October 10, 2013

James Gray at CIFF

By michaelgloversmith

In Chicago to present The Immigrant on the opening night of the Chicago International Film Festival, James Gray gave a humorous, self-effacing introduction in which he paid tribute to both the Second City and Roger Ebert. Here is his speech in full:

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 10th, 2013 at 11:50 pm and tagged with James Gray, The Immigrant and posted in Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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3 responses to “James Gray at CIFF”

• John Charet
  October 11th, 2013 at 6:56 pm

  Great video:) I love it that James Gray loves Chicago:) I also love the talk about his family life concerning his decision to go into filmmaking and his father’s view that the only to know If it is any good is by watching Siskel and Ebert. Though Siskel liked “Little Odessa” Ebert gave it the thumbs down. Although I think James Gray will be flattered to know that Ebert has given positive notices to his last three films (The Yards, We Own the Night, and Two Lovers). He gave that last one 3.5 out of 4.

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  • michaelgloversmith
    October 12th, 2013 at 11:17 am

    I love that he compared the Chicago Theater to Versailles. It’s also interesting that he agrees with Ebert’s Little Odessa review in hindsight.

    My top 5 James Gray films:

    5. Little Odessa
    4. The Yards
    3. We Own the Night
    2. Two Lovers
    1. The Immigrant

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• John Charet
  October 11th, 2013 at 6:58 pm

  Recently on my site http://www.cinematiccoffee.com I have posted a new entry entitled “My Favorite F.W. Murnau Films” (Final Revision). Here is the link below:)

  http://cinematiccoffee.com/2013/10/11/my-favorite-f-w-murnau-films-final-revision/

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