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Sergio Mims, cofounder of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Black Harvest Film Festival, dies at 67
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSergio Mims, longtime film historian and co-founder of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Black Harvest...
Chicagoan of the Year for Film: Rebecca Fons of the Gene Siskel Film Center. ‘I’m programming for...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRebecca Fons: Not a lot of pretense there. “Lively. Friendly. To the point!” is how she prefers her...
Siskel Film Center executive director Emily Long: ‘How do we overcome the convenience that exists on...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCHICAGO — Halfway through coffee with Emily Long, the new executive director of the Gene Siskel Film...
The Siskel & Ebert rivalry, and its legacy, comes alive in the new book ‘Opposable Thumbs’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLike any great rivalry, the competition and, later, the lucrative partnership between Chicago...
‘The Unknown Country’ review: At the Siskel Film Center, a beautiful debut film starring Lily...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe sign above the highway-located Conoco gas station says it plainly: WELCOME TO MID-AMERICA. Continuing its Chicago premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center through Aug. 30, writer-director ...
Review: ‘A Compassionate Spy’ is a Manhattan Project espionage story that began at UChicago
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe film hasn’t changed. But the context certainly has. The latest Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” opening Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center, made its world premiere late ...
‘Saint Omer’ review: A real-life murder trial becomes a singularly moving courtroom drama
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOne of 2022′s near-perfect films is now in limited theatrical release in the U.S., with a two-week run at the Gene Siskel Film Center. “Saint Omer” marks the narrative feature debut of the French ...
‘Return To Dust’, Arthouse Film Pulled From Release In China Last Year, Bows In U.S. – Specialty...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 10 months agoReturn To Dust, an arthouse hit in China last summer before being pulled from release, opens...
Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’ — his provocative 1963 movie about a marriage — screens in a 4k...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months ago“Contempt” remains as peculiar, sullen and gorgeous a film today as when Jean-Luc Godard had the profoundly conflicted experience of making it 60 years ago. The new 4k digital restoration, courtesy ...
Review: ‘Last Things,’ from a true Chicago poet of experimentalism, now at the Film Center
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFifty minutes: so many ways you can spend that amount of time. Reading. Running. Cooking. Talking with a therapist about your place in this world. Or this: Watching Chicago-based filmmaker Deborah ...