C-U Blogfidential

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about our brand-new YouTube channel, the wrap of MY DOG THE SPACE TRAVELLER, a NCSA opportunity for students, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Skip Huston dons his professorial guise once again to surprise us with a new round of “overlooked films” during his next Richland Community College class which will begin tonight, Thursday, June 17, 2010, at the Avon Theater in Decatur.

The sixth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, produced by Eastern Illinois University and highlighting the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, will take place November 12-14, 2009, in downstate Charleston. And, yes, we admit that we apparently counted wrong last year so you can put away that bayonet, young man.

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking for a candidate to fill the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies.

C-U Blogfidential shares some ideas about places to go, people to meet, and events to attend, because we are firm believers in moderating one’s time in front of one’s video screens at the home front.

A series of presentations to showcase the creative, non-commercial output of post-World War II filmmakers in Europe to help the intercontinental “Marshall Plan” meet its goals will be held September 24-26, 2009, on the Unviersity of Illinois campus under the title, “Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948–1953,” hosted by Sandra Schulberg.

It’s not often that one sees such a potluck served here at C-U Blogfidential, but here you go … all nine courses’ worth.

Six rather different selections will also be highlighted during “Supernatural Cinema Film Class” at the Avon Theatre in Decatur, IL, which begins on August 13, 2009.

Six selections will be highlighted during “Silent Movie Classics – Part 5,” the next film class at the Avon Theater in Decatur, IL, which begins on August 13, 2009.

“Americana at the Movies” will be the theme of the next Richland Community College film class taught by Skip Huston at the Avon Theatre in Decatur, IL, beginning on Thursday, January 29, 2009.

There’s lots of unique movie events this month in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond. Why not stop reading this cheeky little blurb and go read the detailed post instead? You might like it.

The fourth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, produced by Eastern Illinois University and highlighting the work of actress Joan Allen, will take place November 4-8, 2008, in downstate Charleston.

COBB FIELD, the latest production from Callan Films of Effingham, IL, will have its local premiere at the Rosebud Theatre in Effingham on Monday, October 20, 2008.

Coming Soon: Champaign Movie Makers meeting @ Shatterglass Studios, Urbana, IL (9/9/08), Beyond Normal Films “Choice” series @ Normal Theater, Normal, IL (9/9-28/08), IPRH Film Series @ 62 Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Urbana, IL (9/11-11/13/08), and “Politics at the Movies” class @ Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (9/11-10/30/08).

University of Illinois alumnus and veteran documentary filmmaker Frederick Marx will speak about and present clips from his work at the Channing-Murray Foundation in Urbana, IL, on Sunday, September 7, 2008.