Calendar du C-U: June 24-30
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.
~~~~~
PLAYING THIS WEEK
6/24/16-6/30/16
MILESTONES
Happy Birthday to … Tuesday, June 28: Gladys Kephart (actress, ZACK AND THE MOUNTAIN MAN, Pens to Lens 2014) … Thursday, June 30: Andrea Aarons (future cover model, C-U Confidential) … celebrate!
Passings … Thursday, June 16: Trevor Alan Taylor, 34 (employee, Boardman’s Art Theatre/crew member, WELCOME TO TOLONO, ACT YOUR AGE) … you will be missed.
20 Years Ago … June 14-27, 1996: After celebrating a grand opening in March and establishing a business model of serving alcohol and pizza with second-run Hollywood fare, the operators of the Brew & View at the Thunderbird team with The Octopus alternative weekly to develop signature events. Their inaugural show, “The 1st Annual Octopus Sci Fi Film Festival,” presents several science fiction classics and favorites across a two-week summer stretch at Urbana’s Thunderbird Theater, touted in its previous first-run era as having the largest movie screen in Champaign-Urbana. Selected by Octopus publisher Paul Young with assistance from his staff, including future New Art Film Festival program director Jason Pankoke, the marathon pairs episodes from the 1940 serial incarnation of pulp hero “The Shadow” with a choice roster: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), DR. STRANGELOVE, INVADERS FROM MARS (1953), THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE ROAD WARRIOR, THE TERMINATOR, and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953). All films are projected from 35 and 16 mm prints rented through various agencies from all over the United States. Similar shows of a more esoteric bent would follow the well-received “Sci Fi” experience over the next year, ceasing in mid-1997 after the Brew & View’s closure.
FLICKER OF THE WEEK
In the spirit of our Confidential Almanac entry above, we shine the “FOW” seal into the night skies above the Art Theater Co-op to mark the not-very-secret location of “Big Screen Noir,” a new retrospect series beginning on Fri., 7/1. Six vintage and contemporary hallmarks in the genre will provide audiences a sampling of the storytelling form over a two month period: THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (starting 7/1) with Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles, the latter directing; THE KILLING (1956; starting 7/8) with Sterling Hayden and directed by Stanley Kubrick; CAPE FEAR (1962; starting 7/28) with Robert Mitchum and directed by J. Lee Thompson; KISS ME DEADLY (1955; starting 8/5) starring Ralph Meeker and directed by Robert Aldrich; DOG DAY AFTERNOON (starting 8/26) with Al Pacino and directed by Sidney Lumet; and THE BIG LEBOWSKI (starting 9/2) with Jeff Bridges and directed by Joel Coen. The Art is offering a $36 festival pass exclusively through their Web site that will save you $2 per film ticket as well as award the bearer a free small popcorn at each show. If you have ever picked up our C-U Confidential digest, you know we are fans of this milieu and pretty much fated to recommend it!
NOW PLAYING
@ The Art Theater Co-op, Champaign, IL: LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, WEINER (6/24 on), THE LOBSTER (6/25, 6/27-628, 6/30), The Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation and the Art present “Cinema Judaica” feat. TIKKUN (6/26, 7:30 p.m.), Women on Top series: SALAAM BOMBAY! w/discussion (6/29, 7 p.m.)
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL: The News-Gazette Film Series presents Reader’s Choice – IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (6/25, 1 & 7 p.m.)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL: INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (3-D & 2-D), FINDING DORY (3-D & 2-D) (6/24 on), THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (6/30, 7 p.m.), “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 BORN TO BE BLUE (6/24, 6/26, 7 p.m.), SINGLES (6/24, 10:30 p.m.), THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT (6/25, 7 p.m.), THE SEARCHERS (6/30, 7 p.m.)
@ Route 66 Twin Drive-In, Springfield, IL: FINDING DORY, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (Screen 1), INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Screen 2) (6/24 on)
@ The Lincoln Grand 8, Lincoln, IL: FREE STATE OF JONES, INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (3-D & 2-D), THE SHALLOWS, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, THE CONJURING 2, FINDING DORY (3-D & 2-D), NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (6/24 on), GOOSEBUMPS (6/25, 6/28, 10 a.m.), THE BFG (6/30, 7 p.m.), THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (3-D) (6/30, 8:15 p.m.)
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL: FINDING DORY (6/24-6/26, 6/29)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL: X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (6/24-6/26), ZOOTOPIA (6/25, 11 a.m., free)
@ Harvest Moon Twin Drive-In, Gibson City, IL: FINDING DORY (Screen 1), INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (Screen 2) (6/24 on)
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL: Save the Lorraine Foundation presents LONDON HAS FALLEN (6/24-6/26)
@ Carmike 13, Champaign, IL: FREE STATE OF JONES, INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (3-D & 2-D), THE SHALLOWS, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, THE CONJURING 2, FINDING DORY (3-D & 2-D), NOW YOU SEE ME 2, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, WARCRAFT (6/24 on), HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (6/30, 10 a.m.), THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (6/30, 7 & 9:30 p.m.), THE BFG (6/30, 7:10 & 10 p.m.), THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (6/30, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m.)
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL: FREE STATE OF JONES, INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (IMAX 3-D, 3-D & 2-D), THE NEON DEMON, THE SHALLOWS, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, THE CONJURING 2, FINDING DORY (3-D & 2-D), LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, ME BEFORE YOU, NOW YOU SEE ME 2, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, WARCRAFT, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (6/24 on), THE PEANUTS MOVIE (6/24, 10 a.m.), Goodrich presents “Flashback Cinema” feat. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (6/26, 6/29, 2 & 7 p.m.), Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies, and Warner Bros. present WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (6/26, 2 p.m.; 6/29, 7 p.m.), HORTON HEARS A WHO (6/27-6/29, 10 a.m.), Fathom Events and RiffTrax.com present “MST3K Reunion Show” (6/28, 7 p.m., live simulcast), Fathom Events presents Metropolitan Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore (6/29, 7 p.m., encore presentation)
@ AMC Village Mall 6, Danville, IL: INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (3-D & 2-D), THE SHALLOWS, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, THE CONJURING 2, FINDING DORY (3-D & 2-D), NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (6/24 on)
@ Family Video, Champaign-Urbana, IL: MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, KNIGHT OF CUPS, THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY, ANESTHESIA, more! (6/21 on)
@ Centerbrook Drive-In, Martinsville, IN: FINDING DORY, THE JUNGLE BOOK (6/24-6/26, 6/28, 6/30)
<><><><><>
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
9/6: Blu-ray release: GRANDVIEW, U.S.A.*
+ Kino Lorber Studio Classics, New York, NY
10/21-10/23: 2nd annual Dark History & Horror Convention
@ Fluid Event Center, Champaign, IL
10/22: Normal Short Film Fest*
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
NEW! 11/4-5: 15th annual Route 66 International Film Festival
@ Capital City Bar & Grill, Springfield, IL
COMMUNITY FILM SERIES
Illini Union Board presents “Summer Quad Cinema Series”
@ Anniversary Plaza, Main Quad, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 9 p.m., free
7/7: THE BOSS; 8/4: THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE; 8/21: “Quad Day” edition – CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
Monticello Parks & Recreation presents “Monticello Movie Nights”
@ downtown location TBA, Monticello, IL, activities 6-8 p.m., film 8 p.m., free
7/1: MINIONS; 7/15: THE PEANUTS MOVIE; 7/29: INSIDE OUT; 8/5: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
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
Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce presents “2016 Movies in the Park Series”
@ Wabash Park, Rantoul, IL, dusk
7/15: INSIDE OUT; 8/12: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2
~~~~~
If you have items that you would like us to list in the Calendar, please send relevant dates, start/end times, locations, event descriptions, and ticket prices to cuconfidential [at] gmail [dot] com.
Compiled by Jason Pankoke
~~~~~
“Calendar du C-U”
© 2016 Jason Pankoke/C-U Blogfidential.