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...Since 1994 Roger has devoted two Sunday columns a month to reviews of Great Movies. In 2001, when he decided to collect 100 of these critiques into a book, he asked Mary, who had been running the Museum of Modern Art's Film Still Archive since 1968, to choose the photos for each film and write an essay about the glamour and preservation of movie stills. In early 2002, just as the book was to be published, Mary was abruptly laid off by the Museum in a move many saw as punishment for her very active role in a strike...
...longer in charge of a picture archive. It happens that, five years later, the Museum has reopened in much larger quarters, but its 4 million stills remain in cold storage in rural Pennsylvania, and Mary stills waits for both the Archive and her job to reopen. But Roger would probably agree with a quote from one of his favorite movies: that lost causes are the only ones worth fighting...
...ROGER WILL...
...Cannes that I noticed how Roger looks everywhere, beyond the screen, for signs of outrageous vitality. He loves characters who are larger than life, larger even than movie life. One such was Billy "Silver Dollar" Baxter, the Broadway producer who carried a sachel of dollars coins with him and would summon waiters at the Majestic Bar in Cannes with a shouted "Irving!" Another was, is, Dusty Cohl, the cowboy-hatted Canadian lawyer who helped found the Toronto Film Festival. Roger became close friends of Dusty and his wife Joan; and when they launched the Floating Film Festival (nonstop movies...
...Roger is a man with a tough hide. (And, according to my mother, a smooth one. She once stroked his face and said, "You have beautiful skin.") He's one of the few critics who can take it more than he can dish it out, as I know firsthand. In 1990, for Film Comment, I wrote a piece called "All Thumbs," about what I saw as the devolution of film criticism, and cited the Siskel-Ebert TV show (not their other writing) as an example of movie reviewing being reduced to opinion. In the next issue, Roger responded to these...