From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: They might rate as the ugliest mugs ever handed out to winners at a local film festival, but to our eyes these Freaky trophies are things of beauty!
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In our continuing quest to educate you on the video unknown, we tell you a bit about Champaign native and Los Angeles independent filmmaker Samuel M. Oldham.
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We can have a little fun every now and then here at C-U Blogfidential, affirmative? A nice, strategic game of chess is in order. Anyone? Anyone?!? Er, if you insist, HAL…
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EXTRA! Interview with the director of short film FIVE.
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: One of the redheaded stepchildren in Paper Opteryx lineage returns home as “The Video Throne” exudes analog angst under the CUBlog banner!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We delved into MFHQ, we survived MFHQ, and we present our MFHQ findings to you, dearest vintage movie theater connoisseurs. The Art Theater Co-op, revealed!
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EXTRA! Interview with the series creator of RE-ELECTION.
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We’re never ones to let good material go wasted … even if we’re a few years late! Here’s a 2004 flashback of former UIUC students, including Illini Film & Video alum Paul Karpenko, making ASSASSINS.
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A flurry of old-school, post-school experiences came back to occupy Mr. JaPan after taking part in a symposium about do-it-yourself print media. In the spirit of the milieu, he cut and pasted together this post just for you.
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Read this, heed this, and then stop paying attention to any electronic screen within your vicinity so you can make it safely to That’s Rentertainment in Campustown. Today is Video Store Day!
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The occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois, inspires Perry C. Morris and friends to celebrate local movie history!
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For something so flat, our former newsletter MICRO-Scope displayed the nascent modern film culture of Champaign-Urbana in multiple dimensions!
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Today, PDF stands for “pretty darn fascinating” as we point you towards a free ePDF promotion of film book publisher Michael Wiese’s unorthodox autobiography, “Onward & Upward.” You can read, dearest readers, can you not?
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Will LIFE ITSELF be one of the rare breakout documentary hits at the box office? Who can say! At least we finally know when we can see it again in Champaign-Urbana after it stunned the Roger Ebert faithful on opening night of “Ebertfest” 2014…
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Two hours from now, a cascade of confidential cinema will course across the screen of the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, courtesy of the fifth New Art Film Festival on Sunday, April 13, 2014!
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