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Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. He is best known for co-hosting various movie review television series with colleague Roger Ebert. [ 1]
The Gene Siskel Film Center selects and presents significant world cinema in a non-commercial context that sets aesthetic, critical and entertainment standards.
Feb 21, 1999 · Gene Siskel, the slighter, intense half of the popular Siskel and Ebert team of dueling movie reviewers, died yesterday at a hospital near his home in Chicago, two weeks after leaving the long...
Gene Siskel's legacy as a film critic goes above and beyond his trademark "thumbs up - thumbs down" film verdicts. He died on Feb. 20, 1999, and he will forever be remembered as a world class journalist who worked diligently to preserve the integrity and future of filmmaking, and as the man who often ended his interviews by asking his subjects ...
The Official Gene Siskel Web Site contains everything you want to know about this world-renowned film critic and journalist. Read about everything from the Journalist, the Sports Fan, to the Collector.
Feb 21, 2014 · Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1999, the world of film criticism was forever altered by the passing of Gene Siskel, film critic for the Chicago Tribune and half of the legendary duo of Siskel & Ebert.
Gene Siskel was an American journalist and film critic for the Chicago Tribune who became one of the most-influential movie reviewers in the United States when he teamed up with fellow film critic Roger Ebert from the rival Chicago Sun-Times on a weekly television program.
Gene Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) and Roger Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013), collectively known as Siskel & Ebert, were American film critics known for their partnership on television lasting from 1975 to Siskel's death in 1999.
Dec 14, 2012 · Farewell, my friend. For the first five years that we knew one another, Gene Siskel and I hardly spoke. Then it seemed like we never stopped. We began as film critics for the two morning papers in Chicago, both still in our 20s and eager to establish ourselves–preferably at the other’s expense.
Nov 16, 2023 · Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who went on the air together for the first time in 1975, have been off the air for a long time now. Siskel died in 1999, and Ebert bowed out in 2011, two years...