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Select movie listings for November 15-21, 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?

Select movie listings for October 11-17, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for September 13-19, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Image of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Durability is one of many things accomplished in Champaign-Urbana by Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, which celebrates 25 years this week with a diverse program and quality one-film-at-a-time presentation as their trademarks.

Here’s a CUBlog sequel you didn’t see coming! Whether you read or appreciated the original, our revised link-list of Tubi fare illustrating the histories of Ebertfest and Confidential will thrill you.

Roger Ebert’s Film Festival is set to captivate Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, for Year 23 from April 18-22, 2023. Here are the base details and important resources for you to know.

If we can’t have the Art Theater, then we’ll gladly take an “Arthouse Experience” in its place. The program’s first series at the Virginia Theatre ends tonight with a showing of THE WHITE TIGER.

CUBlog resumes posting just in time for the resuscitation of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival! Year 22 launches later tonight at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, and we have the schedule.

We delved into the Tubi platform and retrieved intel on movies from both the history of Ebertfest and the fabric of our very being in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Links aplenty now await you!

The scenes from a film culture that we have been watching mostly from afar fill us with mild disenchantment instead of wonder. And then we were ordered to self-shelter and keep personal spaces to ourselves. Joy.

All systems are go for several cool film events coming to the area! Learn about them and postulate what might become of the orphaned New Art Film Festival now that the Art Theater is a cinematic sitting duck.

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

As movie critics gravitate to on-line podcasts and videos to offer their opinions, several teams in Champaign-Urbana have continued the tradition of televised debate. We share a few examples with you.

Even though the 21st iteration of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival will not arrive until April, fans can get an early look at the first announced selection, A YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN, direct from Poland if they so choose.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY returns to local theaters during the next two weeks in 70mm at the Virginia Theatre and IMAX at the GKC Savoy 16. Read further for more about what you can expect!