Mr. JaPan goes flashbacking again as he prepares for the “Cut & Paste” ‘zine culture symposium at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during which he will participate as panelist, commentator, and cut-and-paste fiend. Hand him that glue, quick!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The Elvis Brothers never *really* left the building, as C-U Blogfidential has discovered! Dig on these vintage Elvis Bros. videos, one of which features the former Cinema Theater of Urbana as a backdrop.
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Do like the kids used to do and watch Japanese monster movies and cartoons to start your weekend! Well, sort of. Allow us to explain via episodes of Neon Harbor Entertainment’s NINJA THE MISSION FORCE and DEJA VIEW series!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We reveal the front cover of a new book about the Art Theater and divulge a bit about its contents, too!
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EXTRA! Interview with the general manager of the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL!
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Time to make some noise about ourselves, dearest readers! Coming soon are the Drunken Zombie Film Festival in Peoria on November 1-2, 2013, which we’re co-sponsoring, and the new Art Theater history book, which your editor designed. Look out for them and the seventh issue of C-U Confidential, too!
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Fresh links lead us to consider once again the sound-on-film technology developed by Joseph Tykocinski-Tykociner nearly a century ago, especially since the fruits of his labor are finally available for study.
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How interesting a twist of fate will this be? It seems our work has value to the team behind Explore C-U, a new UI-based project intended to curate local history and art in an easily accessible and interactive manner through Web browser and cell phone. “Yes,” we say!
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“Lost” underground local cinema has recently crawled its way onto the Internet in the forms of THORAXX II: THE BREEDING and ONE ROACH FOR SEAMUS, distinct species with a common genus (Pi Omega Omega) and family (Mike ‘n Molly’s).
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We love you all, but we also love not killing ourselves. Find out what will be happening at the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters while C-U Blogfidential kind-of-sort-of takes the rest of the summer off!
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If you think we’re going to dredge up the story about Brendan Fraser and co. filming the Harvard graduation scene in WITH HONORS on the UIUC Main Quad in 1993 … well, we’ll get to that one later. Right now, let’s talk real life instead of reel life.
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C-U Confidential and the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, invite you to take a survey of locally-made cinema today, Friday, April 12, 2013, during the fourth annual New Art Film Festival. It’s bound to surprise!
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It’s time for the Champaign-Urbana community to give itself a boost in supporting the integration of film and media production into our very fabric of being. That includes teaching the kids that making movies is alright.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s NEW all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about Dreamscape Cinema budget fundraising, Nina Paley surprises, and the 75th birthday of the Normal Theater!
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In the second helping of our brain-food-for-thought regarding the survival of local movie theaters, we conjure the ghosts of brick-and-mortar cinemas past complete with a visual ode to downtown Champaign’s former Rialto Theater.
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