50 Films for 50 Years at Gene Siskel Film Center

In 1972, Camille Cook started the Film Center at the School of the Art Institute Chicago to screen auteur, independent, and international films. What started in a room at Tribune Tower, then a basement at the MCA, then an auditorium at the Art Institute is now Gene Siskel Film Center on State Street. In addition to screening films, it features director Q&As and lecture series. For its 50th anniversary, the Gene Siskel Film Center is weekly screening a film from each year it’s been open. We talk to the executive director and director of programming about the history, running a theater during a pandemic, and how to narrow it down to just 50 films.

Guests: Jean de St. Aubin — Executive Director, Gene Siskel Film Center

Rebecca Fons — Director of Programming, Gene Siskel Film Center

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