The climactic monologue at the end of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 black comedy satire The Great Dictator still holds incredible relevance. Surrounded by nearly his entire country, Chaplin’s character, ...

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Halfway through coffee with Emily Long, the new executive director of the Gene Siskel Film Center, we had a little linguistic misunderstanding. She mentioned an upcoming September Film Center ...

Agnès Varda in The Beaches of Agnès (2008), screening as part of Entrances and Exits at Gene Siskel Film Center Credit: Courtesy Cinema Guild/Kanopy The first film in the series and, as the pattern ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Palestine Film Festival is a long-standing tradition at the Gene Siskel Film Center, but this year it means even more as the filmmakers use their talent to speak for the ...

Festival lineup includes eight feature films and nine shorts, film awards, a Community Film Workshop, Mystery Movie Monday, and BLKNWS From the Block returns this year, featuring short works from ...

CHICAGO — The media image of the American farmer rarely reflects the existence of Black farmers, who take center stage in the documentary “Seeds,” which is on the schedule of this year’s Black Harvest ...

Rebecca Fons, the director of programming at the Siskel Film Center in Chicago since 2021, is the new head of cinema for London’s multidisciplinary Barbican Centre, effective Sept. 1. The Barbican ...

When visiting the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago two years ago, Michael Metzger, who works at the Block Museum of Art, said he saw a poster in the lobby about the Films by Women/Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The League of Women Voters of Chicago is teaming up with the Gene Siskel Film Center for its inaugural film festival, "Democracy at Risk," from Sept. 16-21 at 164 N. State Street in ...

The 24th annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival starts Saturday at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago. The festival is run by an independent organization that exhibits and promotes films ...