Ebert Center for Film Studies Events, College of Media

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Thursday, October 23, 2025

    • 7:00 pm
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

    As part of the annual Roger Ebert Lecture and Screening, join us for the screening of Piccadilly (1929). E.A. Dupont’s film starring Chinese-American pioneer Anna May Wong is a formative cinematic entry in the transition from silent to sound films.

Friday, October 24, 2025

    • 2:00 pm
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

    Join us for this Fall’s Roger Ebert Lecture, given by Yiman Wang, professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. Wang’s lecture will present from her recent book "To Be an Actress," on early Hollywood Chinese-American performer Anna May Wong.

Thursday, November 13, 2025

    • 7:00 pm
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

    Join us for the Ebert Center screening of Ari Aster’s debut feature-length film "Hereditary" (2018), one of the most notable horror films of the 2010s.