Dispatch: Siskel’s European Union Film Festival Concludes with Compelling Personal Stories
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you…
Dispatch: Week Three at Chicago European Union Film Festival
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you…
Review: Relative, a Genuinely Chicago Film, Tells the Story of a Rogers Park Family Going Through Change
Relative weaves together the stories of a Rogers Park family--the progressive parents, their adult children and their children--as change affects them all.
Celebrate 50 Years of the Siskel Film Center with 50/50, a Chronological Film Series
The Gene Siskel Film Center celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, and the downtown cinema is celebrating with a year-long…
Review: Bibliophiles Will Get Lost In the Nostalgia, Promise of The Booksellers
As author Fran Lebowitz reminds us in the terrific new documentary The Booksellers, there was a time not so long…
Chicago’s Independent Cinemas Find Creative Ways to Keep Us Entertained From Home
As we head into our second (and far from last) official week of Illinois’s “Stay at Home” order, keeping busy…
Siskel’s CEUFF Week 2: European Films (Mostly) Worth Braving the Crowds For
With the ever-developing news around COVID-19, institutions like the Siskel Film Center are diligently implementing the recommendations and precautions necessary…
Siskel’s European Union Film Fest Week 1: Avoid Travel, Head to the Cinema for Adventure
The Chicago European Union Film Festival is the Siskel Film Center’s annual love letter to the cinema of nearly an…
Review: We Believe in Dinosaurs Details the Fight Over Creationist “Ark Park” in Kentucky
We Believe in Dinosaurs is the title of the handsomely made documentary feature directed by Clayton Brown and Monica Long…
Review: Citizen K Traces One Man’s Rise and Fall in Putin’s Russia
Perhaps one of his more complicated and layered profile documentaries, the latest from filmmaker Alex Gibney (an Oscar winner for…
Review: Renegade Emergency Medical Service Drives Midnight Family
Although it didn’t make the cut as an Academy Award nominee earlier this week, the documentary feature Midnight Family did…
Review: On One Critic’s Life, Words and Influence on Film in What She Said
It seems odd to be reviewing a documentary about a film critic whose influence is still a big part of…
