Chicago’s premier movie theater. Open to the public seven days a week featuring world-class international, independent, and classic cinema. Over 1,500 screenings and over 100 filmmaker appearances annually.
The Gene Siskel Film Center selects and presents significant world cinema in a non-commercial context that sets aesthetic, critical, and entertainment standards.
To this end, the Gene Siskel Film Center exhibits a range of carefully curated film art in technically excellent facilities, and educates the audience by setting film in an historical and cultural context through courses, lectures, panel discussion, and publications, and through research and collections. As an integral part of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Gene Siskel Film Center further enhances the educational mission of the school and promotes a dialogue between disciplines.
