I spent a semester in London last year and it was the best five months of my life. As soon as I graduate I'm going to try to find a way to end up back in the best city in the world.

I'll never forget walking around London for two weekends. There are more tourists there than locals! :) But it is indeed awe inspiring. Just stepping into Westminster Abbey and staring at all of names of historical figures buried there will leave you agape.

I can get very rhapsodic about London, but I'll spare you of that. Suffice to say I love it, and this is a fine tribute. I had you pegged as more of a Paris man.

Your London Strolls is a classic.
So is Waterloo Bridge.

Thank you, so very much.....these are precious treasures in the crown.....
I am so very grateful...

So glad you liked my home city - it is indeed the best city in the world and one can never tire of it....except we did and moved to Norwich, ancient but small merchant city in East Anglia, (which was hotly tipped to become the capital in earlier centuries due to the wool trade with Europe), thus disproving Dr Johnson. It's only 120 miles away but it might as well be on a different continent, the people are so staid and droll.

My 17y son who grew up in London, has just txtd me from his stay in New York, which he describes as "the most boring place I have ever been to". I wonder why? Perhaps it is better to live in a small but historically and culturally richer island? Is the American penchant for movies (how can so many people on your site have watched so many films - are you Mr Ebert, yourself vitamin deficient from staying in darkened rooms for so much of your working life?) a replacement/compensation for lack of connectedness to a national history that we take for granted lying on every stone path, or village church porch or coastal rampart, or prehistoric circle? Or glossy newbuild sprouting up from a City of London site revealing roman sacrificial artefacts or banal objects hallowed by millenia, undreamed of by the boxed in workers typing away at their electronic relationships, storeys above. I do wonder having read your site. There seems such little of the cultural comparisons with other forms of arts that I am used to in British reviews, - is american film critique inherently internally cohesive? Would it have validity outside its own media. Hmmm, an interesting thought to brighten up a mild but damp day.

Anyway, Mr Ebert, whilst I admire wholeheartedly your vigorous (or Freudian?) wish in your ultimate sentence, our physical city will endure for a while yet, this year's bombings/bulldozers are but a scratch on the surface of our history. And one day the dust you shed here too will be yet another layer - just think, you have physically contributed to London's History!

Ebert: A London-lover might also enjoy: http://j.mp/cNDIZy

And this: http://j.mp/bX0YV2

The first guy who walks across Blackfriar's Bridge is how I imagine Rimbaud walking around London.

How lovely! I've been once to London and still love it.

I bet that man looking at the camera in the first clip didn't imagine we would be looking at him more than a century later :p

Hi, Mr. Ebert. I've begun so many comments to you, and never followed through, as I am really intimidated! I grew up watching Siskel and Ebert with my mom, so I've always been a big fan.

I had always wanted to go to Europe. My mom (can you tell we were close?) always told me I could go when I could afford it. Well, instead of that I started working for a British company and was sent there to work for a week last September, all expenses paid. If I had known I would be 40 before I got over there, I may have tried harder when I was younger!

But I digress. London is the most amazing place I've ever been. I stayed in a flat in the Square Mile, and the only other Americans I saw during that week were two of my co-workers so I felt truly immersed. I can't say enough about the city and its people. I can't wait to go back - which I'll be fortunate enough to do again next year. Thank you for the videos - they're gorgeous.

Ms Laczko, I apologize for your son's boredom with New York. Perhaps New Yorkers lack the smugness he has come to expect.

I did visit your home city and found it to be wonderful. This may have been after you left.

Roger, thanks so much for a glimpse at the evolution of a city I love.

Well I love London too, and lived there for 17 years, so it still feels like home, and even now I only live an hour away. But but but! I won't hear anything a word against New York either. New York is one of the most exciting cities in the world, and I love New Yorkers too. I hope that I can afford to visit it again soon.

Tina, your poor son needs a helping hand.

My first trip to London is yet five months away, but please let me note the following: Anyone who spends time in New York City and finds it boring has simply been led astray.

NYC is both endlessly fascinating and impossible to conquer. Those who have lived there their entire lives still discover something new on an almost daily basis, and visitors are left lagging in the lees of an avalanche of art, of people, of neighborhoods and city blocks and wonders to behold at every step.

If your son was truly bored, then please forward me his info while he still lives and breathes the culture that surrounds him. In my almost 60 years of life I have only spent a total of 10-11 months in NYC scattered across the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. While I could not live there (I am neither rich nor willing to sublet a "lovely" 700sqft apartment), I visit as often as life allows...

...and take joy in every moment that NYC lives. I loved Florence, I adored the Cinque Terre, I marveled at Rome.

But NYC still takes my breath away.

Ebert: Don't get me started in Chicago. Reading HItchens' bio, he writes that New York is a world city, and Chicago is the great American city.