C-U Blogfidential

In the premiere of C-U Blogfidential’s new all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about a Chicago benefit for the B-N indie USING, the 21 Film Project contest, the public I article about local film fests, an orphaned local film DVD, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Skip Huston dons his professorial guise once again to surprise us with a new round of “overlooked films” during his next Richland Community College class which will begin tonight, Thursday, June 17, 2010, at the Avon Theater in Decatur.

Normal, IL, movie-maker R.C. Raycraft releases his rock documentary INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK a full 40 years after the music festival “Incident at Kickapoo Creek” originally took place, starting at the Normal Theater on Monday, May 31, 2010.

At long last, the fourth edition of C-U Confidential will make its debut during the final evening of the New Art Film Festival tonight, April 20, 2010, at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL.

It’s time to support your local art house, kids, and there’s no better way to do it than to get your indie flick fix during the New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater in Champaign, IL, from April 15-20, 1010.

It’s here! It’s here! Time to make your picks for attending the inaugural New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, taking place April 15-20, 2010 alongside the Boneyard Arts Festival. Time, in fact, to support your local filmmaker in public during a high-profile community extravaganza. We know you can do it.

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the twelfth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

Yes, it is time. Please help us get C-U Confidential back on the streets where it belongs as we segue into the fifth year of our Unofficial Five-Year Plan for Indie Film Domination in Our Backyard.

A smattering of singular movie shows bring a little variety to area screens this weekend, including a locally-produced featurette, a Bollywood thriller, Oscar-nominated shorts, and two creature features.

Yes, there’s more than enough material available to fill up a second C-U Confidential Local Movie Show this coming April at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign. Silly naysayers.

It’s Unofficial Litmus Test Week at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL, where new operator Sanford Hess will begin testing the threshold of how creative his programming choices can get and still fly with his patrons.

The IMC Film Festival returns to celebrate the art of cinematography later this week during February 5-7, 2010, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in the old Post Office building in downtown Urbana, IL.

The submission deadline for the second annual IMC Film Festival has been extended to Wednesday, January 20, 2010.

Springfield native and former Mahomet/C-U resident Laura Bynum returns to the area to read from her just-published first novel, Veracity (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster) at 7 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at Borders bookstore in north Champaign.

Greg Boardman will conclude his proprietorship of the Art Theater in downtown Champaign with a run of THE BICYCLE THIEF which will end on Wednesday, December 30, 2009.