Gene Siskel Film Center Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Gene Siskel Film Center

🎭 Join us on Sunday, 9/18 at 2pm for @NationalTheatre Live's STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY, starring Ralph Fiennes in David Hare's (SKYLIGHT) blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever. 🎟️:https://t.co/k7j60wH4Im https://t.co/m9r7zNOqxG

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“IDIOCRACY is easily the most potent political film of the year, and the most stirring defense of traditional values since Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.” - Slate Don't miss Mike Judge's IDIOCRACY (2006) ➡️ Tonight at 6pm https://t.co/vUWL1wvfXu https://t.co/yaIMdsJj05

Gene Siskel Film Center

Legendary American actress and dancer Butterfly McQueen was born on this day in Tampa, Florida in 1911! Her stage debut was in "Brown Sugar," directed by George Abbott. She appeared as the shop girls' assistant Lulu in The Women (1939) and, Prissy of Gone with the Wind (1939). https://t.co/YPzrIafQ0Y

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🌸🪷Hayao Miyazaki’s beautiful HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004) is screening Mon, Aug, 22 @ 6:00 PM! Part of 50/50 💛✨ 🏯💭🎍Miyazaki’s masterpiece fable finds Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, plunged into a world of fantasy and magic 💜 🎟: https://t.co/ju3CEV48cz https://t.co/2wf3gT930i

Gene Siskel Film Center

🍽️MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981): In a film where nothing happens, everything happens. The Siskel and Ebert favorite, starring Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, was dubbed "the original podcast" by NYT: https://t.co/lE5LWVPLRb 35mm print screens April 8 at 5:30pm & April 9 at 4:00pm https://t.co/2MqYFtPZEn

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☀🍃🍂🍁🎃 Check out the Film Center's upcoming September/October releases! 🔮 George Miller's (MAD MAX: FURY ROAD) THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba begins screening THIS FRIDAY, August 26! 🎟️ https://t.co/4mrI0gDD1Q https://t.co/NxCVQyVtn5

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Gene Siskel Film Center

🎭🎬 Don't miss FENCES, Denzel Washington's adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1985 play--a searing examination of family and racial oppression in 1950s Pittsburgh--screening Wed., 6/21 & Mon., 6/26 as part of our "Daddy Issues" series. 🎟️https://t.co/0YLJwzrofM https://t.co/SNa2mJkzsa

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🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from the Film Center! 🦃 As a reminder, we are CLOSED today in observation of the holiday. Come see us this weekend: https://t.co/ote7fqcqxx (FANTASTIC MR. FOX, 2009, dir. Wes Anderson) https://t.co/8MU8IuZDQ2

Gene Siskel Film Center

🌟Dec. 26, 6:15pm: HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (2004) 🌟Dec. 26, 8:45pm: AKIRA (1988) 🌟Dec. 27, 6:15pm: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (1975) https://t.co/HCDemR2Qng https://t.co/kY0zChcUIx

Gene Siskel Film Center

🚩Tonight's your LAST CHANCE to see Mia Hansen-Løve's ONE FINE MORNING at the Film Center! Two showtimes: 5:45 pm & 8:15 pm Read Chicago critic Patrick McGavin's review of this "trenchant and absorbing" film. https://t.co/1MVHF7ianE 🎟️: https://t.co/BNYchaqgzh