Archive for the 'Gone Hollywood' Category

Film fun to storm the Orpheum

Thursday, May 26th, 2016

Provision Elevator Advertising and the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum have teamed to present an all-ages summertime event for the community, “Champaign Cinema under the Stars,” launching tonight!

C-U Film Leader: 2.17.2016

Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about celebrity sightings to come, single-screen venues to preserve, and miscellany du C-U for all to behold!

IOW: DP did BLOOD work in C-U

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Two titans of cinematography, gone. Three footnotes in Champaign-Urbana film history, remembered. Four rare archival photos, presented in full FLESH AND BLOOD.

IOW: CONSUMED in moderation

Saturday, November 14th, 2015

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, all the C-U consumers of CONSUMED will gather at the Art Theater Co-op to get a first look at this locally shot, out-of-town indie. Will you be one of them?

IOW: Fall “Fear” grips Mt. Zion

Saturday, October 10th, 2015

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Heroic Age Studios of Mt. Zion, IL, celebrates “The Art of Fear” with activities all day on Saturday, October 10, 2015, at their Heroic Age Art Center.

IOW: STRANGE to see no BloNo

Saturday, August 22nd, 2015

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s take a whirlwind tour of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, on film … even though it took trips the world over for various filmmakers to depict the BloNo home front!

IOW: Two-and-a-half vids to-day!

Friday, June 26th, 2015

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Here is a video-laden update on indie films with a touch or two du C-U – THE END OF THE TOUR, THE ORIGINS OF WIT & HUMOR, and CONSUMED!

Global reach is key for AFM vets

Thursday, April 30th, 2015

The professionals spoke their mind on producing films for a worldwide market at last fall’s American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA. Robin Christian took good notes on the nuts and the bolts…

SMO knows the Left Coast outré

Saturday, March 21st, 2015

In our continuing quest to educate you on the video unknown, we tell you a bit about Champaign native and Los Angeles independent filmmaker Samuel M. Oldham.

2001 was quite HALarious, too…

Sunday, January 18th, 2015

We can have a little fun every now and then here at C-U Blogfidential, affirmative? A nice, strategic game of chess is in order. Anyone? Anyone?!? Er, if you insist, HAL…

Q&A du C-U: Paul Karpenko

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

EXTRA! Interview with the series creator of RE-ELECTION.

IOW: Assessing the HONORS roll

Saturday, October 11th, 2014

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: There may be no honor involved in remembering when Hollywood enlisted the C-U, but that does not mean we can’t throw a little love down WITH HONORS way.

World of film opens wide at AFM

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Our man in Hollywood, Robin Christian, returns to a scene he knows very well – the annual American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA – and provides beginners’ tips for wading those filmy waters!

World to embrace LIFE ITSELF

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

Will LIFE ITSELF be one of the rare breakout documentary hits at the box office? Who can say! At least we finally know when we can see it again in Champaign-Urbana after it stunned the Roger Ebert faithful on opening night of “Ebertfest” 2014…

Scoop: FOOD film is good for C-U

Thursday, May 1st, 2014

It’s been a few years, but Champaign-Urbana will play host this summer to a film production that didn’t originate here. Read on for our first thoughts about Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones, and FOOD. (P.S. They’re casting, too!)