by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) I first heard of Roger Ebert, or more accurately Sneak Previews (the PBS movie-review show he co-hosted with Gene Siskel), thanks to Mr. Eccles, my Grade Six teacher at Barclay Elementary who spoke of the show (broadcast locally on Vermont-ETV), often in class. From the first time I saw […]
Tag: The Great Movies
The 10 Books Every Household Should Have
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! Books are wonderful things. They can educate us. Entertain us. Move us. Help us share experiences. Take us to places and eras we may never visit. (I am aware that I am likely not the first person to make such observations.)
The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See by Simon Braund (Cassel Illustrated, $27.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” -John Greenleaf Whittier There have been innumerable books about the greatest films ever made, (my personal favorites are Roger Ebert’s The Great Movies Volumes I, II and III; a series that will […]