C-U Blogfidential

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this third entry, he offers a HAMLET assessment.

The Production Group of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is looking for material to present at their first IMC Film Festival, taking place February 6-8, 2009, at the IMC in Urbana, IL.

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this second entry, he recalls key moments in “Ebertfest” history.

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this first entry, the 10th “Ebertfest” begins.

Classic and contemporary Hollywood finds a home at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign for another year, thanks to the News-Gazette’s on-going Film Series.

Current cult cinema returns for a local encore as the Canopy Club celebrates CHRISTMAS ON MARS one last time and the Avon Theater confirms that MY NAME IS BRUCE several times over.

Area native Dennis Neal Vaughn will premiere his new short subject, ELECTRIC CITY – FAR FROM NORMAL, at the Normal Theater in (you guessed it) Normal, IL, later tonight, Monday, December 1, 2008.

Short subjects DER BALLONG and TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT won the awards at last night’s 49 Hour Film Competition festival, presented by Illini Film & Video.

There’s lots of unique movie events this month in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond. Why not stop reading this cheeky little blurb and go read the detailed post instead? You might like it.

The fourth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, produced by Eastern Illinois University and highlighting the work of actress Joan Allen, will take place November 4-8, 2008, in downstate Charleston.

Festival passes for the next Ebertfest, taking place at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign on April 22-26, 2009, are now on sale.

The 15th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival will give the Midwest its first public look at the documentary HOOPESTON, produced by New York-based indie SYNYDYNE, this Thursday, October 30, 2008.

PROCEED AND BE BOLD!, a new documentary by former Illini Film & Video stalwart Laura Zinger and Brown Finch Films, will be shown Saturday, October 25, 2008, at 7 p.m. in the Armory Building on the University of Illinois campus.

COBB FIELD, the latest production from Callan Films of Effingham, IL, will have its local premiere at the Rosebud Theatre in Effingham on Monday, October 20, 2008.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the signing of veteran actor Hal Holbrook to appear at LincolnFest in downtown Champaign on March 12-15, 2009. Also, your editor bitches about ill-chosen words by well-meaning people.