Best movies 1997 roger ebert biography

She has a strong affection for her father, a local doctor—and is jealous when he seems to favor her older sister.

A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Eve's Bayou (), The Sweet Hereafter (), Boogie Nights (), Maborosi () and Jackie Brown ().

The doctor Samuel L. Jackson is also a womanizer, and when Eve sees him with a local woman, all sorts of half-understood emotions come churning into her heart. It takes us into a realm of poetry and dreams, and shows us how deceptive memory can be. Fourteen children are killed in a school bus accident, and a lawyer Ian Holm arrives to interview possible clients for a class-action suit.

Some of them have secrets that the accident will betray. Burt Reynolds , in one of his best performances, plays a pornmaker who discovers a kid Mark Wahlberg in a nightclub, and makes him into an X-rated star. There was no more beautiful film this year. Makiko Esumi , a fashion model with a quiet grace and introspection, played a woman who loses her husband, raises their baby until he is a small boy, and then marries again—to a man who lives in an isolated fishing village.

Roger Ebert (), an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

Ignoring all the conventional ways in which this story could unfold, the movie is about how the woman adjusts to her new life, while she continues to mourn her old one. How and why, exactly, did her young husband, who was so happy with her and their baby, die? She does not know. The director, Hirokazu Kore-Eda , films sequence after sequence with such a sure eye for light and composition that your eyes drink in the screen.

His camera is tactful; he tells us what we need to know about this woman, and lets us intuit the rest, in long, silent passages in which she goes about her daily life, or cares for the child, or learns to know her new husband, or simply sits and thinks. The best films in were sad.