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Gene Siskel Film Center should add Roger Ebert to its name

The team needs to be reunited for posterity. Legions of Siskel and Ebert fans would all give this idea a big thumbs up, writes a lifelong Chicagoan and movie fan.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 1, 2023

Siskel Film Center executive director Emily Long: ‘How do we overcome the convenience that exists on the couch?

CHICAGO — 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 retrospective of banned films, curated by the center’s programming director Rebecca Fons; I heard the word “band,” not “banned,”…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 17, 2023

Black Harvest at the Film Center: Some films to see at the fall perennial, this time without co-founder Sergio Mims

CHICAGO — The 28th Black Harvest Film Festival, which kicks off this weekend and continues through Nov. 20 in person at the Gene Siskel Film Center, will not be like the previous 27.

Chicago Tribune · Nov 4, 2022