Select movie listings for July 26-August 1, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week?
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Durability is one of many things accomplished in Champaign-Urbana by Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, which celebrates 25 years this week with a diverse program and quality one-film-at-a-time presentation as their trademarks.
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Select movie listings for April 5-11, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report!
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Get outside this summer and enjoy the pleasures of the drive-in theater, whether on National Drive-in Day or any other time they’re showing movies, serving up goodies, and bringing folks together.
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Roger Ebert’s Film Festival is set to captivate Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, for Year 23 from April 18-22, 2023. Here are the base details and important resources for you to know.
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Select movie listings for December 16-22, 2022 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report!
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Select movie listings for December 9-15, 2022 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report!
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The Normal Theater will present the indie feature FINAL SUMMER from Front 76 Films of Champaign on November 17, 2022. See this campground slasher before it goes on a screening hiatus!
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If we can’t have the Art Theater, then we’ll gladly take an “Arthouse Experience” in its place. The program’s first series at the Virginia Theatre ends tonight with a showing of THE WHITE TIGER.
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CUBlog resumes posting just in time for the resuscitation of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival! Year 22 launches later tonight at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, and we have the schedule.
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Ye Ed is rooting for the film culture of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to rebound from the turbulence of recent years. Not everything will survive, such as the theaters he recently photographed.
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In a restructuring effort by new ownership, the Goodrich Quality Theaters chain has decided to let go of the Savoy 16 IMAX in Savoy, IL. It could reopen if another tenant-operator fills the void.
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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.
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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.’
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The unused Lincoln Square Theatre in downtown Decatur, Illinois, is showing signs of disrepair on its exterior. Residents and officials may be at a tipping point in deciding the fate of the venue.
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