Archive for the 'Public Events' Category
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Trick or treat! Five indie horror flicks originating in or adjacent to the meat-and-potatoes midsection of Illinois make the cut in our new marathon report. Come along for the haywire hayride, hardy souls!
Posted in Area Festivals, Article du C-U, Champaign Movie Makers, Media Coverage, Production Updates, Public Events, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on Wave of terror SLAYS the state
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
We’ve finally completed the chronology of C-U Confidential and MICRO-FILM events on the ‘Picture Shows du C-U’ page. It only took us 12 months to get back to it, a-hem. Check it out!
Posted in Area Festivals, C-U Confidential Shows, Public Events | Comments Off on ‘Shows’ updated on anniversary
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
Where have all the good times gone? That is one of several major understatements for today. Do your civic duty, C-Uvians, and then consider whether our film culture can rebuild after the drought.
Posted in Area Festivals, C-U Confidential Shows, JP Confidential, MICRO-FILM du C-U, Ones That Got Away?, Public Events, Sad Places, The Old School | Comments Off on NAFF still a no-show for October
Sunday, October 18th, 2020
We veer off the normal story beats in central Illinois to visit with Nick Alonzo and company up in Chicago, whose new flick DA BIG ZIP plays virtually this afternoon at 3 p.m. Take in an ultra indie today! Tickets cheap!
Posted in Broadcast Dates, Chicago Stories, Flick Picks du C-U, Happy Places, Public Events, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on Grab snacks and dig DA BIG ZIP
Friday, July 3rd, 2020
Nationwide consensus is that small businesses and organizations will get raked over the coals before the pandemic is over. We look at how a first-run, mixed-use, and former movie theater are doing.
Posted in Business Matters, Education/Classes, How You Can Help, Media Coverage, Ones That Got Away?, Preservation, Public Events, Sad Places, The Old School, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on Virus fells Orpheum, shorts Avon
Monday, June 8th, 2020
Once upon a time, next to no one in our society knew how to make movies. Traveling impresarios of a century ago made sure to tease the average citizen with the possibilities in programs like ‘Making Movies.’
Posted in Advertising du C-U, Education/Classes, Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Ones That Got Away?, Print Matter du C-U, Public Events, The Old School, Theatres & Venues, VHS is Best | Comments Off on Let’s all go to the ‘Movies,’ C-U
Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
In an ideal situation, the New Art Film Festival would be joining other downstate Illinois film events in engaging and enthralling you. In this case, the NAFF cheers on their festival friends from afar.
Posted in Area Festivals, C-U Confidential Shows, Competition du C-U, Deadline du C-U, Public Events, Student Film | Comments Off on Fellow fests worth a NAFF shout
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
We’ve finally built a permanent home for the New Art Film Festival on C-U Blogfidental via the ‘Picture Shows du C-U’ page. Did you know we write more than posts on CUBlog? Read about it!
Posted in Area Festivals, C-U Confidential Shows, Confidential Almanac, Public Events | Comments Off on ‘Shows’ page details past NAFFs
Saturday, April 18th, 2020
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!
Posted in Area Festivals, C-U Blogfidential, C-U Confidential Shows, Happy Places, MICRO-FILM du C-U, Public Events | Comments Off on Grab a badge to mark NAFF 10th
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
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.
Posted in Area Festivals, Article du C-U, Business Matters, Education/Classes, JP Confidential, Local Meetings, Media Coverage, Ones That Got Away?, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Sad Places, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on C-U cinema hits a slippery slope
Monday, February 24th, 2020
Handiwork by the teams who participated in this weekend’s 48-hour challenge will be shown tonight, February 24, 2020, during the monthly Champaign Movie Makers meeting at the Champaign Public Library.
Posted in Champaign Movie Makers, Giveaways & Contests, Public Events | Comments Off on CMM to view 48-hour films tonight
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
A new movie show is about to land on the (snow) banks of Champaign-Urbana in the effort to freak us out … for fun! The Krampusnacht Freeky Film Festival will fill up SoDo Theatre on December 7, 2019.
Posted in Area Festivals, News du C-U, Public Events | Comments Off on KNFFF to freak us good on Dec. 7
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
There’s really not much more to say on behalf of the New Art Film Festival. We need a short break from it publicly, starting now, even though we won’t get a break from it privately until further notice.
Posted in Area Festivals, Bittersweet Places, C-U Confidential Shows, JP Confidential, Media Coverage, Ones That Got Away?, Public Events | Comments Off on Alas, no NAFF 2019 show for you
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Students at the University of Illinois have more options to breathe in and produce the cinema then they know. We update today on the UI Golden Corn Student Film Festival and the Illinois Film Office’s Shortcuts contest.
Posted in Area Festivals, Competition du C-U, Education/Classes, Local Meetings, Public Events, Student Film | Comments Off on Options bloom for UI film students
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
All systems are go for several cool film events coming to the area! Learn about them and postulate what might become of the orphaned New Art Film Festival now that the Art Theater is a cinematic sitting duck.
Posted in Area Festivals, C-U Confidential Shows, Ones That Got Away?, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on C-U cinema tumbles hard into fall