Behold, THE EPISODE OF DEATH! Feel the grim reaper’s icy grip on your shoulder has you gaze upon the ghosts of Larry Sanders guest stars past! Gene Siskel: DEAD, 2/20/99 (complications from brain surgery)! Warren Zevon: DEAD, 9/7/03 (lung cancer)! Then j

On Thursday, it’s the Gene Siskel Film Center’s turn to screen some of the films and videos in this series. Steve Anker, one of the editors of Radical Light, will introduce Thursday’s screening and sign copies of the book afterwards. He’s sure to have so

This week Ben Sachs reviews House of Pleasures, Bertrand Bonello's French drama about a bordello at the turn of the 20th century; it opens Friday for a week-long run at Gene Siskel Film Center. Like the critic Walter Benjamin, writes Sachs, Bonello tries

"I have made an effort to get hold of the images in which the experience of the big city is precipitated in a child of the middle class. I believe it possible that a fate expressly theirs is held in reserve for such images. No customary forms await them

The European Union Film Festival, the city’s best film fest for several years running, begins in three weeks. The Gene Siskel Film Center announced the schedule yesterday (it’s already online), and it’s another commendable program: if I can find the time

Beginning last month at Film Forum in New York, screenings organized by TIFF have taken place at Berkeley university, at Harvard, at the Gene Siskel Film Centre in Chicago and at Bard College in Upstate New York. Nine further stops are due south of the b