Writer-director dedicates screening of 'Delirious' to absent film critic

CHAMPAIGN – The "disastrous distribution history" of his film "Delirious," which opened the second day of Roger Ebert's Film Festival on Thursday, left writer-director Tom DiCillo "dumbfounded, lost and bewildered."

So much so that he e-mailed five questions to Ebert, whom he had never met. The critic replied to every single one.

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