C-U Blogfidential

Even though two out of the three pictured here are on a hard pause, we wear our DIY doings like badges of honor. You can too, citizens and alumni of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!

Select movie listings for April 17-23, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for April 10-16, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

A pair of documentaries with downstate Illinois ties, WHITE HEAT/BLACK ASHES and WHERE ARE YOU, JAY BENNETT?, are close to completion. If interested and able, why not nudge them along?

Select movie listings for April 3-9, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for March 27-April 2, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Our limited series on filmmaking books from the Michael Wiese Productions library continues with ‘Stock Footage + Everything under the Sun’ by James Forsher, reviewed by Jason Pankoke.

The scenes from a film culture that we have been watching mostly from afar fill us with mild disenchantment instead of wonder. And then we were ordered to self-shelter and keep personal spaces to ourselves. Joy.

Select movie listings for March 20-26, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!

Select movie listings for March 13-19, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!

We relaunch our limited series on filmmaking books from the Michael Wiese Productions library begins with a complete posting on ‘Writing for the Cut’ by Greg Loftin, reviewed by Daniel Tice.

Select movie listings for March 6-12, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!

It has been a long while since a feature-length project has emerged from the WILL-TV studios in Urbana, so we welcome ILLINOIS COUNTRY with open arms. It airs tonight, March 6, 2020, at 7:30 p.m.

Select movie listings for February 28-March 5, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!

The Workshop Films Collective, a newer group devoted to developing technical skills and honing storytelling concepts, is led by John Isberg and gathers weekly at Shatterglass Studios in Champaign, IL.