with both hands (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
See Houli's Tapioca At GENE SISKEL CENTER 164 North State Street Chicago, Illinois 60601 Tel: 312-846-2600 MOVIE HOTLINE: 312-846-2800 Located on State Street between Randolph and Lake streets, the Film Center is approximately one block from all CTA "L" and subway lines, as well as several major bus routes.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... his cancer surgery, and his fondness for The Phantom of the Opera , while also working in some of Gene Siskel's greatest putdowns of him during their heyday together. We urge you to read the post itself, titled "Siskel & Ebert & the Jugular." In the meantime, though, after the jump are our five favorite Siskel disses as recounted by Ebert in the piece. 5. "Phone for you, Rog. Your shoes...
The editblog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
One of my movie memories that goes back many, many years was watching Siskel and Ebert giving their thumbs up and thumbs down to movie after movie after movie. I would love to know how many episodes that I TiVoed over the years. Gene Siskel died in 1999 and Richard Roeper took over and used [...]
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Sexiest movie that improved on already-sexy source material: Twilight . • Sexiest album that took thirteen years to make: Chinese Democracy. • Sexiest target of Gene Siskel’s insult humor: Roger Ebert …[Continue Reading]
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Ebert cracks wise over the bludgeoning banter between he and Gene Siskel through the years as a way of getting into his history of body image . Like many recent entries in his blog, there are zigs, zags and fruitful diversions, and the 2,500 words may be his most adventurous yet. The tone and mood vary, but a taste: "I am so much a movie lover that I can imagine a certain (very small)...
Movie Marketing Madness (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
As part of his excellent essay on the rules film critics should at least try to follow, legendary writer Roger Ebert includes the following notes about trailers and how much attention should be paid to them: Trailers. Have nothing to do with them. Gene Siskel hated them so much he would stand outside a [...]
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... or also that of his former TV partner Richard Roeper.Ebert and the estate of his late TV partner Gene Siskel hold the copyright on the "Two Thumbs Up" phrase, and Ebert withdrew the thumbs from his "Ebert & Roeper" TV show earlier this year during a contract dispute with the show's distributor, The Walt Disney Company.Ebert, who had been off TV for two years following emergency surgery...
JIMMY AKIN.ORG (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... a bit. Like many film critics writing today, I grew up watching Roger Ebert discuss movies with Gene Siskel on "At the Movies." I remember watching them discuss certain movies in the early 1980s (e.g., Raiders , Superman II Return of the Jedi ). I have the idea that the paper I delivered as a paperboy carried Ebert's written reviews, which I reading sometime in the early to mid-1980s....
PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
The Last Wright, a new documentary about the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Park Inn Hotel in Mason City, Iowa is set to debut Saturday, November 1 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. Read more about it by following the link.Image copyright Wright On The Park
Gawker (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... who goes to see the movie not to sing the words to 'Rock Me, Sexy Jesus' for years to come." When Gene Siskel predicted that "Hakuna Matata" from "The Lion King" would become a national catch-phrase, he later gracefully acknowledged he was wrong, after only a little prodding from me. [Note: A reader informs me that Gene was right. I believe the jury is still out on "Rock Me,...
Reeling (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Inspired by the after he admitted he had reviewed a movie only having watched its opening eight minutes, Roger Ebert has posted a very funny (and spot-on)to. For example:Trailers. Have nothing to do with them. Gene Siskel hated them so much he would stand outside a theater until they were over. Trailers love to spoil all the best gags in a comedy, or hint at plot twists in a thriller....
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
The late Gene Siskel had a famous litmus test for star-studded movies: Is the film more interesting than a documentary of its actors having lunch together would be? It's safe to assume that a filmed nosh shared by the cast of 1967's Casino Royale—David Niven, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, William Holden, Jean-Paul Belmondo, John Huston, and Deborah Kerr, just for starters—would...
NBA.com: Bobcats News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... broadcast premier on WYCC Chicago TV20 on Thursday, April 17, 2008. It initially premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center and has been shown at numerous film festivals since then. It was the recipient of the 2007 First Place Media Award of the Stuttering Foundation.Jim White was also recently honored with the TV-OP/TV ONE Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2008 TV-OP Festival...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... broadcast premier on WYCC Chicago TV20 on Thursday, April 17, 2008. It initially premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center and has been shown at numerous film festivals since then. It was the recipient of the 2007 First Place Media Award of the Stuttering Foundation. Jim White was also recently honored with the TV-OP/TV ONE Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2008 TV-OP Festival...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... broadcast premier on WYCC Chicago TV20 on Thursday, April 17, 2008. It initially premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center and has been shown at numerous film festivals since then. It was the recipient of the 2007 First Place Media Award of the Stuttering Foundation. Jim White was also recently honored with the TV-OP/TV ONE Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2008 TV-OP...
