The Toronto International Film Festival released a statement today regarding the passing of film critic and famed journalist Roger Ebert, who lost his battle with Cancer today at the age of 70.
Roger Ebert
Film journalism has lost a great today with the passing of journalist, author and movie critic, Roger Ebert. He was a legend, and for anyone who loved film, Ebert was an inspiration. For those of us who aspired to write about film, he was nothing short of a demi-god.
It seems very strange to me that Roger Ebert isn’t attending the film festival this year. Every other year I’ve attended I’ve run into him somewhere, and even had a…