CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
Winterset
Via Zoom: Rebecca Fons of the Gene Siskel Film Center, ReOpening on August 6, 2021
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 4, 2021 - 5:30amCHICAGO – A cinema treasure, the Gene Siskel Film Center, reopens in-theater screenings on Friday, August 6th, 2021, the first since the pandemic closure in March of 2020. During the closure, they also named a new Director of Programming, Rebecca Fons.
Podcast Talk: Rebecca Fons on Reopening the Iowa Theater in Winterset on May 25, 2017
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 24, 2017 - 9:51amCHICAGO – When Rebecca Fons, the former Education Manager of the Chicago International Film Festival, was getting married to Jack C. Newell – a prominent Chicago film director – her mother Marianne told her something that would change the course of their lives. Fons’ hometown movie theater, the “Iowa,” was about to offered for sale. In the equivalent of the recent Matt Damon family film favorite, Rebecca and Marianne Fons was about to star in their version of “We Bought a Movie Theater.”
