Calendar: December 2-8, 2016
Our movie and media Calendar appears every Friday/Saturday on C-U Blogfidential and caters to the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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MILESTONES | Happy Birthday to You!
12/3: Greg Woods (guest contributor, C-U Confidential)
12/6: Andy Due (producer, THE ANDY DUE SHOW)
FLICKER OF THE WEEK | Suggestions in Full-Motion Arts
This week feels like a leftovers week to us – only one wide release, the exorcism yarn INCARNATE, opens today, Fri., 12/2, and it looks to be a turkey-in-the-making – so we’re pointing you in two constructive directions and calling it a Calendar. If you have a pre-Xmas road trip in you, consider attending the “Best of the Midwest Awards” at the Rockit Bar & Grill, 22 W. Hubbard St., Chicago, starting at 7 p.m. on Tues., 12/6; the annual ceremony gives props to the cream of the indie crop produced in the Flyover Zone and is organized by the folks behind the Midwest Independent Film Festival. You may not yet know the films, but any producer worth their salt can potentially gain mileage out of putting in the miles to hit the BMAs for some big-city networking! Runner-up attraction is a rare booking of the Japanese anime classic AKIRA (Funimation Films), which will play a handful of late-night shows at the Art Theater Co-op beginning tonight at 10 p.m. The innovative science fiction/political uprising/body horror epic from 1988 is directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, based on his own sprawling manga series, and involves a brash street teenager named Tetsuo whose psychic powers are inadvertently magnified to catastrophic proportions in an already devastated Tokyo. Not surprisingly, AKIRA is the perfect “bang” to kick off a short run of future-shock thrillers in the coming weeks – because, you know, the impending Trumpocalypse – that will include CHILDREN OF MEN and the “Black & Chrome Edition” of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. “FOW” is hereby fin and, hopefully, we are not.
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ The Art Theater Co-op, Champaign, IL
LOVING (12/2 on), AKIRA (12/2-12/3, 12/7-12/8)
@ Carmike 13, Champaign, IL
INCARNATE, ALLIED, ALMOST CHRISTMAS, ARRIVAL, BAD SANTA 2, DOCTOR STRANGE, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, HACKSAW RIDGE, MOANA, RULES DON’T APPLY, TROLLS (12/2 on)
@ Family Video, Champaign-Urbana, IL
DON’T BREATHE, PETE’S DRAGON, INDIGNATION, THE INTERVENTION, THE WILD LIFE, BAKED IN BROOKLYN, more! (11/29 on)
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL
INCARNATE, ALLIED, ALMOST CHRISTMAS, ARRIVAL,BAD SANTA 2, DOCTOR STRANGE, THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, HACKSAW RIDGE, MOANA, MOONLIGHT, RULES DON’T APPLY, TROLLS (12/2 on), WHITE CHRISTMAS (12/4, 12/7), Metropolitan Opera performs The Magic Flute (12/3, recorded), SPIRITED AWAY (12/4 (dubbed), 12/5 (subtitled)), SHERLOCK: THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE (12/7)
@ Gregory Hall, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Illini Film & Video meeting, Room 205 (12/6, 6 p.m.)
@ Independent Media Center, Urbana, IL
13th (12/2, 7 p.m.)
@ Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Illini Union Board presents “Weekend Films at the Union” feat. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Pine Lounge (12/2, 12/3, 7 p.m., free w/i-card)
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
Reel Deals presents “Films of the Coen Brothers” feat. FARGO (12/2), THE BIG LEBOWSKI (12/3)
Events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Additional “Now Playing” and “Coming Soon” listings appear after the jump!
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NOW PLAYING | The Cities Beyond
@ AMC Village Mall 6, Danville, IL
ALLIED, BAD SANTA 2, DOCTOR STRANGE, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, MOANA, TROLLS (12/2 on)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL
ALLIED, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, MOANA, (12/2 on)
@ The Lincoln Grand 8, Lincoln, IL
ALLIED, ARRIVAL, BAD SANTA 2, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, HACKSAW RIDGE, MOANA, RULES DON’T APPLY, TROLLS (12/2 on)
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL
THE WILD LIFE (12/2-12/4)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
The Littlest Nutcracker (12/2-12/4, live), A MAN CALLED OVE (12/2, 12/4), DIE HARD (12/2), NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (12/3), The Normal Humor Comedy Hour (12/5), THE BISHOP’S WIFE (12/6)
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL
DOCTOR STRANGE (12/2-12/4, 12/7)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
DOCTOR STRANGE (12/2-12/4)
NOW PLAYING | Midwest
@ Centerbrook Drive-In, Martinsville, IN
Closed for the season!
@ Rockit Bar, Chicago, IL
Midwest Independent Film Festival presents “Best of the Midwest Awards 2016” (12/6)
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
2/21/17-2/26/17
39th annual Big Muddy Film Festival
@ Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
3/30/17-4/6/17
19th annual Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI
4/19/17-4/23/17
19th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
COMMUNITY & CAMPUS SERIES | Champaign-Urbana area
Illini Union Board Presents “Weekend Films at the Union”
@ Pine Lounge, Main Level, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m., free w/i-card
12/2, 12/3: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN; 12/9, 12/10: QUEEN OF KATWE
The News-Gazette Film Series
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 1 & 7 p.m.
12/12-12/17: “The Best Christmas Movies Ever!” feat. THE BISHOP’S WIFE, THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE; 1/21/17: DRACULA; 2/4/17: SWING TIME; 3/25/17: THE GENERAL; 4/15/17: DUCK SOUP; 5/27/17: CITIZEN KANE; 6/24/17: HIGH NOON; 7/22/17: THE GOLD RUSH; 8/26/17: THE WIZARD OF OZ
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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