Calendar: February 18-24, 2022
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!
2/21: Eric Benson (producer, Damian Duffy Hates Everything Forever podcast, Champaign-Sadorus, IL)
2/21: Ralph Roether III (marketing designer, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL)
2/24: Bill Gorrell (owner, DigiWorks Digital Media Production, Bement, IL)
FIELD REPORT DU HQ | From Wherever It May Be Said
As I revealed last week, I’d like to publish a new issue of C-U Confidential digest this year. As I haven’t revealed before, I’d also like to put on the belated 10th New Art Film Festival even though our venues are being flighty with staying open consistently and as long as my interest in it doesn’t run completely dry. As you’ve probably figured by now, I’d even like to extend the life of C-U Blogfidential and its social media for a while longer. As you may or may not want to hear, all this reel life has an ill-defined expiration date on my conscience and the packages will be stamped accurately when I’m ready. At long last, real life has to move back ahead of reel life. This may spell the ultimate end of everything I’ve been trying to do for more than 20 years, and I may have to accept it. I should prioritize the continued needs of Ma JaPan and my stepfather, even though both are now under skilled nursing care, my continued and tenuous work with the Urbana office that I know will not last indefinitely, and the back-breaking effort to corral the house on the edge of an American small town into saleable shape almost all by myself, which I’m not looking forward to given what I experienced a year ago in vacating the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters in ungodly short order. Did you even realize that I haven’t been a citizen of Champaign for almost 13 months now? Do you care? I have to because, whether it’s all talk-talk or action, it’s my life. Don’t forget about yours truly or the Confidential project, dearest readers, unless you already have. Yet, I can move on, too.
Tomorrow would have been Pappy JaPan’s 95th birthday and, on Monday, my Grandma Ski’s 100th. They have both been gone for some time. I miss them and a multitude of other family members, friends, places, and things that used to make my life a lot happier and more fulfilled. “Long in the tooth” doesn’t come close to describing accurately what my existence today is like, forget the lingering effects of the current climate in our communities and country. I feel ragged at age 51. Adaptation may be the only way to progress to a better and healthier place, but the script doesn’t write itself. “SMH,” indeed.
LOCAL FILMS & EVENTS | Support Your Media Storytellers
@ Gregory Hall, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Illini Film & Video* meeting, Room 223 (2/21, 7 p.m.)
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
(Closed 2/18 due to snowstorm) THE CURSED, DOG, UNCHARTED, BLACKLIGHT, DEATH ON THE NILE, ENCANTO, JACKASS FOREVER, LICORICE PIZZA, MARRY ME, MOONFALL, SCREAM, SING 2, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, WEST SIDE STORY (2/19 on), STUDIO 666 (2/24 on)
@ Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Illini Union Board presents “Spring 2022 Weekend Films” feat. NO TIME TO DIE, Pine Lounge, 1st floor (2/18-2/19, 7 p.m.; free w/i-card)
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
(Closed 2/18 due to snowstorm) THE CURSED, DOG, UNCHARTED, BLACKLIGHT, DEATH ON THE NILE, JACKASS FOREVER, LICORICE PIZZA, MARRY ME, MOONFALL, SCREAM, SING 2, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2/19 on), Turner Classic Movies presents LADY SINGS THE BLUES 50th anniversary (2/20, 3 & 7 p.m.; 2/23, 7 p.m.), HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2/20, 11:30 a.m., 3 & 7 p.m.; 2/23, 7 p.m.)
@ Redbox, Champaign-Urbana, IL
DEATH OF A TELEMARKETER, ENCANTO, LOCKED DOWN, SETTLERS, SUPER INTELLIGENCE, more! (2/15 on) Online rentals
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
The News-Gazette Film Series presents IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (2/19, 1 & 7 p.m.), “The Arthouse Experience” w/Sanford Hess feat. ADAPTATION (2/23, 7 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 Parkway Pointe 8, Springfield, IL
Springfield Art Association presents Molly Schlich Independent | International Film Series feat. THE RESCUE (2/20, 1 & 4 p.m.; 2/22, 7 p.m.)
@ AMC Classic Village Mall 6, Danville, IL
(Closed 2/18 due to snowstorm) DOG, UNCHARTED, DEATH ON THE NILE, MARRY ME, JACKASS FOREVER, MOONFALL (2/19 on)
@ AMC Peru Mall 8, Peru, IL
DOG, UNCHARTED, DEATH ON THE NILE, MARRY ME, JACKASS FOREVER, SING 2, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2/19 on)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL
DOG, BLACKLIGHT, DEATH ON THE NILE (2/18-2/20)
@ The Fischer Theatre, Danville, IL
No movies this week!
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL
Private rentals for the week.
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
DRIVE MY CAR (2/18-2/19, 2/24), THIRTY-NINE COUNTIES: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE LAND OF LINCOLN* screening & discussion with retired Illinois congressman Glenn Poshard (2/20, 7 p.m.)
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL
UNCHARTED (2/18-2/20)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
THE 355 (2/18-2/20)
@ Streator Eagle 6, Streator, IL
DOG, UNCHARTED, BLACKLIGHT, DEATH ON THE NILE, JACKASS FOREVER, MARRY ME, MOONFALL (2/18 on), STUDIO 666 (2/24 on)
@ VIP Lincoln Grand 6, Lincoln, IL
DOG, UNCHARTED, JACKASS FOREVER, MARRY ME, MOONFALL, SCREAM, SING 2 (2/18 on)
@ VIP Roxy Cinemas, Ottawa, IL
DOG, UNCHARTED, DEATH ON THE NILE, JACKASS FOREVER, MARRY ME, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2/18 on)
NOW PLAYING | Midwest
@ Norris University Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
B-Fest 2022, McCormick Auditorium (2/18, 6 p.m.-2/19, 6 p.m.) Schedule
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
NEW! 2/26
39th Insect Fear Film Festival
@ University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (virtual event)
3/31-4/3
32nd Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival
@ Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
4/7-4/17
24th annual Wisconsin Film Festival
@ University of Wisconsin, etc., Madison, WI
4/8-4/10
Dead in Decatur presents “The Art of Fear”
@ Heroic Age Art Center, Mt. Zion, IL
4/20-4/23
22nd Roger Ebert’s Film Festival
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
9/22-10/2
40th Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Chicago, IL
COMMUNITY & CAMPUS SERIES | Champaign-Urbana area
“The Arthouse Experience Film Series” curated by Sanford Hess
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.
2/23: ADAPTATION; 3/23: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS; 4/6: BIG NIGHT; 5/25: EIGHTH GRADE; 6/1: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Illini Radio Group presents “Rewind 92.5 Film Series”/“Mix 94.5 Throwback Thursdays”*
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.
3/21: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK; 4/4: FACE/OFF; 5/23: MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME; 6/30: WAYNE’S WORLD; 7/14: STARSHIP TROOPERS
Illini Union Board presents “Spring 2022 Weekend Films”
@ Pine Lounge, 1st floor, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat, free w/i-card
2/18-2/19: NO TIME TO DIE; 2/25-2/26: ETERNALS; 3/ 4-3/5: ENCANTO; 3/11-3/12: THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS; 3/18-3/19: SING 2; 3/25-3/26: HOUSE OF GUCCI; 4/1-4/2: GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE; 4/8-4/9: SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME; 4/15-4/16: A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN; 4/22-4/23: JACKASS FOREVER; 4/29-4/30: RUMBLE
Springfield Art Association presents the 30th annual Molly Schlich Independent | International Film Series
@ AMC Classic Springfield 12, Springfield, IL, 1 & 4 p.m. Sunday + 7 p.m. Tuesday
2/20, 2/22: THE RESCUE; 2/27, 3/1: RIDERS OF JUSTICE
The News-Gazette Film Series
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 1 & 7 p.m.
2/19: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT; 4/30: DUCK SOUP; 6/25: HIGH NOON; 7/29: TOP HAT
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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