Siskel and Ebert during all these years both in writing and on television and, all the more, missing both of them. In short, and I can live with the cliché, two thumbs way up for this great book.

An engrossing book read brilliantly by it's author.

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