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The first Gazette of 2025 is here! We're proud to present the first issue of volume 53 of the Gazette. Read online at bit.ly/4fwMcXI and pick up a copy at your next visit!
Cheers to another year of great cinema.
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See #ChiFilmFest selections on screens around town this weekend:
🇨🇦 UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE at the @filmcenter
🇺🇸 NICKEL BOYS at AMC River East
🇳🇴 ARMAND at the @filmcenter
🇧🇷 I'M STILL HERE at AMC NEWCITY & other theaters
🐈⬛ FLOW at @facetschicago, AMC River East, & other theaters
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🎬 CHICAGO! Join us next Friday, February 7th, at the @filmcenter for a special screening of "Time Passages."
After the screening, don’t miss the Q&A with director Kyle Henry and our regional organizing manager, Zahna Woodson. 🌟 siskelfilmcenter.org/time-pa…
ALT Promotional poster for the film "Time Passages," a documentary about family, dementia, and healing. The poster features a collage of black-and-white photographs with a person in the center, and includes details about a screening in Chicago on February 7th at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The event includes a Q&A with Kyle Henry and Zahna Woodson. The poster also displays laurels from the Austin Film Festival and recognition from Caring Across Generations.
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I haven't watched nearly as much as Joe has, but it's been a delight finally digging into some of Wiseman's filmography; NEAR DEATH for six hours at GSFC yesterday especially was a rare, transcendent experience. Don't miss these remaining Wiseman screenings, y'all.
👋 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 bit.ly/42qM4G5
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#ChiFilmFest selection I'M STILL HERE — nominated for 3 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actress — opens today at the @filmcenter. 🇧🇷
Get tickets now for this "gripping, profoundly touching" political and family drama starring Fernanda Torres: siskelfilmcenter.org/im-stil…
This Week in the Worlds of Wiseman! bit.ly/3WbGTWC
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
👋 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 bit.ly/42qM4G5
Three Academy Award nominations for Walter Sales's I'M STILL HERE! Opening tomorrow at the Film Center siskelfilmcenter.org/im-stil…
#Oscars
Best Picture
Best Actress, Fernanda Torres
Best International Film
"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.
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/mo…
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.
siskelfilmcenter.org/prima-f…
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.
siskelfilmcenter.org/johnny-…
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Tickets selling fast for our January 26th screening of "Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza" at Gene Siskel Film Center @filmcenter. Grab your tickets now before they sell out at buff.ly/4avB5w3 🍉🎬
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.
🎟️ siskelfilmcenter.org/adff
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. siskelfilmcenter.org/christm…
Tonight, in our The Worlds of Wiseman series:
ADJUSTMENT AND WORK: 5:30pm
MULTI-HANDICAPPED: 8pm
siskelfilmcenter.org/wiseman
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. siskelfilmcenter.org/iran
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.
nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movie…
This Week in The Worlds of Wiseman! Get tickets bit.ly/3WbGTWC
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
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!
siskelfilmcenter.org/room-ne…
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.
siskelfilmcenter.org/johnny-…