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Chicago's home for great cinema since 1972. See you at the movies!
164 N. State Chicago, IL 60601
Joined May 2009
The first Gazette of 2025 is here! We're proud to present the first issue of volume 53 of the Gazette. Read online at and pick up a copy at your next visit! . Cheers to another year of great cinema.
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RT @chifilmfest: See #ChiFilmFest selections on screens around town this weekend:. 🇨🇦 UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE at the @filmcenter.🇺🇸 NICKEL BOYS….
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RT @CaringAcrossGen: 🎬 CHICAGO! Join us next Friday, February 7th, at the @filmcenter for a special screening of "Time Passages.". After th….
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RT @bradshankar: I always love visiting different movie theatres, so it was awesome to check out Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center & see t….
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RT @chifilmfest: #ChiFilmFest selection I'M STILL HERE — nominated for 3 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actress — opens today at th….
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This Week in the Worlds of Wiseman! 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
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Three Academy Award nominations for Walter Sales's I'M STILL HERE! Opening tomorrow at the Film Center #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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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RT @ChiPalFilmFest: Tickets selling fast for our January 26th screening of "Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza" at Gene Siskel Film Center….
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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. 🎟️
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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.
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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.
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Tonight, in our The Worlds of Wiseman series:.ADJUSTMENT AND WORK: 5:30pm.MULTI-HANDICAPPED: 8pm.
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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.
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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.
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This Week in The Worlds of Wiseman! Get tickets 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!.
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