Roger Ebert — who has been recovering from cancer of the salivary gland and two subsequent surgeries, including a tracheostomy — announced today in the Chicago Sun-Times that he’ll be attending his ninth annual, eponymous Overlooked Film Festival, held in Champaign, Illinois. He still has another surgery on deck, and as of yet can’t talk, so he’ll be limiting himself to nods, gestures (there is, after all, that famous thumb) and, fittingly, the occasional written word. For his own, full explanation of his health and (perhaps self-evident) reasons for attending the festival, click here.