C-U Blogfidential

Jason Butler was not the only Pi Omega Omega brother named Jason to aim a projector on a flat surface at Mike n’ Molly’s. Here is the 10-cent skinny on MICRO-FILM indie cinema shows staged there in 2003 and 2006.

Jason Butler and BrainSmart Productions light up the screen at Mike n’ Molly’s in Champaign, IL, for one final time on Thursday, May 26, 2016, with three of their distinctive horror-comedies. Go get some, gang!

Provision Elevator Advertising and the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum have teamed to present an all-ages summertime event for the community, “Champaign Cinema under the Stars,” launching tonight!

The latest from Predestined Arts & Entertainment of Springfield, BEFORE ‘I DO,’ will premiere at that city’s Hoogland Center for the Arts tonight, April 30, 2016. Director Kimberly D. Conner helps us preview the show!

Illinois Public Media and the University of Illinois have released a half-hour-long video covering this week’s edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival called EBERTFEST 2016. Watch it here!

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the panels to be held in conjunction with the eighteenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

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

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Oops, we did it again, but we’re driving to catch up on sharing New Art Film Festival photographs by Dora Valkanova starting here with a 2015 set!

From the “Flicker of the Week” Dept.: On February 23 and 25, 2016, the Main Library at the University of Illinois will present an imaginatively conceived “International Science Fiction Film Festival.”

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about celebrity sightings to come, single-screen venues to preserve, and miscellany du C-U for all to behold!

From the “Flicker of the Week” Dept.: The exhibit “Time / Image” “explores the interrelationship of time and thought in contemporary art” through April 23, 2016, at Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, IL.

From the “Flicker of the Week” Dept.: Well-worn theater standards are revisited in CHI-RAQ, now on home formats, and MACBETH, laying siege at the Normal Theater in Normal, IL, on January 30-31, 2016.

From the “Flicker of the Week” Dept.: Tempt your taste buds and expand your wine-on-film aptitude with this well-poured series playing the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, IL, on January 28-30, 2016!

In the premiere of our “Flicker of the Week” Dept.: British superstar David Bowie left five decades’ worth of artistic output here on planet Earth, including two curious fantasy films playing local theaters this weekend.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: On Sunday, December 20, 2015, all C-U cinema patrons will gather at the Art Theater Co-op to get a first look at the locally produced micro-film HOLLY. Yes? Correct? Perchance, we dream…