Siskel & Ebert Classics - 2/27/99 - Remembering Gene Siskel

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This is the episode that ran the weekend after Gene's passing. Obviously it's been uploaded many times before, but I wanted to put up my personal copy for posterity. Includes all original commercials (this is a Directv recording off KTLA in Los Angeles).
After this, the show was never the same for me, as I know it wasn't for many others, so I ended my weekly recordings shortly thereafter (frankly one of the reasons I am missing the later 97-99 years was that I taped over them years back. I never really thought about it then, but in hindsight, it was difficult to watch Gene's sickness and some of the shows where he participated by phone. It was remarkable to see him keep going but it was not the easiest thing to witness week to week).
Watching Gene and Roger every week took me from my very earliest memories of ever watching TV through to graduating from college and just a little bit before I met my wife. I feel both of them were a huge part of my life and these shows not only function today as a tribute to them, but also the movies themselves -- the marketplace of which was in a VERY different place back then (as these episodes attest...how wonderful it is to go back and discover some truly buried treasures in them!).
I do have a few more episodes to upload here and there but as you can tell, mostly we're reaching the end of the run of my own S&E archive. I thank all of you for joining me on this journey and I know, from reading the comments I've read over last the year or two, many of us miss both of them dearly -- which is why keeping these shows alive is so important (besides being so entertaining still to watch!).
As a reminder, if you're looking for the latest home video reviews -- from Blu-Rays of classic catalog titles to the latest releases -- be sure to check out my own review site at www.andyfilm.com

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@WordUnheard 11 ай бұрын

Gene died from the same brain tumor that I have. I was supposed to have died in 2020, but it will definitely be the end of me. Cancer killed Ebert as well. Words cannot express my hatred for cancer. I love movies, and these two were my movie gurus from when they were on PBS and their show was called Sneak Previews, all the way until their deaths. There are a lot of KZfaq movie reviewers, but no one will ever come close to matching the duo of Siskel and Ebert.

@Brubser_Jr_Reloaded 10 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry to hear that, I wish you the best. Take care of yourself.

@Victory-in-YAHUSHA 10 ай бұрын

I am truly sorry to hear that. YESHUA blessings to you, WordUnheard.

@em.1633 8 ай бұрын

Killed my dad's best friend, after which he was never the same, and then killed my dad. You don't deserve that. Cancer really does fucking suck.

@jlobiafra 8 ай бұрын

😢

@TheQueenofMaggots 6 ай бұрын

@@Victory-in-YAHUSHA No one wants you to force your bs on them when they are dying from cancer. If I stepped in you I would throw the boot away 💩

@michelletackett9489 2 жыл бұрын

When Gene died, I cried a lot. He and Roger meant a lot to me and I miss them both.

@pam0626 2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Siskel & Ebert were a part of my childhood & teenage years. They taught me how to “see” a film through their eyes.

@michelletackett9489 2 жыл бұрын

@@pam0626 Same. I couldn't wait for Saturday to watch them.

@speedyboris 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if I -cried-, but I was definitely in shock. It didn't seem real. It was probably one of the first times a celebrity death affected me. Sadly, I have to admit that I didn't follow S&E series as much after he passed. Of course, I went back years later and caught up on the episodes I missed. The second half of the 1998-1999 season was truly weird due to all the guest hosts.

@michelletackett9489 2 жыл бұрын

@@speedyboris I know. That didn't seem like the same show. It was weird. If it wasn't for the name of the show, I wouldn't have known.

@freddyfurrah3789 Жыл бұрын

I was upset when Elvis died, but not a film critic. Sorry for your loss

@Jabberstax Жыл бұрын

I think the saddest thing is seeing Roger Ebert sat alone in the studio. I was so used to seeing the two of them together.

@MarkGarza94 2 ай бұрын

These two were meant to work together!!! RIP to Roger and Gene.

@brian-ld4vd 13 күн бұрын

They are still Legends that cannot be duplicated, they were meant to be together and were so entertaining to listen to and watch. RIP to Both of The Originators.

@JM_-ix7yh 11 ай бұрын

Far, far too young. Both Siskel and Ebert should still be here today.

@user-uq6sz6po3d 5 ай бұрын

The last Siskel & Ebert show. The last time Gene is in the opening credits. Still so sad and unbelieveable. Thank God for KZfaq.

@DeformedConscience Жыл бұрын

It sucks that Gene didn't even tell Roger that he was dying. And Roger never had a chance to truly say goodbye.

@alexcamp9320 5 ай бұрын

I haven’t wept so openly for anything since my grandfather’s funeral. Damn. These two guys have come to mean so much to me and I didn’t even know they existed when this was made.

@ryanloftis1125 5 ай бұрын

I can't believe it's been 25 years now since Gene passed. I still remember where I was when I heard the news. I still miss him today, but I'm so glad there are videos like this to remember him by.

@User0000000000000004 Ай бұрын

Things like this don't exist anymore, and can't. Newspapers? Journalism? God, I miss the 90s. Nothing in the world is worth your attention anymore.

@anthemgunaether2914 Жыл бұрын

So wonderful. I met Gene in Chicago once and he was the NICEST man ever. I was a 21 year old Gate Agent for American Airlines at the time it was my first day on the job. Sooo many angry faces and grumbling from people trying to get on their flight. And Gene had a ticket I didn’t know how to process in this archaic system AA used at the time. It was that eternally long 60 seconds (I remember this like it was yesterday.) waiting for a supervisor. He just smiled and said “You’re doing a great job.” I’m 50 yrs old sitting in a Starbucks typing this and remembering how kind and peaceful he was in that 3-4 minutes he was stuck with me. In my time on this planet, Gene Siskel was the kindest “stranger” I have ever met. This was in 1995. We would lose him only about 4 years later. I can’t help but feel emotional looking at his kind smile and his intellectual and lovely energy. You see it only takes a minute to be kind. He was such a great man making a young person just out of the military feel human and valued. YOU will always be valued and remembered Mr Siskel. Rest in Power Sir.

@andyfilm5785 Жыл бұрын

wonderful story Anthem, thanks so much for sharing!

@Mex.Libris Жыл бұрын

Loved this.

@filmbuff2777 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story.

@wasteofspace20 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful share, it fits with the beautiful smile of his in that graduation video on here. All the best

@LoriVFenske 11 ай бұрын

This story made me cry! Thanks so much for sharing this. I loved them both so much!

@MarkGarza94 2 ай бұрын

I can’t believe this man passed away 25 years ago.

@hrhomer73 Жыл бұрын

There was one moment - maybe more than one - when it was obvious that Roger looked over to where Gene usually sat, expecting him to be there. That got me.

@ClosedEyeVisualisations Жыл бұрын

Why did so many people love them? Because they were genuine. Pretty simple, but exceedingly rare.

@Xayjohns 2 жыл бұрын

This is a hard episode for me to watch. I've seen it a few times now but I don't return to it often. I just watched Roger's documentary "Life Itself" a few nights ago as well. It was hard to see him having deteriorated like he had from cancer. RIP Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

@ac9559 2 жыл бұрын

I found them on PBS as a kid and was hooked. God Bless them both.

@SamJohnsonAZ 10 ай бұрын

I like to think that when you die you’re reunited with the others who passed. When Roger died gene was waiting for him on the other side. No one ever replaced these 2… not even close. RIP

@sickfarce6275 Жыл бұрын

This made me really sad. I'm german so I didn't grew up watching them or even knowing them, just the last 15 years or so I repeatedly stumbled across the two and their written reviews here and there. Just the last one and a half weeks or so I've been binge watching all these clips I can find on youtube from their shows and it's so entertaining, smart and funny watching them talk about all the movies I know, hate, love and grew up with. RIP both of you. BTW how epic did Siskel look with dat mustache :D

@krugg2798 8 ай бұрын

Such a shame, too soon. I do wonder at times what he would have thought of a lot of certain movies that came out after his passing, such Star Wars Prequels, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Dark Knight films, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Last Samurai, Avatar, Jason Bourne movies, I clearly could keep naming more movies. And sadly we will never know 😭

@greggashgarian8360 7 ай бұрын

Those really were good ol' days. Once upon a time it was possible for two adults to argue, have different opinions, respect and appreciate one other, without static, automatic hatred. Sigh

@WorldsWorstBoy Жыл бұрын

I was watching their Peewee's Big Adventure review today when I got the news Paul Ruben passed. I was reminiscing about Gene and Rodger sad about their passing so many years ago just to feel the shock of losing Paul moments later.

@jasondouglas152 11 ай бұрын

Amen

@yournamehere6002 Ай бұрын

The end of it always gets me. I can't help it, it made me cry.

@KevinJohnson-hy4oc 11 ай бұрын

Now these two are up in Heaven, laughing about all the hardships they had in their lives (and probably still bantering with eachother).

@HarbingerOfBattle 10 күн бұрын

And Ebert still won't give the thumbs down to Cop and a Half.

@goregrindisthebestgenre 10 ай бұрын

I miss both of these fine men. 😞

@phimseto Жыл бұрын

I watched this at the time and it was tough because I grew up with these two, and it felt like losing a relative. It felt the same when Roger left years after.

@WorldsWorstBoy Жыл бұрын

Rest in peace to this beautiful man. He showed me that loving cinema is a cool thing.

@MarkGarza94 Жыл бұрын

RIP Gene Siskel 1946-1999.

@drigodamus 2 жыл бұрын

Tears..

@jstewlly4747 Жыл бұрын

Roger hitting a perfect lay up and Siskel with assist is awesome I know they doing that some where around universe

@humanice2 11 ай бұрын

I really liked Siskel, he balanced Ebert out, things were never the same without him

@iamsheep 10 ай бұрын

“I came up with that idea……and before me the Romans” 😂

@DixiePokerAce 29 күн бұрын

I did not always agree with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert but I always enjoyed their show and respected their opinions.

@Alaninbroomfield 11 ай бұрын

I miss them both.

@movieman9100 Жыл бұрын

RIP Siskel and Ebert

@yaywhewclips242 11 ай бұрын

very sad that both died of horrible cancer. Roger explained ,when he was in the early times of his illness, that he was exposed to radiation as a young boy.

@alistairarchibald1312 9 ай бұрын

i have to be honest there's been countless films where i just was thinking to myself "when did this come out?" oh damn Gene already passed he didn't even get to see it. and same with Roger now

@timmyodaley1411 Жыл бұрын

God bless both of you.......

@rickbrenner6079 Жыл бұрын

Very emotional. Miss them both😊.

@justinbergmans36 Жыл бұрын

I grew up with these two and felt a certain loss, when they both passed. I loved both as critics. But, I had a certain affection for roger, because, while I respected and learned the beauty of foreign and independent films from both, I felt roger, even more than Gene, could appreciate a great commercial film.

@sandranorman6451 Жыл бұрын

I want to say that the cars were better looking back then and I MISS SISKEL AND EBERT

@BolofromAvlis 10 ай бұрын

I remember sitting in a theatre during previews after Gene's death, and during the theatres previews, it flashed something like "farewell Gene Siskel" before the film started.

@1f5sda 8 ай бұрын

🙁 I am in my thirties and I remember seeing Siskel and Ebert printed on my old VHS boxes that I still own. Despite it being over and done with, it is heartbreaking that Gene died way too soon and when Roger died years later. The world needs Siskel and Ebert more than ever! I realize that neither critic can return, however we can remember them a lot when both critics were alive as much as we would love to.

@jimlaregina 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for getting this out there again. I am sure I saw the program when it was broadcast in 1999 but, I admit, do not remember. I rarely missed Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel starting around 1981, when I became a viewer of their P.B.S. show SNEAK PREVIEWS, to the bitter end in '99.

@williamnoonan7380 2 жыл бұрын

@andyfilm - A very nice write up above. I echo your sentiments. I started watching S&E around 1987. I was only 9 or 10 at the time. This was initially the only opportunity I had to see clips of movies I wasn't old enough to watch yet but, over time, I came to appreciate these guys for their thoughtful film reviews. They would take the time to review a Pauly Shore film with the same level of consideration that they would a Scorsese or Fellini film. They were on my local Boston ABC affiliate at 7:30 on Saturday evenings. If my friends wanted me to come out on Saturday nights, they knew I was unavailable until 8:00. There have never been any film critics like these two and I hope younger folks who were born after S&E have the opportunity to come across your channel and see how the pros did it (and did it right). RIP to the legends!

@andyfilm5785 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks William I appreciate it. That kind of criticism as you wrote is in short supply today -- most online reviews seem designed for cutesy quips that get plastered on the "Tomato Meter" -- and of course the programming being commented upon is definitely not the same (in a bad way) either.

@jimbrown1559 8 ай бұрын

I was a WV transplant to Chicago after college, and who loved these guys, especially Roger. This lovely tribute shows why I thought so much of Roger, and to whom I most closely relate. We were nearly the same age, both came up in small cities, both settled in Chicago, and to whose sensibilities I closely related. And though we lived a few blocks from each other, we never met.

@prasantabehera7461 29 күн бұрын

Gene taken away so young !!.

@matthewgersch1901 9 ай бұрын

In Loving Memory Of Gene Siskel (1946-1999) And Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

@Rary.0 Ай бұрын

chicago 2 news. Wow Walter Jacobson that brings me back

@humanice2 11 ай бұрын

6:56 That interview is nowhere to be found on the internet.. yet Gene was real proud of it.

@maureencora1 Жыл бұрын

A Movie About Them.

@jasondouglas152 11 ай бұрын

You can watch over time where they didn't care much for one another and then to love and respect. It's really emotional to watch ebert talk about his partner he didn't want that became a friend. Feels like we got to be part of their world. It's something we are really missing from television, people with honest opinions and no political agenda.

@nedwart Жыл бұрын

9:04 questionably placed quotation marks

@90sgrove Жыл бұрын

Despite me disagreeing with these two on movies I liked but they didn’t these were the two most inspiring movie critics ever they were fun to watch and fun to listen them reviewing them I wished I could see them still review movies to this day it still would of been interesting

@sdcazares1980 3 ай бұрын

Let's not forget about Cal Worthington 24:37 🎶Go see Cal! Go see Cal! Go see Cal!🎶

@Luke_E_Babyy 4 ай бұрын

I would play Gene Siskel.

@josephlawson9950 Жыл бұрын

in memory of gene siskel

@JadeTheWolf1982 9 ай бұрын

I always thought they looked best as Ernie and Bert.

@AWSVids 3 ай бұрын

18:28 "Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert are breaking up. The split, if final, would end 40 years of upthrusting and down-dangling bodily appendages." 🤣

@BiffGreggle 3 ай бұрын

6:40 "That one didn't age quite so well."

@PremierTraveler 9 ай бұрын

6:33 think we’re all thinking the same thing 😬

@melanieobremki4876 10 ай бұрын

❤

@LostOffice7 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have any other S&E episodes left to post?

@ricardocantoral7672 2 жыл бұрын

Parts of this were recycled from the 500th episode special.

@pizzaearthpancakesandother2549 2 жыл бұрын

Fun facts about Gene: 1: He had a prawn-stache 2: He used to hang out with Hefner and party at the Playboii Mansion. Not sure if these facts are related

@NeoConnor1 11 ай бұрын

You misspelled Playboy.