TV Squad (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert can probably be credited with really getting everyone interested in movie criticism. Before Sneak Previews , people would read movie reviews, sure, but they brought intelligent film criticism to television and became a huge part of pop culture. This is a tribute from The Nostalgia Critic , and he covers the history of the show, from the start on PBS to the death of Siskel...
Talking Pictures (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Alongside the felt-free Alain Resnais retrospective, this month the Gene Siskel Film Center is re-running a substantial portion of “Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy,” which was a significant popular success last year for the State Street cinematheque. The...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
If you're sick of looking at paintings and sculptures all the danged time, for god's sake already, then maybe it's time to give your eardrums a work-out. And here's the perfect venue to do so: the 10th annual Outer Ear Festival of Sound , a celebration of the sonic arts in Chicago presented by the Experimental Sound Studio , the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute and several other...
Canadian Entrepreneur (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I just found out that I have outlived actor Raul Julia. Also Jerry Garcia, Gene Siskel, Enrico Fermi, Dian Fossey, Harry Houdini and Babe Ruth. Plus Lenin, and Hermann Goering. The source of this trivial nostalgia is a clever, simple website called http://dead.atyourage.com . Just type in your date of birth and you'll find get the names of prominent people who passed away when they were just your age,...
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
I was reading the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago, and they reported that betting line and most of the "experts" predicted that Chicago would get the 2016 Olympics; you know how THAT worked out. My question, then, is: What are your sources of information that you most trust? It might well be different sources for different info. For instance, I find Advertising Age to be a remarkably...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Photo from HannahFree.com Feeling the itch for some great lesbian film this weekend? Particularly one that's Chicago-made? If so, you're in luck. Tonight, the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, begins a week-long limited engagement of Hannah Free . The film is a brand new Ripe Fruit feature filmed in Chicago and starring Sharon Gless (of overbearing, PFLAG-mom-of-the-year Debbie Novotny on Queer...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Chicagoans Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert changed the face of movie criticism with At the Movies; now, another critic from the Windy City, Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, is ready to take up the mantle on the venerable show. Phillips was a theater writer at the LA Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Dallas Times Herald before taking over as the movie beat...
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
TIFF coverage – The late Gene Siskel used to ask whether a given film was more interesting than watching the actors sit down and have lunch together; when it comes to most docs these days, ask yourself, before you buy a ticket, whether you’d rather read a book or lengthy magazine article on the same subject. Does cinema bring something to the material that a combination of words and stills...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Without speaking ill of the dead at too much length, it’s pretty safe to say that most fans of serious (or at least semi-serious) film criticism were overjoyed to learn that the experiment in dumbing down At The Movies —the TV show birthed ages ago by titans of the pen, Gene Siskel and Rogert Ebert—failed. After just one season, Ben Lyons (of E!) and Ben Mankiewicz (of Turner Classic...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Misunderstood Modern Cinema: Dune by Mike Dawson Left Field Cinema ... So what didn’t the critics like about the film when it was released? Critics like Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Janet Maslin, and Richard Corliss (all of whom are reputable American film critics) all chastised the film with scathing one-star reviews. The common complaint was that the film was structurally a mess, overly confusing,...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
The 1970s -- foxy and super fly division -- will live again oh-so-briefly at the Gene Siskel Film Center this month with a special screening of a high-energy blaxploitation spoof that made a splash at Sundance earlier this year.
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
I and many other Hollywood journalists were sufficiently outraged when, one year ago, Disney/ABC's movie criticism show once hosted by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, and then Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, was put into the unworthy hands of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz, both of whose primary claim to fame was nepotism. Fortunately for viewers, [...]
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Filed under: Talk Show , Reality-Free At the Movies , the long-running cinema review show that once starred well-respected critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, is going back to the idea of employing experienced reviewers as hosts. Disney and ABC film-canned Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz this week. The show's now-dismissed young, hipster critics never really showed any particular cinema savvy besides...
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