C-U Blogfidential

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we encourage you to attend “Ebertfest” but also entertain concurrent happenings in the C-U this next week, not to mention acknowledge the movies now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we reveal DISCONNECT on DVD, marvel at Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival timing, give big ups to Big Muddy Film Festival, and volunteer the scoop on what movies are now playing/renting near you!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Our friend Alaric Rocha of Blue Bassoon Pictures in Chicago has completed his Super 8 movie short, WINTER, which he and a local crew filmed in the Decatur outskirts a year ago.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We collect, embed, and dissect a handful of recent videos made by current and former members of Illini Film & Video at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!

Despite nearly all-new subject matter discussed by fresh hosts and correspondents, this is pretty much your mother and father’s AT THE MOVIES set to a slightly more rapid beat. And it makes us happy.

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we announce the World Premiere of Dreamscape Cinema’s DISPOSABLE, pass along film fest deadlines, prove our commitment to print, and list what movies are now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we announce Dreamscape Cinema film classes, prepare for the return of AT THE MOVIES, welcome new writers to the fold, and list what movies are now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we peer through THE WINDOW INTO TIME, pontificate THE CITY BEYOND, take a DUCKMAN VS. ZOMBIES hit, drop a LGBT video opp, and update what movies are now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we find the release date for PRESS START 2, lament a lost student film, spill on a new Illini Film & Video project, and give up what movies are now playing/renting near you!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s now take a quick look at the work of Johnnie May and Danny Plotnick that typifies the wide-ranging variety once presented at Champaign-Urbana’s Freaky Film Festival from 1997 to 2000.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s take a quick look at the award-winning entries that typified the horrific variety presented at this year’s Freeky Creek Short Film Festival: BEDTIME FOR TIMMY, SIDE EFFECT, and THE WINTER STALKER!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get your first good look at the no-budget, southern Illinois indie FARM, and then peruse exclusive behind-the-scene photos courtesy of the filmmakers!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about FARM, ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1972, “GEEKS AND ZOMBIES,” the Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival, and what movies are now playing/renting near you! Holy guacamole!

Scientist and author Sandra Steingraber and Toronto filmmaker Chanda Chevannes have scheduled the first stop of their Illinois tour for the new documentary, LIVING DOWNSTREAM, at the Art Theater in Champaign on Saturday, October 16, 2010.

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about LEADING LADIES, REVOLTING, FARM, RAGSTONE AVENUE, CONTAGION, THE LORD IS NOT ON TRIAL HERE TODAY, and what movies are now playing/renting near you! Hot damn!