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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...
Siskel Film Center executive director Emily Long: ‘How do we overcome the convenience that exists on...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCHICAGO — Halfway through coffee with Emily Long, the new executive director of the Gene Siskel Film...
Chicagoan of the Year for Film: Rebecca Fons of the Gene Siskel Film Center. ‘I’m programming for...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRebecca Fons: Not a lot of pretense there. “Lively. Friendly. To the point!” is how she prefers her...
The Siskel & Ebert rivalry, and its legacy, comes alive in the new book ‘Opposable Thumbs’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 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· 10 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 ...
Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’ — his provocative 1963 movie about a marriage — screens in a 4k...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 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 ...
2023 Chicago Int’l Film Fest: From Ukraine documentary to Michael Shannon debut, movies you’ll...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCHICAGO — Talk to three different festival programmers, even if they’re working on the same...
‘Return To Dust’, Arthouse Film Pulled From Release In China Last Year, Bows In U.S. – Specialty...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 11 months agoReturn To Dust, an arthouse hit in China last summer before being pulled from release, opens...
Review: ‘A Compassionate Spy’ is a Manhattan Project espionage story that began at UChicago
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 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 ...
First Indie Exhibition Conference In Years Rolls Into Chicago, And It’s Packed
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThe Independent Exhibition Conference, or IND/EX, launches today and it’s at capacity with 700...