Archive for the 'Gone Hollywood' Category
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!
Posted in Area Festivals, For the Children, Gone Hollywood, Media Coverage, Public Events, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on Film fun to storm the Orpheum
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!
Posted in Alums Done Good, Area Festivals, Champaign Movie Makers, Competition du C-U, For the Children, Gone Hollywood, Media Coverage, News Ticker du C-U, Podcast du C-U, Preservation, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Student Film, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on C-U Film Leader: 2.17.2016
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.
Posted in Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Media Coverage, Sad Places, The Old School | Comments Off on IOW: DP did BLOOD work in C-U
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?
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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.
Posted in For the Children, Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Production Updates, Public Events, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on IOW: Fall “Fear” grips Mt. Zion
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!
Posted in Alums Done Good, Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Ones That Got Away?, The Old School | Comments Off on IOW: STRANGE to see no BloNo
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!
Posted in Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Media Coverage, Production Updates, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on IOW: Two-and-a-half vids to-day!
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…
Posted in Article du C-U, Business Matters, Gone Hollywood | Comments Off on Global reach is key for AFM vets
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.
Posted in Alums Done Good, Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Media Coverage, The Old School, The Video Throne, VHS is Best | Comments Off on SMO knows the Left Coast outré
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…
Posted in Area Festivals, Gone Hollywood, The Old School | Comments Off on 2001 was quite HALarious, too…
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
EXTRA! Interview with the series creator of RE-ELECTION.
Posted in Alums Done Good, Gone Hollywood, Q&A du C-U, Student Film, The Old School | Comments Off on Q&A du C-U: Paul Karpenko
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.
Posted in Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Media Coverage, Ones That Got Away?, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on IOW: Assessing the HONORS roll
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!
Posted in Article du C-U, Business Matters, Gone Hollywood | Comments Off on World of film opens wide at AFM
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…
Posted in Alums Done Good, Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Public Events, Roger Ebert, The Old School | Comments Off on World to embrace LIFE ITSELF
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!)
Posted in Deadline du C-U, Gone Hollywood, Media Coverage, Production Updates | Comments Off on Scoop: FOOD film is good for C-U