Calendar: November 23-29, 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!
11/24: Shauna Miller (actress, WRITER’S BLOCK, Pens to Lens 2017)
11/28: Ryan Mitchelle (editor, THE LAST SHARKNADO)
CONFIDENTIAL ALMANAC | Dates in Film Culture History
45 Years Ago … Friday, November 16, 1973: Television and movie actor Ross Hagen makes a personal appearance at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Champaign at 7 p.m. to promote the regional opening of his newest picture, BAD CHARLESTON CHARLIE. Based loosely on the life of 1920s coal miner and bootlegger Charlie Birger, whose gang battled rival groups as well as politicians and the Ku Klux Klan in southern Illinois before he was arrested, tried, and hanged, the period comedy was partly filmed in Champaign County three years ago this month but held up for some time from general release. Problematic investors and the resulting nonpayment of wages for many actors and technical crew members by local outfit Studio 9 Productions, which partnered with Hagen’s Triforum Inc. company to make CHARLIE, attracted a lawsuit that was detailed in the May 12, 1971, edition of the Daily Illini as well as the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., last year. With the air cleared, the feature has been in distribution since June through International Cinema Corporation and is now playing at 17 area cinemas, according to a report on p.19 of today’s Urbana Courier. Hagen advises writer Jim Hopwood in an interview that the state of Illinois “is a beautiful place to shoot movies and you people around here should look into encouraging more of it.” Much of Hagen’s core team on CHARLIE – himself, director Ivan Nagy, producer Martin D. Wright of Studio 9, actors Kelly Thordsen, Hoke Howell, and Eric Lidberg, and cinematographer Michael Neyman – have another gang-on-a-crime-spree caper in the wings called PUSHING UP DAISIES, this one coming from the Cannon Group.
LOCAL FILMS, ETC. | Support Your Media Storytellers
@ Champaign Public Library, Champaign, IL
Champaign Movie Makers* meeting, “Acting for Film Panel,” Robeson Pavilion Room B (11/26, 7 p.m., free)
@ Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
14th annual Embarras Valley Film Festival*, “Student Films,” Lumpkin Hall Auditorium (11/28, 3-7 p.m., free)
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ The Art Theater, Champaign, IL
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (11/23 on), New York International Children’s Film Festival “Kid Flicks One” (11/24, 2 p.m., free), Member Screening: MONROVIA, INDIANA (11/26, 7 p.m.), “CatVideoFest” (11/27, 7 p.m.), THE EXORCIST director’s cut (11/23-11/24, 10 p.m.)
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
CREED II, RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, ROBIN HOOD, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDENWALD, THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB, THE GRINCH, INSTANT FAMILY, THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS, OVERLORD, A STAR IS BORN, WIDOWS (11/23 on), POKEMON THE MOVIE: THE POWER OF US (11/24, 12:55 p.m.; 11/26, 11/28, 7 p.m.), 2.0 (11/28, 6:30 p.m.; 11/29, 2:30 & 6 p.m.), MIRAI (11/29, 7 & 8 p.m.)
@ Family Video, Champaign-Urbana, IL
CRAZY RICH ASIANS, BLINDSPOTTING, DOG DAYS, THE DOMESTICS, KIN, BEYOND THE SKY, more! (11/20 on)
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL
BOY ERASED, CREED II, THE FRONT RUNNER, GREEN BOOK, RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, ROBIN HOOD, BEAUTIFUL BOY, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDENWALD, THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB, THE GRINCH, INSTANT FAMILY, THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS, WIDOWS (11/23 on), A CHRISTMAS STORY (11/25, 11/28), POKEMON THE MOVIE: THE POWER OF US (11/26, 11/28, 7 p.m.), MIRAI (11/29, 7 p.m.), MEOW WOLF: ORIGIN STORY (11/29, 7:30 p.m.)
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
FIRST MAN (11/23, 7 p.m.; 11/24, 1 & 7 p.m.; 11/25, 1 p.m.)
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
CREED II, RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, WIDOWS, FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDENWALD, THE GRINCH, INSTANT FAMILY (11/23 on)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDENWALD, WIDOWS (11/23 on)
@ The Lincoln Grand 8, Lincoln, IL
CREED II, RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, ROBIN HOOD, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDENWALD, THE GRINCH, INSTANT FAMILY (11/23 on), SOUL SURFER (11/23, 11/26-11/29, 2 p.m.; 11/24-11/25, 10 a.m.; free)
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL
CRAZY RICH ASIANS (11/23-11/25)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (11/23-11/25), MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (11/24-11/25), THE BISHOP’S WIFE (11/27), MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947; 11/29)
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (11/23-11/25, 11/28)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS (11/23-11/25)
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
3/21-3/24, 2019
29th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
4/4-4/11, 2019
21st Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI
4/10-4/14, 2019
21st 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. Fri., 7 & 10 p.m. Sat., free w/i-card
11/29, 11/30: THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS; 12/7, 12/8: CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
The News-Gazette Film Series
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 1 & 7 p.m.
12/17: THE BISHOP’S WIFE (7 p.m. only); 12/18: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947; 7 p.m. only); 12/19: WHITE CHRISTMAS (7 p.m. only); 12/20: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951; 7 p.m. only); 12/21-12/22: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (7 p.m. only on 12/21); 1/12/19: CHARADE; 2/9/19: TOP HAT; 3/9/19: GASLIGHT; 4/6/19: METROPOLIS; 5/25/19: THE THIN MAN; 6/22/19: ON THE WATERFRONT; 7/13: STAGE DOOR
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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