Calendar: April 3-9, 2020
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!
4/4: Dakota Pruemer (videographer, Gies College of Business, UIUC, Urbana, IL)
4/4: Kamelya Alexan (director/producer, BEFORE THE FALL, Alexan Production, LLC, Chicago, IL)
4/4: Sara Benson (adjunct assistant professor, School of Information Sciences, UIUC, Champaign, IL)
4/9: Nick Alonzo (director/writer, DA BIG ZIP, Cluck Films, Chicago, IL)
MFHQ MEMO | From Chambana Mendota with Love Resignation
This is the leanest Calendar, isn’t it?
CONFIDENTIAL ALMANAC | Dates in Film Culture History
20 Years Ago … Friday, March 31, 2000: The independent feature LOVE 101 opens at the Goodrich Quality Theaters multiplex in Savoy, Illinois. Filmed on location at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb during the fall semester of 1997 by the Los Angeles-based company Poya Pictures, LOVE 101 is playing 12 consecutive one-week runs in 12 cities in the hopes of attracting an avid younger audience that will be receptive to its non-Hollywood depiction of college life and relationships. Chicago stage talents Michael Muhney, Mary Kay Cook, and Jon Collins lead the cast as students who find themselves in an awkward love triangle amidst the bustle of academia, a scenario loosely based on the personal experiences of writer and director Adrian Fulle. In support of the Savoy booking, he and LOVE 101 actor Will Carpenter visited nearby Champaign-Urbana earlier this week in a rented Chevrolet RV so they could promote the movie to media outlets and the public, handing out greetings and posters as they went. The “Love Tour” wraps once the duo finishes their trek across several hundred miles and five states. Fulle and his Poya partner David J. Miller, who met while enrolled in the film program at Columbia College in Chicago, will then attempt to find distributors in the theatrical and home video markets for their labor of love. RETURN TO ME, the MGM romantic drama that is directed by Chicago comedienne Bonnie Hunt and stars David Duchovny and Minnie Driver, opens at Savoy the day after the final showing of LOVE 101 on Thursday, April 6, a rare case of Illinois-made productions appearing back-to-back in a local cinema.
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
Closed for the week.
@ Family Video, Champaign-Urbana, IL
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, THE GRUDGE, THE CURRENT WAR, VFW, CODA, 2 GRAVES IN THE DESERT, THE DUSTWALKER, LANDFALL, THE MARSHAL, more! (3/31 on)
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL
Closed for the week.
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
Closed for the week.
@ AMC Peru Mall 8, Peru, IL
Closed for the week.
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL
Closed for the week.
@ The Lincoln Family Theater & Community Center, Lincoln, IL
Closed for the week.
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL
Closed for the week.
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
Closed for the week. “Living Room Film Festival” virtual screenings: CORPUS CHRISTI, THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (through 4/5), EXTRA ORDINARY., BACURAU (4/3-4/12) Purchase
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL
Closed for the week.
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
Closed for the week.
@ Roxy Cinemas, Ottawa, IL
Closed for the week.
@ Streator Eagle 6, Streator, IL
Closed for the week.
NOW PLAYING | Midwest
For detailed and curated listings of Chicago-area film presentations and related events, as well as cancellations and postponements due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, please visit the fine folks at Cine-File and subscribe to their definitive “Cine-List” weekly blast.
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
5/22-5/24
INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK* 50th anniversary screenings
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
11/28
SAFETY LAST feat. BIG BUSINESS w/live organ accompaniment by Steven Ball
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.
COMMUNITY & CAMPUS SERIES | Champaign-Urbana area
The News-Gazette Film Series
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 1 & 7 p.m.
5/16: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF; 6/20: FANTASIA
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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