Roger Ebert continues to prove himself a class act.

Ebert, recovering from a long illness during which he has been absent from the film criticism scene, describes his re-emergence for his own Overlooked Film Festival.

I have been very sick, am getting better and this is how it looks. I still have my brain and my typing fingers.

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We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I’m not going to miss my festival.

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