Calendar: October 5-11, 2018
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!
10/4: Cody Prough (filmmaker, KNOCK, KNOCK)
MFHQ MEMO | (Not Quite) From Chambana with Love
As very few of our dearest readers and friends of the local cinema know, your humble editor has been living away from the Twin Cities for more than a year due to parent care. Writing this from a dining room overlooking a screened-in porch and sizeable yard, neither of which could ever be installed at the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters, I have been feeling even more out of place than usual during this semi-exile. It dawned on me a few days ago that I have been a resident of the Bubbly City for a quarter century as of this week, when my brother helped me move belongings from a basement apartment in a farmhouse a few miles outside of Normal to my friend’s place in a complex on the far west end of Champaign. I have now outlasted both of them and, improbably, thousands of other individuals who have come and gone from the area in these 25 years, yet it often feels like I’ve also flown the coop even though I continue to visit the C-U once a month and write to you about our movie culture every single week. Have you noticed? Should I just relocate until this situation is resolved? It’s clear that I don’t have much to celebrate on this “Chambanaversary” since a peculiar asterisk hangs over it all. What does my geographic shift and random trepidation have to do with what goes on at C-U Blogfidential? If we’re being honest, it matters plenty. Feel free to read between the lines right here to see how it all plays out as we continue doing what we do. Cheers.
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ The Art Theater, Champaign, IL
JULIET, NAKED (10/5 on), FIRST MAN preview screening (10/8, 8 p.m., free), ANDREI RUBLEV (10/9, 7 p.m., w/discussion), Shocktober 2018: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW w/shadow cast (10/5-10/6, 10/10-10/11, 10 p.m.)
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
MOANA (re-release), A STAR IS BORN, SHINE, VENOM, CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, CRAZY RICH ASIANS, HELL FEST, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, NIGHT SCHOOL, THE NUN, A SIMPLE FAVOR, SMALLFOOT (10/5 on), FIRST MAN, GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN (10/11 on)
@ Family Video, Champaign-Urbana, IL
THE FIRST PURGE, SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO, LEAVE NO TRACE, THE CATCHER WAS A SPY, THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS, TALES FROM THE HOOD 2, BLUE IGUANA, DEATH RACE: BEYOND ANARCHY, PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH, SUPERNATURAL (s13), more! (10/2 on)
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL
CRY ME A SAD RIVER, A STAR IS BORN, SHINE, VENOM, CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, CRAZY RICH ASIANS, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, HELL FEST, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, LITTLE WOMEN, NIGHT SCHOOL, THE NUN, THE PREDATOR, SEARCHING, A SIMPLE FAVOR, SMALLFOOT (10/5 on), NEITHER WOLF NOR DOG (10/6, 10/8, 10/11), The Metropolitan Opera: Aida (10/6, 11:55 a.m., simulcast; 10/10, 6:30 p.m., recorded), HALLOWEEN (1978; 10/7, 10/10), THE DAWN WALL (10/8, 7 p.m.), DOCTOR WHO: New Season Premiere (10/10-10/11, 7:30 p.m.), FIRST MAN (10/11 on)
@ Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Illini Union Board presents “Weekend Films at the Union” feat. THE FIRST PURGE, Pine Lounge (10/5-10/6, 7 p.m., free w/i-card)
@ Spurlock Museum, UIUC, Urbana, IL
AEMS presents AsiaLENS Documentary/Film Series feat. ART IN SMOG (10/11, 7 p.m., free)
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 Classic Village Mall 6, Danville, IL
A STAR IS BORN, VENOM, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, NIGHT SCHOOL, THE NUN, SMALLFOOT (10/5 on)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL
A STAR IS BORN, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION, SMALLFOOT (10/5 on), “Great Leading Men – Part 2” classes with Skip Huston (Thursdays, 9/20-11/8, 6:30 p.m., enroll @ Avon)
@ The Harvest Moon Twin Drive-in, Gibson City, IL
SMALLFOOT (Screen 1), THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS (Screen 2) (10/5-10/7)
@ The Lincoln Grand 8, Lincoln, IL
A STAR IS BORN, VENOM, CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, NIGHT SCHOOL, SMALLFOOT, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION (10/5 on), FIRST MAN, GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN (10/11 on)
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (10/5-10/7)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
Manhattan Short Film Festival 2018 (10/5-10/7), THE EXORCIST (10/5-10/6), Ethnographic Film Series: KIKI (10/8, 7 p.m., free, w/discussion), FRANKENSTEIN & BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN double feature (10/9), music concert feat. pianist George Winston (10/11)
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL
SMALLFOOT (10/5-10/7, 10/10)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS (10/5-10/7)
@ Route 66 Twin Drive-in, Springfield, IL
Closed for the season!
NOW PLAYING | Midwest
@ AMC River East 21, etc., Chicago, IL
54th annual Chicago International Film Festival (10/10-10/21)
@ AMC Castleton Square 14, etc., Indianapolis, IN
27th annual Heartland Film Festival (10/11-10/21)
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
10/28
2nd annual ChamPain Indie Horror Festival
@ Independent Media Center, Urbana, IL
10/29
9th annual New Art Film Festival*
@ The Art Theater, Champaign, IL
11/2
THE STRIPPER RIPPER* reprise
@ Vintage Villains, Danville, IL, 4 & 8 p.m.
11/2-11/3
17th annual Route 66 Film Festival
@ Capital City Bar & Grill, Springfield, IL
11/16-11/18
4th Dark History & Horror Convention
@ Garden Hotel, Urbana, IL
4/10-4/14, 2019
21st Roger Ebert’s Film Festival
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
COMMUNITY & CAMPUS SERIES | Champaign-Urbana area
AEMS presents AsiaLENS Documentary/Film Series
@ Spurlock Museum, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m., free
10/11: ART IN SMOG; 11/8: MRS. B, A NORTH KOREAN WOMAN
Illini Union Board Presents “Weekend Films at the Union”
@ Pine Lounge, Main Level, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m. Fri., 7 & 10 p.m. Sat., free w/i-card
10/5, 10/6: THE FIRST PURGE; 10/12, 10/13: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU; 10/19, 10/20: ANT-MAN AND THE WASP; 10/26, 10/27: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3; 11/2, 11/4: BLACKkKLANSMAN; 11/9, 11/10: CRAZY RICH ASIANS; 11/29, 11/30: THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS; 12/7, 12/8: CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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