C-U Blogfidential

THE INFORMANT! is now playing in a theater near you.

It’s not often that one sees such a potluck served here at C-U Blogfidential, but here you go … all nine courses’ worth.

The Avon Theater in Decatur, IL, will start playing the Warner Bros. picture THE INFORMANT!, starring Matt Damon, on September 18, 2009.

A double-feature of locally-made short film thrillers will premiere under the umbrella title DOGHOUSE at The Canopy Club in Urbana, IL, at 4:45 p.m. on Sunday, September 6, 2009.

Champaign Movie Makers is on the move thanks to Johnny Robinson and club volunteers! Upcoming projects include a short film premiere and a mixer open to the public.

Here at C-U Blogfidential, we believe that your film has the right to be seen outside of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond. Click here for a hit list of opportunities to help your film do just that.

The Canopy Club in Urbana, IL, hosts this year’s Illini Film & Video Spring Film Festival tomorrow, Sunday, May 3, 2009, starting at 5 p.m.

They once called him the poor man’s Roger Ebert. They were right. Help him realize that it is not such a bad thing by attending the first-ever C-U Confidential local movie show, “Local Cinema @ Paradiso,” this Friday, April 17, 2009, from 6-10 p.m. at Caffe Paradiso in Urbana!

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

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this sixth entry, he tackles Tarsem’s baroque sensibilities as evidenced in THE CELL.

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this fifth entry, he acknowledges the good intentions of HULK but smashes its execution.

This month’s outing of community art critique A Call to Arts will take place tonight, Tuesday, February 17, 2009, in the auditorium of the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign. Bring locally made films to discuss with the audience!

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this fourth entry, he fawns mercilessly over MISHIMA.

The first IMC Film Festival, a “celebration of the art of cinematography,” will take place February 6-8, 2009, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in the old Post Office building in downtown Urbana, IL.

Members of a bridge club in conservative, small-town Farmland, IN, (seemingly) bare all in a fundraising effort to save a historic building in THE COURTHOUSE GIRLS OF FARMLAND, which plays the Normal Theater in Normal, IL, on February 3-4, 2009.