{"id":588,"date":"2012-08-24T01:45:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2016-09-11T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:41:24","slug":"roger-ebert-reviewed-one-of-my-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Roger Ebert Reviewed One of My Movies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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He did it on Twitter, here<\/a>. You have to copy and paste his link, but it’s a video of me singing a song for my daughter after she died.<\/p>\n

Sort of….So, after my daughter died of Leukemia in 2006 I was totally crushed. I couldn’t sleep right for a year, and was really depressed. One thing that really helped pull me out of it after a year, something that was really cathartic, was this: I recorded a version of the heart-wrenching Jeff Buckley song (written by Leonard Cohen) “Hallelujah” in remembrance of Amelia. Doing that and making a YouTube video of me singing it really helped me be able to function again.<\/p>\n

I actually only watched it a few times since 2008 when I made it. I can’t really watch it. I haven’t even checked comments on much.<\/p>\n

I checked it out today finally, and noticed a bunch of comments on it from two years ago<\/a> saying things like<\/p>\n

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I have never seen or heard such heartfelt love. I found this video after Roger Ebert commented on it on his twitter page. God Bless you and Amelia Laine Worth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Found this as well via Roger Ebert’s twitter. A very heartfelt and touching video, my condolences to the both of you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Followed from Ebert’s twitter. I am so sorry for your loss. This is a beautiful tribute to your daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Also found through Ebert’s twitter. Very touching. I can imagine no better tribute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do know Ebert was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer around that time. The tweet said: <\/del><\/p>\n

@ebertchicago: I found this completely by accident and was so deeply touched by its sadness and heartfelt love http:\/\/j.mp\/cQreNj<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a comment on the beauty of the emotion, not the filmmaking. It’s FAR from my best filmmaking. FAR. It was done quick and dirty using a low-rez camera, actually an old still camera that could shoot a little video. My wife, DJ, did the camerawork and I edited it. Ironic that Ebert’s probably never seen my actual films, and I am a filmmaker by trade<\/a>, but it’s nice that he mentioned this and Tweeted it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Ebert Tweeting my little film kinda made my day today, two 1\/2 years after it happened. And I’m glad to see Ebert’s still feisty and I hope he’s Tweeting for many more years.<\/p>\n

–Michael W. Dean\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He did it on Twitter, here. You have to copy and paste his link, but it’s a video of me singing a song for my daughter after she died. Sort of….So, after my daughter died of Leukemia in 2006 I was totally crushed. I couldn’t sleep right for a year, and was really depressed. One … Continue reading “Roger Ebert Reviewed One of My Movies!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[221,218,220,217,219],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michaelstuff","tag-amelia-laine-worth","tag-cancer","tag-ebert","tag-film-reviewers","tag-leukemia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}