Select movie listings for September 20-26, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! And did you take a peek at the Image of the week?
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Select movie listings for August 2-8, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?
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Shatterglass Films of Champaign will have its first in-house feature film, REVEALER, distributed across America on DVD on November 15, 2022, through RLJE Films and Shudder. Success!
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The late musician and Urbana resident Jay Bennett is the subject of new documentary and record releases, WHERE ARE YOU, JAY BENNETT?, now available nationwide through MVD Entertainment Group.
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The specters of Illinois urban legends form the basis of a pair of brand-new indie features, LANTERN’S LANE from Vertical Entertainment and BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION from Dark Sky Films.
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Gemelli Films of Brookhaven, NY, has taken a liking to downstate Illinois. The first result of this team-up, BAKING UP LOVE, arrived in stores nationwide in November through SP Releasing, Inc.
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A made-in-southern Illinois micro-budget indie, UNLISTED OWNER, has come back on the market as DIRECTORS CUT. We chat with its realtor, young and upcoming genre filmmaker Jed Brian.
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Burning Bulb Publishing has released Champaign filmmaker Jeff Kacmarynski’s long-unseen first feature, DISSOLUTION. We speak with the writer/director about it and upcoming projects.
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The most recent feature-length production from Dreamscape Cinema of Champaign, BAD COMPANY, exploded into the domestic marketplace through MTI Home Video on August 28, 2018.
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And now, for student filmmaking that is completely different! Vinegar Syndrome recruits the forgotten UI action opus SHOT for another tour of duty on Blu-ray disc beginning August 28, 2018. This is our verdict…
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On rare occasion, the strange little dreams we dream at MFHQ come true! Vinegar Syndrome will re-release the infamous UIUC student-made film SHOT in high definition later in 2018. Who knew?!?
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Broken Shadow Entertainment of Taylorville, headed by Tye Wilson, is on the board with the 2016 DVD release of their thriller I HEARD THE DARKNESS. What manner of adventure awaits their viewers next?
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Florida-based label Maverick Entertainment Group has slated the drama BEFORE ‘I DO’ from Predestined Arts & Entertainment of Springfield, IL, for home video release on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
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It is our sworn duty to trot out the evidence of independent filmmaking in Champaign-Urbana when the opportunity arises. The Suede Chain finally got back together, so therefore we discuss their DREAM WHEEL CIRCUS.
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In the return of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about CONSUMED coming to the Art, the fate of a few thousand Rentertainments, and a pair of festivals with deadlines!
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