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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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Round and round and round it goes (in the UI-7 schedule) and where it will stop, nobody knows! We provide belated love to the University of Illinois student-made series, FOR THE RECORD.
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Student filmmakers in downstate Illinois are invited to submit their work between now and Friday, October 10, 2014, for possible inclusion in the tenth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL.
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The next meetings of Illini Film & Video will be on Tuesday, September 2, 2014, and Thursday, September 4, 2014, both at 8 p.m. in Room 66 of the UIUC Main Library.
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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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New informants bring their perspectives to the table in highlighting “Ebertfest” 2014. In the second filing, Brian Paris navigates the crest of emotion that greeted LIFE ITSELF.
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New informants bring their perspectives to the table in highlighting “Ebertfest” 2014. In the first filing, editor Jason Pankoke elects for dependency even as an independent.
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: A quartet of thirtysomethings attempt to reconcile past with present by reforming their rock group in the upcoming independent drama WE HAD THIS BAND, filmed in Bloomington-Normal. We have the teaser trailer for you.
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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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The movies do not stop playing today, dearest readers. Read our preview of both THE THINKING MOLECULES OF TITAN premiere this afternoon and the Etc. Film Festival organized by University of Illinois students for next weekend!
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In the first of several consecutive posts wherein your humble editor pulls a Mr. Peabody and goes back in time to facilitate education, he introduces college-era friend Scott Jenkins and the Syfy special CARVERS airing March 4, 2014, on which Jenkins served as producer!
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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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Both Allen Hall/Unit One and the University Laboratory High School at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign welcome veteran documentary producer Frederick Marx to town this week. Events include screenings of his films, JOURNEY FROM ZANSKAR and HOOP DREAMS.
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This may not constitute a “scene” as we’ve been experiencing lately in the C-U, but at the least WE HAD THIS BAND and THE GRAVEYARD MENACE bring some fresh filmmaking blood to Bloomington-Normal!
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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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