Whenever Hollywood remakes a classic film or foreign hit, many bemoan the limited imagination of these new versions. But what if, rather than complain, we actually celebrated the remake as art, then we might approach the current film series, The Art of the Remake: Revisions and Revivals, at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center. Sara Hall’s list of remakes in her program notes highlight the genre’s vast variety: “the Hollywood film remade as a foreign film, the foreign film remade by Hollywood, the silent film remade as a sound film, the nonmusical remade as a musical, the short subject remade as a feature film, the unofficial remake, the "shot-for-shot" remake, and the multiple remake.”  Among the pairings to be explored are F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent vampire film Nosferatu and Werner Herzog’s 1979 sound remake Nosferatu the Vampyre, Mel Stuart’s 1971 family friendly Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Tim Burton’s 2005 hipper-than-thou remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and finally a three-way remake with Douglas Sirk’s 1955 melodrama classic All That Heaven Allows, R.W. Fassbinder’s 1974 gritty German remake, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and finally Todd Haynes 2002 lush nostalgia piece Far From Heaven.