Roger Ebert

When we started out film society each of the committee members took on a different responsibility.  Our treasurer is an accountant and we have two techies who can set up he projector and sound system in what looks like a couple of minutes.

This did not leave much foe me to do.  Initially I took on responsibility for the bar and ensured we have sufficient stocks for our screenings - in terms of profitability we are a wine club that screens films.  However we also realised that we needed to provide information on our films to our customers, and so I took on responsibility for producing film notes. 

As a lifelong reader of The Guardian and The Observer I always read the reviews by Peter Bradshaw and Philip French, but as I started googling for information about some of our more obscure films I started finding more and more references to Roger Ebert and his reviews.  Soon he became a regular source of material, and it was always a pleasure to read both his blog and his reviews of just about any film, not just the next one that we were due to screen.

I knew he had been ill, but his sudden death was a real shock.  The following website is a fitting tribute to his brilliant life and career:
 
http://www.rogerebert.com/memoriam