Movie Club | Gene Siskel Film Center

Everyone's in the club! Just by attending the monthly Movie Club film and participating in the conversation, you are in! Each month we invite all audience members to join informal conversations led — but not monopolized — by carefully selected facilitators.

Gene Siskel Film Center Closed Wed. 1/30
F** YOUR HAIR & '63 BOYCOTT rescheduled to Sat. 2/2

Due to the extreme weather expected on Wednesday, January 30, the Gene Siskel Film Center offices and theaters will be closed.
However, on Saturday at noon we will be screening F*** YOUR HAIR and '63 Boycott with both director Jason Polevoi of F*** YOUR HAIR and director Gordon Quinn of '63 Boycott present for a Q&A after the screening.

If you have already purchased tickets for Wednesday night you have three choices:
• Use them for a Saturday screening;
• Exchange them for tickets to any future film at the Gene Siskel Film Center;
• Receive a refund.

Stay warm and safe!

We look forward to seeing you at the movies…
Gene Siskel Film Center Staff

PREVIOUSLY

The Leopard

Il gattopardo

1963, Luchino Visconti, Italy, 185 min.

Film series: Visconti

Showtimes:

Sat, Dec 8th 7:00pm
Sun, Dec 9th 2:00pm
Wed, Dec 12th 6:30pm

"Magnificent...a great film of a great book."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Visconti’s widescreen masterpiece is one of the cinema’s richest visual experiences. Based on the classic novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, it tells of an aging but still vigorous Sicilian prince (Lancaster, who modeled his performance on the princely Visconti) whose sympathies for Garibaldi’s revolution conflict with the interests of his own declining class. The climactic grand ball is an overwhelming tour de force of densely orchestrated detail. In Italian with English subtitles. DCP digital widescreen. Note: There will be a 15-minute intermission. (MR)

Chicago premiere!

Chef Flynn

2018, Cameron Yates, USA, 82 min.

Plays in: Runs & Limited Engagements

Showtimes:

Fri, Dec 7th 2:00pm
Fri, Dec 7th 6:00pm
Sat, Dec 8th 5:30pm
Sat, Dec 8th 7:15pm
Sun, Dec 9th 3:30pm
Mon, Dec 10th 6:00pm
Tue, Dec 11th 8:15pm
Wed, Dec 12th 6:00pm
Thu, Dec 13th 8:30pm

“Takes an honest look at child food prodigy Flynn McGarry, warts and all.”--Alan Ng, Film Threat

“Involving and mouth-watering...Gets beyond the hype surrounding culinary prodigy Flynn McGarry."-John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

Marvels of gastronomy that will take your breath away are just the amuse-bouche for juicy family melodrama that begins when ten-year-old Flynn McGarry (a recent Chicago Ideas Week lecturer) takes over cooking duties from his divorced mother and proves a culinary quick study who’s running his own gourmet supper club from their Los Angeles living room by the time he’s twelve. This revealing profile of child-prodigy chef Flynn goes way behind the scenes to portray the drama surrounding an ambitious helicopter mom and relentlessly precocious son locked in a symbiotic relationship that may ultimately result in rebellion. As innovative food creations flow non-stop from the home-schooled kid’s remarkably professional bedroom kitchen, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other national media outlets make him a star. Filmmaker Yates (THE CANAL STREET MADAM) blends footage shot over the years by Flynn’s filmmaker mother Meg (KISSHUI) with his own intimate coverage of the young chef’s rapid rise and the tumultuous process of opening a pop-up Manhattan restaurant at the age of seventeen. DCP digital. (BS)

December 12, 2018:Gene Siskel Film Center Movie Club examines Chef Flynn. Facilitators are Portia Belloc Lowndes, Founder of Slow Food Chicago; Eda Davidman, member of the GSFC Advisory Board and Green City Market Board of Directors; and Eda's 11-year-old son, Cade Missner, who started cooking on his own at age five. Each ticket-holder attending the post-screening discussion receives a complimentary beverage.

« first
‹ previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
…
next ›
last »