The Gene Siskel Film Center Celebrates the First and Last of Famous Filmmakers with their Entrances & Exits Series | Chaz’s Journal

You can get series tickets here; this series is also eligible for the Siskel Summer Pass, which you can purchase here. 

The ten filmmakers, and their films, include the following:

August 1: Agnes Varda (“La pointe courte,” “The Beaches of Agnes“)

August 4: Orson Welles (“Citizen Kane,” “F for Fake“)

August 5: Marlon Riggs (“Ethnic Notions,” “Color Adjustment”)

August 9: Vera Chytilová (“Something Different,” “Pleasant Moments”)

August 11: Satyajit Ray (“Pather Panchali,” “The Stranger”)

August 12: Ingmar Bergman (“Crisis,” “Saraband“)

August 18: Edward Yang (“That Day, on the Beach,” “Yi Yi“)

August 19: Francois Truffaut (“The 400 Blows,” “Confidentially Yours”)