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• THE DRUMMER AT THE GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER

  2009-05-13 1:07AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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  The Drummer, Kenneth Bi and Rosa Li were invited to The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as part of the Hong Kong comes to Chicago program by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Organization.
  
  Gene Siskel Film Center on the left
  
  
  Gene Siskel on the left and Roger Ebert on the right; a small poster of the Hong Kong: New Action poster featuring 33 new directors
  
  It was a great thrill to show my film at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Gene Siskel who passed away in 1999, was a great and respected film critic along with Roger Ebert.
  
  
  Barbara Scharres (Director of Programming at the Art Institute of Chicago — Gnee Siskel Film Center), Kenneth Bi and Rosa Li
  
  The screening was on May 9th. The Film Center’s director Ms. Barbara Scharres introduced the film.
  The new Millienium Park which featured the Frank Gehry building, Cloud Gate (aka the Bean) by Anish Kapoor, among others.
  
  
  
  
  
  This was Rosa's favorite attraction in the city.“Cloud Gate” (aka The Bean)
  
  
  Frank Gehry’s building in the middle of the Millenium Park
  The whole city had Tulips on display. It’s an amazing sight.
  
  Rosa standing where Kevin Costner waited for the accountant in The Untouchables

  
  Union Station across from The Sears Tower where The Untouchables’s
  famous staircase scene was shot. Like people who meet actors in person,
  “He’s much shorter than I expected.” The staircase looked much longer
  in the film.

  
  
  Me at the bottom of the staircase
  
  We also visited the famous The Second City and saw a matinee show entitled The Best of The Second City. A great chance to see up and coming comic actors cutting their chops with a real audience.
  
  
  
  Some famous Alumni are John Candy, Eugene Levy, Bill Murray and the more recent ones are Tina Fey and her costar on 30 Rock, (Jack McBrayer who plays Kenneth).
  
  Tina Fey (bottom left corner), Steve Carell (bottom right corner), Dan Ackroyd (top lef corner), Nia Vardalos, can’t make out who the middle person is, Stephen Colbert and Bill Murray
  
  
  Jack McBrayer (bottom left corner), John Belushi (top left corner) and Mike Myers (bottom center)
  
  Also in anticipation of Michael Mann’s new film Public Enemies, we took a look at the Biograph Theatre where John Dillinger was shot to death outside the theatre. It’s actually a beautiful theatre.