Roger Ebert, the only film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and part of the television film review team, Siskel and Ebert, will appear at Utah State University Friday, Feb. 3.
The film critic will make a presentation titled "A Contemporary Look at American Film" at 1:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center. The event, sponsored by the associated students of Utah State, is free and open to the public.Since 1967, Ebert has been the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1975 for his work there. His reviews, interviews and essays for the Sun-Times are distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. Additionally, he serves as film critic for WLS-TV, the Capital Cities/ABC owned station for Chicago, as well as the New York Daily News.
Ebert and the Chicago Tribune's Gene Siskel have worked together on television since 1976 and have been described as the nation's most influential film critics.