Contact: Victoria Joyce (804)-361-1259 Roger Ebert selects Antonioni's Blowup for Festival workshop Charlottesville, Virginia: Film critic Roger Ebert will return to the Virginia Film Festival to apply his remarkable teaching skills to Michelangelo Antonioni's '60s masterpiece Blowup, during this year's Regal Shot-by-Shot Film Workshop. Mr. Ebert's workshops have been dubbed "democracy in the dark," since he solicits active audience participation in the interpretation of film classics. His workshops have built a devoted following not only at the Virginia Film Festival, where he has tackled such film classics as Vertigo, The Third Man, and Pulp Fiction, but also the Universities of Colorado and Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and the Canadian Center for the Advanced Study of Film. This metaphysical mystery, starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave, will be explored over three two-hour sessions: Friday, October 30, 4:00-6:00pm, and Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1 from 10:00am to noon. Tickets to the workshop are $50 for all three days or, at the door, $20 for each daily session, subject to availability. Tickets can be ordered by mail, using an order form on the website or in the Festival Guide available throughout Charlottesville, and by phone after October 14. Roger Ebert has been the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967. His work is syndicated in more than 305 papers in the U.S., Canada, England, and Japan. He has also been co-host of "Siskel & Ebert" for 23 years. He is author of 14 books, including the annual editions of Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook, the Norton anthology Roger Ebert's Book of Film, the best-selling Ebert's Little Movie Glossary, and Questions for the Movie Answer Man.

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