Ebert part of this year’s festival

The 2003 Wisconsin Film Festival will feature a special appearance by film critic Roger Ebert, who will present the classic “A Hard Day’s Night,” Friday, March 28, and participate in a question session after the film “Better Luck Tomorrow” with filmmaker Justin Lin, on Thursday, March 29.

Ebert became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967 and won the Pulitzer Prize for film criticism in 1975 when he began a long association with Gene Siskel on the television program “Siskel & Ebert.” After Siskel’s death in 1999, the program continued as “Ebert & Roeper” with Richard Roeper.

Ebert has been a lecturer on film in the University of Chicago’s Fine Arts Program since 1969 and is an adjunct professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Illinois. In 1999, he started the Overlooked Film Festival at his alma mater, the University of Illinois. His reviews are collected in the annual “Movie Yearbook,” and he has published a dozen other books, including the recent collection, “The Great Movies.”

“A Hard Day’s Night’ (1964)
The Beatles energize Richard Lester’s original and irreverent rock ‘n’ roll classic. “One of the great landmarks of the movies!” — Roger Ebert.

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“Better Luck Tomorrow’
In his solo directorial debut, writer/director Justin Lin appears in person Saturday, March 29, to present a shocking, electrifying glimpse into the lives of suburban, Asian-American high school students. (Wisconsin premiere)