C-U Blogfidential

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center once again is looking for material to present at the IMC Film Festival, which returns February 5-7, 2010, to the IMC in Urbana, IL.

Special film shows come fast and furious during the next two weeks and into the New Year. Don’t you want to know what they are?

Predestined Arts & Entertainment of Springfield, IL, will premiere their first short film production, THIS LIFE AIN’T PRETTY, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Springfield tonight, Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

The sixth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, produced by Eastern Illinois University and highlighting the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, will take place November 12-14, 2009, in downstate Charleston. And, yes, we admit that we apparently counted wrong last year so you can put away that bayonet, young man.

Join us for this important flashback 10 years in the making, dearest readers of C-U Blogfidential.

Festival passes for the 12th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in Champaign, IL, in April 2010 will go on sale this Sunday, November 1, 2009.

Taste the possible future of narrative film presentation by taking in an old-fashioned low-budget romance, OPA!, at the Beverly Cinema 18 in Champaign, IL, starting on Friday, October 16, 2009.

You’ve heard of speed dating, yes? Well, then, how about an exciting round of “speed casting” for the indie film FINDING VIRGINIA, starting at 5 p.m. today, Friday, October 16, 2009, at the Capital Area Career Center in Springfield, IL? Madness!

C-U Blogfidential shares some ideas about places to go, people to meet, and events to attend, because we are firm believers in moderating one’s time in front of one’s video screens at the home front.

THE INFORMANT! adds $8.7 million to its total earnings during its second full week of release in the U.S. Yes, we know its third full week of release just concluded. Tell it to the judge!

If TRON can spawn a sequel, why not PRESS START? Dark Maze Studios of Champaign reveals that PRESS START 2 CONTINUE is currently in production.

Several individuals would like to stand up in front of a local audience this week and tell us all about it. Are you game to listen and learn, dearest readers?

THE INFORMANT! collects $14 million at the U.S. box office during its first full week of release.

A series of presentations to showcase the creative, non-commercial output of post-World War II filmmakers in Europe to help the intercontinental “Marshall Plan” meet its goals will be held September 24-26, 2009, on the Unviersity of Illinois campus under the title, “Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948–1953,” hosted by Sandra Schulberg.

The eighth annual Route 66 International Film Festival presents the best in global independent cinema at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield, IL, on September 19-20, 2009.