C-U Blogfidential

Festival passes for the next Ebertfest, taking place at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign on April 23-27, 2008, are now on sale.

Coming Soon: Ken Burns speaks at Hansen Student Center, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, and Braden Auditorium, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (10/1/07), ONE FINE DAY! Episode 3 debut on YouTube.com (10/1/07), THE QUIET MAN and HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY at Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/3/07), and cast members of MYTHBUSTERS speak at Braden Auditorium, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (10/3/07).

Coming Soon: THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE at Normal Theater, Normal, IL (10/25-28/07), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (10/26/07), Community Planning Month Film Festival at Urbana City Council Chambers, Urbana IL (10/28/07), CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE at Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (10/31/07), and “Film Exposed” workshop at 131 GSLIS Building, UIUC, Champaign, IL (11/2/07).

Coming Soon: IN THE BEDROOM at 319 Gregory Hall, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/18/07), DIVIDED WE FALL at 1080 Foreign Language Building, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/18/07), BROTHER 2 at G17 Foreign Language Building, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/18/07), Springfield and Central Illinois Film Commission meeting at Kick’s, Springfield, IL (10/18/07), Schoolhouse Film Festival at Normal Theater, Normal, IL (10/18-21/07), Gangster film conference at 1080 Foreign Language Building, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/19-20/07), and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) at Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/19-20/07).

ACT YOUR AGE, the fourth feature-length movie from Champaign, IL-based Dreamscape Cinema, will have its local premiere at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign on November 14, 2007.

Coming Soon: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (10/12-13/07), the Food Film Fest at 180 Bevier Hall, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/14/07), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925) at the Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/15/07), MUTINY: ASIANS STORM BRITISH MUSIC at 217 Noyes Lab, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/16/07), and THE GENERAL at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (10/17/07).

Coming Soon: TRULY MADLY DEEPLY at Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Champaign, IL (10/4/07), FARMINGVILLE at Illinois Disciples Foundation, Champaign, IL (10/4/07), ONE FINE DAY! debut episode on YouTube.com (10/4/07), ART:21 previews at McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL (10/9-13/07) and University Galleries, ISU, Normal, IL (10/16), and HELVETICA at Parkland Theatre, Parkland College, Champaign, IL (10/10/07).

Coming Soon: TAXI DREAMS at Illinois Disciples Foundation, Champaign, IL (9/27/07), the Tournees French Film Festival at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (9/28-10/4/07), Film Series Group general meeting at Illinois Street Residence Hall, UIUC, Urbana, IL (9/29/07), C-U Video Group monthly meeting at Rock’s, Champaign, IL (10/3/07), PRESS START theatrical premiere at the Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/3/07), and a tangent regarding KURT COBAIN: ABOUT A SON theatrical premiere in NYC (10/3/07).

Coming Soon: WETBACK: THE UNDOCUMENTED DOCUMENTARY at Illinois Disciples Foundation, Champaign, IL (9/20/07), Springfield and Central Illinois Film Commission meeting at Kicks, Springfield, IL (9/20/07), A HARD DAY’S NIGHT at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (9/21-23/07), the Moving Images Festival at Armory 101, Armory Building, UIUC, Champaign, IL (9/23/07), and the DVD release of local film PRESS START (9/25/07).

Coming Soon: VERTIGO at Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Champaign, IL (9/13/07), SEOUL TRAIN at Wardall Hall/ISR, UIUC, Urbana, IL (9/13/07), the sixth annual Route 66 Film Festival at Hoogland Center for the Arts, Springfield, IL (9/15-16/07), and the third annual Embarras Valley Film Festival in Charleston, IL (9/18-22/07).

Coming Soon: LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE! at the University YMCA, UIUC, Champaign, IL (8/30/07), HALLOWEEN hosted by Troy Taylor at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (8/31/07), CHAK DE! INDIA at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (8/31-9/1/07), HALLOWEEN hosted by Jill Van Voorst at Savoy 16, Savoy, IL (8/31-9/1/07), and the “Comedy Movie Classics” film class at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (9/13-11/1/07).

A trio of downstate indies – LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD, WELCOME TO TOLONO, and MERRY CHRISTMAS! – will be featured during the second annual Illinois International Film Festival at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, IL, on Friday, September 14, 2007, and Saturday, September 15, 2007.

WILL-TV and the University of Illinois Library once again sponsor “Home Movie Day,” a celebration of amateur small-gague cinema, at the WILL studios on Saturday, August 11, 2007, 1 p.m.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, August 8, 2007, 7 p.m. at Rock’s, 25 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign.

Believe it! Madison-by-way-of-C-U filmmaker Johnnie May will present his latest work, (i am going to love you..) SOMEDAY, during an indie rock show on Saturday, July 28, 2007, 9 p.m., at Cowboy Monkey in downtown Champaign.