Calendar du C-U: June 3-9
Our unique movie and media Calendar appears every Friday on C-U Blogfidential and caters to the discerning tastes of citizens in the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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PLAYING THIS WEEK
6/3/16-6/9/16
MILESTONES
Happy Birthday to … Friday, June 3: Eleanore Stasheff (filmmaker, MARY CONTRARY), Amanda Baker (videographer, Five Foot Productions) … celebrate!
FLICKER OF THE WEEK
Uh-oh, gang, this particular “FOW” is enriched with vitamins, minerals, and food for thought! Be sure to remind those around you of the movie-going persuasion, including your own good selves, to seek out the intelligent and mature fare often obscured at this time of year by those seasonal CGI storm clouds we know better as “Hollywood blockbusters.” For instance, one might view the Calendar below and consider: the Jodie Foster-directed Wall Street thriller MONEY MONSTER (Sony/TriStar Pictures), starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, which is finishing out its run at the Savoy 16 in Savoy; the period piece THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY (IFC Films), playing at the Normal Theater in Normal and featuring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons in the true story of a brilliant Indian mathematician who attends Cambridge University in the early 1900s; a Jane Austen adaptation from the venerable Whit Stillman, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Amazon Studios/Roadside Attractions), pairing Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny in a lively comedy of manners set in 18th century England and opening today at the Avon Theatre in Decatur; filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s dark and sensuous A BIGGER SPLASH (Fox Searchlight Pictures), entering its second week at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, which revels in the spicy trysts bound to blossom among a quartet of vacationers in Sicily; and the sports drama RACE (Focus Features) about Olympian legend Jesse Owens that is newly available on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. If you really can’t adult right now at a streaming service, video store, or theater near you, relish a seminal era of summer movies past with an Eighties duo you will find to be as entertaining and sophisticated as you might remember, GHOSTBUSTERS and THE PRINCESS BRIDE; Savoy plays each of them twice on Weds., 6/8, for your retro double feature convenience!
NOW PLAYING
@ The Art Theater Co-op, Champaign, IL: A BIGGER SPLASH (6/3 on), The Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation and the Art present “Cinema Judaica” feat. ZERO MOTIVATION (6/5, 7:30 p.m.), THE KARATE KID (6/3, 6/4, 10 p.m.; 6/5, 11:30 a.m.; 6/9, 10 p.m.)
@ Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, Champaign, IL: The Orpheum and Provision Elevator Advertising present “Champaign Cinema under the Stars” feat. THE SANDLOT (6/3, 8:30 p.m.), TURBO (6/4, 8:30 p.m.)
@ Anniversary Plaza, Main Quad, UIUC, Urbana, IL: Illini Union Board presents “Summer Quad Cinema Series” feat. EYE IN THE SKY (6/9, 9 p.m., free)
@ The David S. Palmer Arena, Danville, IL: Vintage Villains and BAPN present Villains Con 2016 (6/3-6/5)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL: LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (3-D & 2-D), X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (6/3 on), “Overlooked Films” classes with Skip Huston (Thursdays, 6/16-8/4, 6:30 p.m., enroll @ Avon)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL: Beyond Normal Films presents THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY (6/3, 6/5, 6/8, 7 p.m.), PURPLE RAIN (6/3, 10:30 p.m.), WORDS AND MUSIC (6/4, 7 p.m.), CARMEN JONES (6/7, 7 p.m.), BOY & THE WORLD (6/9, 7 p.m.)
@ Route 66 Twin Drive-In, Springfield, IL: X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, DEADPOOL (Screen 1), TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (Screen 2) (6/3 on)
@ The Lincoln Grand 8, Lincoln, IL: LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, ME BEFORE YOU, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (3-D & 2-D), ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (3-D & 2-D), THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE, NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING, THE NICE GUYS, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (3-D & 2-D) (6/3 on)
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL: ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (6/3-6/5, 6/8)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL: MONEY MONSTER (6/3-6/5)
@ Harvest Moon Twin Drive-In, Gibson City, IL: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (Screen 1), X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (Screen 2) (6/3-6/5)
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL: Save the Lorraine Foundation presents TRIPLE 9 (6/3-6/5)
@ Carmike 13, Champaign, IL: ME BEFORE YOU, POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (3-D & 2-D), ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (3-D & 2-D), THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK, NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING, THE NICE GUYS, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (3-D & 2-D) (6/3 on), THE CROODS (6/9, 10 a.m.), WARCRAFT (6/9, 7 & 10 p.m.)
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL: LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, ME BEFORE YOU, POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (IMAX 3-D, 3-D & 2-D), ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK, MONEY MONSTER, NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING, THE NICE GUYS, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (6/3 on), Goodrich presents “Flashback Cinema” feat. THE PRINCESS BRIDE (6/5, 6/8, 2 & 7 p.m.), Fathom Events presents “One Night for ONE DROP Imagined by Cirque du Soleil” (6/7, 7 p.m.), Fathom Events and Columbia Pictures present GHOSTBUSTERS (1984; 6/8, 2 & 7 p.m.), WARCRAFT (IMAX 3-D) (6/9, 7 & 9:45 p.m.)
@ AMC Village Mall 6, Danville, IL: ME BEFORE YOU, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (3-D & 2-D), ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (3-D & 2-D), THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (3-D & 2-D) (6/3 on)
@ Family Video, Champaign-Urbana, IL: RACE, GODS OF EGYPT, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, MEMORIA, GLASSLAND, RISE OF THE LEGEND, BLOOD ORANGE, more! (5/31 on)
@ Centerbrook Drive-In, Martinsville, IN: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (6/3-6/5, 6/7, 6/9)
@ The Logan Theatre, Chicago, IL: 23rd annual Chicago Underground Film Festival (through 6/5)
@ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinemas, Chicago, IL: Midwest Independent Film Festival presents MY FRIEND’S RUBBER DUCKY w/filmmakers (6/7, 6 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. Producers Panel, 7:30 p.m. screening)
@ Mike n’ Molly’s, Champaign, IL: Closed
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Locally produced movies and events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Also find out what is “Coming Soon” by hitting the jump below. Go see ‘em, C-U!
COMING SOON
6/18: Save the Lorraine Foundation presents THE BLOB (1958)
@ McFerrin Park Annex, Hoopeston, IL, 8:30 p.m., free/donation
10/21-10/23: 2nd annual Dark History & Horror Convention
@ Fluid Event Center, Champaign, IL
COMMUNITY FILM SERIES
Illini Union Board presents “Summer Quad Cinema Series”
@ Anniversary Plaza, Main Quad, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 9 p.m., free
6/9: EYE IN THE SKY; 7/7: THE BOSS; 8/4: THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE; 8/21: “Quad Day” edition – CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
The News-Gazette Film Series
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 1 & 7 p.m.
6/25: Reader’s Choice – IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD; 7/16: THE AWFUL TRUTH; 8/6: WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke
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