Gene Siskel

An interview with animator Tomek Popakul

The Gene Siskel Film Center’s ‘35th Annual Festival of Films from Iran’

A look at the magic of Gene Siskel Film Center, with projectionist Lillian Hardester.

A conversation with the organizers of the Re:Working Labor exhibition.

If you've been to the Gene Siskel Film Center, you've probably heard the work of David Drazin.

A film about the past, the future, colonization, climate change, and humanity itself.

This year's festival offers films on history, Chicago, and important figures in African American history.

Artists' work runs the gamut from subtle to heavy-handed.

Gene Siksel has some great selections for July — here's your comprehensive guide

“Age of Cannibals” is a darkly comic foreboding German masterpiece.

The Chicago Imagist movement took place in tandem with New York’s pop art scene, which overshadows it historically. The Imagists were less concerned with being ironic and pretentious and more concerned with being completely bizarre. Most of their works take the form of comic books and paintings.

Filmmaker Chris Sullivan Talks Midwest, Production and the Implications of the Word ‘Ugly.’

“Chris Sullivan’s animated film, “Consuming Spirits,” made its Chicago debut with a special private screening in September of 2011. Following a deluge of reviews and coverage since the Tribeca Film Festival this April, the feature-length film premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival.

... the film comes together in a fragmented but powerful narrative about the complications and consequences of love, longing, disappointment and bitterness, punctuated by the dysfunctions of life in the small Appalachian town of Magusson.”

The F staff reviews our favorite flicks from the largest North American showcase of European cinema, at the Gene Siskel Film Center March 4–31.

Ahhhh, the season of the culture-specific film festival has arrived once again. On April 16th, the Palestine Film Festival kicked off at the Siskel with "Zindeeq," a convoluted, dreamlike tale starring the indomitably sexy Mohammad Bakri.