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Siskel Film Center@filmcenter
23 Dec 2024
The first Gazette of 2025 is here! We're proud to present the first issue of volume 53 of the Gazette. Read online at bit.ly/4fwMcXI and pick up a copy at your next visit! Cheers to another year of great cinema.
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Chicago Int'l Film Festival@chifilmfest
21 Feb 2025
See #ChiFilmFest selections on screens around town this weekend: 🇨🇦 UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE at the @filmcenter 🇺🇸 NICKEL BOYS at AMC River East 🇳🇴 ARMAND at the @filmcenter 🇧🇷 I'M STILL HERE at AMC NEWCITY & other theaters 🐈‍⬛ FLOW at @facetschicago, AMC River East, & other theaters
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Caring Across Generations #CareCantWait@CaringAcrossGen
30 Jan 2025
🎬 CHICAGO! Join us next Friday, February 7th, at the @filmcenter for a special screening of "Time Passages." After the screening, don’t miss the Q&A with director Kyle Henry and our regional organizing manager, Zahna Woodson. 🌟 siskelfilmcenter.org/time-pa…
Promotional poster for the film "Time Passages," a documentary about family, dementia, and healing. The poster features a collage of black-and-white photographs with a person in the center, and includes details about a screening in Chicago on February 7th at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The event includes a Q&A with Kyle Henry and Zahna Woodson. The poster also displays laurels from the Austin Film Festival and recognition from Caring Across Generations.

ALT Promotional poster for the film "Time Passages," a documentary about family, dementia, and healing. The poster features a collage of black-and-white photographs with a person in the center, and includes details about a screening in Chicago on February 7th at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The event includes a Q&A with Kyle Henry and Zahna Woodson. The poster also displays laurels from the Austin Film Festival and recognition from Caring Across Generations.
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Daniella@DaniellaMazzio
26 Jan 2025
I haven't watched nearly as much as Joe has, but it's been a delight finally digging into some of Wiseman's filmography; NEAR DEATH for six hours at GSFC yesterday especially was a rare, transcendent experience. Don't miss these remaining Wiseman screenings, y'all.
Siskel Film Center@filmcenter
23 Jan 2025
👋 Frederick Wiseman on front! Read all about him and our 33-film retrospective in this week's issue of the @Chicago_Reader! Full piece from @JoeEngleman at bit.ly/42qM4G5
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Chicago Int'l Film Festival@chifilmfest
24 Jan 2025
#ChiFilmFest selection I'M STILL HERE — nominated for 3 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actress — opens today at the @filmcenter. 🇧🇷 Get tickets now for this "gripping, profoundly touching" political and family drama starring Fernanda Torres: siskelfilmcenter.org/im-stil…
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This Week in the Worlds of Wiseman! bit.ly/3WbGTWC Fri 1/24 ★ 5:15 ASPEN ★ 8:15 ZOO Sat 1/25 ★ 11:00 NEAR DEATH ★ 5:15 HIGH SCHOOL ★ 7:00 HIGH SCHOOL II Sun 1/26 ★ 11:30 BALLET Wed 1/29 ★ 5:30 LA COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE Thu 1/30 ★ 6:00 PUBLIC HOUSING
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👋 Frederick Wiseman on front! Read all about him and our 33-film retrospective in this week's issue of the @Chicago_Reader! Full piece from @JoeEngleman at bit.ly/42qM4G5
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Three Academy Award nominations for Walter Sales's I'M STILL HERE! Opening tomorrow at the Film Center siskelfilmcenter.org/im-stil… #Oscars Best Picture Best Actress, Fernanda Torres Best International Film
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"Watching Wiseman opens a series of portals that offer the possibility of moving toward a new way of thinking. That future is one portal Wiseman can’t show us, but the portals he’s opened can help us get there."-@Chicago_Reader Worlds of Wiseman ends 2/5. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/mo…

Frederick Wiseman’s portals of possibility - Chicago Reader

The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Worlds of Wiseman series shows us our world. The question is whether or not we can change it.

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Join us Saturday and Sunday, January 25 and 26 at 2pm for an encore presentation of @NationalTheatre Live's PRIMA FACIE, starring Jodie Comer (in an Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance) as a young, brilliant barrister facing an unexpected event. siskelfilmcenter.org/prima-f…
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Join Jonathan Rosenbaum in conversation tonight at 5:30 p.m. for Joan Crawford in Nicholas Ray's 1954 JOHNNY GUITAR! Tickets include signed copy of Rosenbaum's new book.
Siskel Film Center@filmcenter
15 Jan 2025
Join film critic and scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum on Wed., Jan. 22 at 5:30pm, for a screening of JOHNNY GUITAR (1954, dir. Nicholas Ray, USA, 110 min.), followed by a discussion of his new book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader. siskelfilmcenter.org/johnny-…
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Chicago Palestine Film Festival@ChiPalFilmFest
21 Jan 2025
Tickets selling fast for our January 26th screening of "Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza" at Gene Siskel Film Center @filmcenter. Grab your tickets now before they sell out at buff.ly/4avB5w3 🍉🎬
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The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) returns for ADFF:CHICAGO 2025! Presented in collaboration with @chiarchitecture, join us January 31–February 2 for nine films dedicated to the creative spirit of architecture and design. 🎟️ siskelfilmcenter.org/adff
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Presented as part of both Settle In and our Worlds of Wiseman series, Frederick Wiseman's NEAR DEATH is, as The New York Times' Janet Maslin called it, “a total immersion. Those who see it will find themselves irrevocably altered." Sat., Jan. 25, 11am siskelfilmcenter.org/near-de…
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On Mon., Jan. 27, 6pm, Barbara Rubin’s transgressive CHRISTMAS ON EARTH will be presented as it was meant to be seen: on two 16mm projectors running simultaneously, accompanied by rock music from 1963. Part of our Off Center series. siskelfilmcenter.org/christm…
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Tonight, in our The Worlds of Wiseman series: ADJUSTMENT AND WORK: 5:30pm MULTI-HANDICAPPED: 8pm siskelfilmcenter.org/wiseman
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36th Festival of Films from Iran 🇮🇷 February 7–13 We celebrate this groundbreaking festival with a selection of 10 films that have defined Iranian cinema since the festival began in 1989. siskelfilmcenter.org/iran
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Walter Salles's I'M STILL HERE is officially a @nytimes Critic's Pick! ✔️ Led by a powerhouse performance from Fernanda Torres, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama. Opening at the Film Center January 24. nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movie…

‘I’m Still Here’ Review: When Politics Invades a Happy Home (Published 2025)

The award-winning Brazilian film has been a major hit in its home country — and it’s easy to see why.

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This Week in The Worlds of Wiseman! Get tickets bit.ly/3WbGTWC Fri 1/17 ★ 5:30 THE STORE ★ 8:00 RACETRACK Mon 1/20 ★ 5:15 DEAF ★ 8:15 BLIND Tue 1/21 ★ 5:30 ADJUSTMENT & WORK ★ 8:00 MULTI-HANDICAPPED Wed 1/22 ★ 8:30 MISSILE Thu 1/23 ★ 6:00 CENTRAL PARK
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Acclaimed auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, VOLVER) first English-language film, the "stunning" THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, is continuting this week at the Film Center! siskelfilmcenter.org/room-ne…
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Join film critic and scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum on Wed., Jan. 22 at 5:30pm, for a screening of JOHNNY GUITAR (1954, dir. Nicholas Ray, USA, 110 min.), followed by a discussion of his new book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader. siskelfilmcenter.org/johnny-…
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