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For more than 50 years, the Gene Siskel Film Center has welcomed cinephiles and curious newcomers alike to experience a curated collection of the world’s most compelling films.

🎞 Newly struck 35mm print of Taiwan-based filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang's 1998 THE HOLE opens exclusively on our screens nex...
07/18/2026

🎞 Newly struck 35mm print of Taiwan-based filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang's 1998 THE HOLE opens exclusively on our screens next Friday, July 24!

Combining deadpan humor with an austere view of loneliness and a couple of unexpected musical numbers, Tsai Ming-Liang crafted one of the most original films of the 1990s.

Tickets coming soon. Details at siskelfilmcenter.org/hole

🎭 National Theatre Live returns with Les Liaisons Dangereuses.BAFTA Award winner Lesley Manville (PHANTOM THREAD) and Ai...
07/17/2026

🎭 National Theatre Live returns with Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

BAFTA Award winner Lesley Manville (PHANTOM THREAD) and Aidan Turner (Rivals) star in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton's celebrated adaptation of the classic novel. Filmed live at London's National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this acclaimed production of seduction, deception, and social warfare.

📅 Sat. Jul. 18, 11:00 a.m.
📅 Sun. Jul. 19, 1:30 p.m.

🎟️ Get tickets: siskelfilmcenter.org/les-liaisons-dangereuses

For the season of road trips and action-adventure blockbusters, we present VROOM, SCREECH, a series of movies that celeb...
07/16/2026

For the season of road trips and action-adventure blockbusters, we present VROOM, SCREECH, a series of movies that celebrate and complicate the car chase. Featuring iconic automotive set-pieces, impressive stunt work, and serious car psychology, this slate crosses multiple lanes. 8-Film Series, July 31–August 27! 🛞🏎️💨

Reserve Your Seats → siskelfilmcenter.org/vroom

BULLITT (1968, dir. Peter Yates)
GUN CRAZY (1949, dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
WEEKEND (1971, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015, dir. George Miller)
TRAFIC (1971, dir. Jacques Tati)
DEATH PROOF (2007, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
THE FRENCH CONNECTION on 35mm (1971, dir. William Friedkin)
MOTORWAY (2012, dir. Soi Cheang)

🔥 You asked—we added encores.Missed it the first time? Due to popular demand, we've added two encore screenings of our ...
07/16/2026

🔥 You asked—we added encores.

Missed it the first time? Due to popular demand, we've added two encore screenings of our 4K restoration of AMORES PERROS!

One of the defining films of 21st-century cinema, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's electrifying debut returns as part of our 25 for 25 series celebrating 25 years on State Street.

📅 Saturday, July 25
🕑 2:00 p.m.
🕢 7:30 p.m.

🎟️ Get tickets now: siskelfilmcenter.org/amores-perros

“Kiarostami, like no other filmmaker, has a vision of human scale that is simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule.” ...
07/15/2026

“Kiarostami, like no other filmmaker, has a vision of human scale that is simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule.” - Stephen Holden, New York Times

Abbas Kiarostami's "life-affirming" 1997 Palme d'Or winner TASTE OF CHERRY plays July 17–22 in our 25 For 25 anniversary series. Get Tickets Now at siskelfilmcenter.org/taste-cherry

A truly haunting film, TASTE OF CHERRY inspired critics to use phrases like “life-affirming” without a trace of irony. A middle-aged intellectual has resolved to commit su***de for reasons that are never revealed. In the course of a search for someone who will agree to bury his body at the appointed time, he picks up hitch-hikers in his SUV, including a soldier and a maintenance worker, and makes his odd pitch. The film and the quest are one, ultimately a profound process of discovery about life’s meaning and the sum of its worth. TASTE OF CHERRY was initially banned in Iran for its forbidden theme of su***de, and it went on to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (BS) Screened in 2019 as part of Abbas Kiarostami.

🎞 The Chicago Film Society presents Frank Simon's THE QUEEN on 35mm, "a priceless snapshot of a pre-Stonewall undergroun...
07/15/2026

🎞 The Chicago Film Society presents Frank Simon's THE QUEEN on 35mm, "a priceless snapshot of a pre-Stonewall underground of drag queens, gay men, trans women, and performers" this Sunday, July 19 at 5pm! One Show Only! siskelfilmcenter.org/queen

Shot over five days in the lead-up to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant of 1967, THE QUEEN eavesdrops on a cadre of female impersonators as they primp, preen, sing showtunes, and turn New York upside down in search of the right wig. The pageant was promoted as a "satirical happening" and "psychedelic rewrite of Hellzapoppin'" mounted and hosted by Jack Doroshow, who held court as Flawless Sabrina. ("I'm 24 years old, but in drag I come across like 110, and I do this whole bar mitzvah mother thing.")

Chantal Akerman's penetrating 1978 character study THE MEETINGS OF ANNA (LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA) plays July 18, 19, and ...
07/15/2026

Chantal Akerman's penetrating 1978 character study THE MEETINGS OF ANNA (LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA) plays July 18, 19, and 22 for our 20th Century Qu**rs series!

Get Your Tickets → siskelfilmcenter.org/meetings-anna

Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. Via a succession of eerie, exquisitely shot, brief encounters—with men and women, family and strangers—we come to see her emotional and physical detachment from the world.

25 For 25: Full July–November Lineup! Our anniversary screening series revisits standout titles from our State Street er...
07/15/2026

25 For 25: Full July–November Lineup! Our anniversary screening series revisits standout titles from our State Street era.

Reserve your seats now! 🎟 siskelfilmcenter.org/25for25

Running through November, the series features films by Abbas Kiarostami, Fritz Lang, Wong Kar-wai, Lucrecia Martel, and more, along with a special November 2 screening of Elia Kazan’s WILD RIVER on 35mm presented by Karina Longworth, creator and host of You Must Remember This.

Highlights also include the return of ANTONIO GAUDÍ on 35mm—a beloved Siskel holiday tradition last screened in 2019—as well as repertory favorites including DRYLONGSO, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON, and MILLENNIUM MAMBO.

Jul. 15: THE HEADLESS WOMAN
Jul. 17–22: TASTE OF CHERRY
Jul. 24–29: THE PIANO TEACHER
Jul. 25: AMORES PERROS
Jul. 31–Aug. 5: M
Aug. 8–12: DRYLONGSO
Aug. 14–19: NEIGHBORING SOUNDS
Aug. 22–26: MILLENNIUM MAMBO
Aug. 29–Sept. 3: ATLANTICS
Sept. 5–7: MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON
Sept. 12–14: ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA
Sept. 19–21: CHUNGKING EXPRESS
Sept. 26–28: FOXY BROWN
Oct. 3–5: HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
Oct. 10–12: STARSHIP TROOPERS
Oct. 20–22: ZABRISKIE POINT
Oct. 24–26: EYIMOFE (THIS IS MY DESIRE)
🎞 Oct. 31–Nov. 2: WILD RIVER on 35mm
Nov. 7–9: FLOATING CLOUDS
Nov. 14–16: LAURA
🎞 Nov. 21–23: ANTONIO GAUDI on 35mm

John Waters's DESPERATE LIVING, the third film in the Pope of Trash's Trash Trilogy, plays July 17–23 in our 20th Centur...
07/14/2026

John Waters's DESPERATE LIVING, the third film in the Pope of Trash's Trash Trilogy, plays July 17–23 in our 20th Century Qu**rs series! Get Tickets 🎟🎟🎟 siskelfilmcenter.org/desperate-living

"Deviant cops, death by dog food, DIY surgery—Waters unleashes all this and more in an at once relentlessly warped and oddly moral vision of q***r rebellion.” - Criterion Collection

"As if Spielberg channeled Gabriel García Márquez." –Film Forward"One of the year's great debuts" –Film StageBad Bunny c...
07/14/2026

"As if Spielberg channeled Gabriel García Márquez." –Film Forward
"One of the year's great debuts" –Film Stage

Bad Bunny collaborator acclaimed photographer Stillz's BARRIO TRISTE redefines the found footage genre as a haunting, poignant, coming-of-age story with a disturbing twist. Opens exclusively at the Siskel Film Center this Friday, July 17.

Get Your Tickets: siskelfilmcenter.org/barrio-triste

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