Calendar: May 14-20, 2021
Our movie and media Calendar appears every Friday/Saturday on C-U Blogfidential and caters to the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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MILESTONES | Happy Birthday to You!
5/19: Gerry Kissell (co-host, Pop Culture Minefield vidcast, Dangerous Nerds Media, Springfield, MO)
CONFIDENTIAL ALMANAC | Dates in Film Culture History
20 Years Ago … Tuesday, January 23, 2001: A prolific distributor of micro-budget films and related collectibles, Sub Rosa Studios of Syracuse, New York, announces a trio of new titles releasing to the home video market. One is the debut feature-length project from Shut Up and Do It Productions of Champaign, DOGS IN QUICKSAND, which was filmed by writer/director Mike Trippiedi and cinematographer/editor Bill Yauch with cast and crew in numerous Champaign County locations during the summer of 1997. Although several of their recent video shorts have played in regional film festivals, earned awards in competition, and received coverage in periodicals friendly to the emerging “backyard cinema” movement in America such as Film Threat and Shock Cinema, DOGS is the first effort to be made widely available to the general public in any format. Local audiences received an initial look at the movie, a dark and quirky comedy about an estranged small-town couple played by Anne Shapland Kearns and Trippiedi whose lives are turned upside down after a murder occurs, in November 1999 as a selection of the third Freaky Film Festival at the New Art Theater. PSYCHO SCARECROW and THE MURDER MEN are the other two indies being premiered on VHS by Sub Rosa, which would reissue DOGS in various DVD sets over the next several years after rebranding as SRS Cinema.
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
FINDING YOU, PROFILE, SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, DEMON SLAYER THE MOVIE: MUGEN TRAIN, FATIMA, GODZILLA VS. KONG, MORTAL KOMBAT, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, WRATH OF MAN (5/14 on), JURASSIC WORLD (5/14, 4 p.m.), MINIONS (5/14, 4:30 p.m.), NOBODY, SHREK FOREVER AFTER (5/14, 7 p.m.), SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (5/14, 9:45 p.m.)
@ Music Barn, Allerton Park & Retreat Center, UIUC, Monticello, IL
“Sunset Drive-In Movie Series” feat. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (5/14-5/15, 8 p.m.) Registration required
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
FINDING YOU, PROFILE, SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, THE COURIER, DEMON SLAYER THE MOVIE: MUGEN TRAIN, GODZILLA VS. KONG, MINARI, MORTAL KOMBAT, NOBODY, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, SEPARATION, THE UNHOLY (5/14 on), UFC 262: Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler, more (5/15, 9 p.m., simulcast)
@ Redbox, Champaign-Urbana, IL
EQUAL STANDARD, LAND, THE MARKSMAN, THE MAURITANIAN, THE VAULT, more! (5/11 on) Online rentals
Events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Additional “Now Playing” and “Coming Soon” listings appear after the jump!
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NOW PLAYING | The Cities Beyond
@ AMC Classic Village Mall 6, Danville, IL
SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, GODZILLA VS. KONG, MORTAL KOMBAT, NOBODY, WRATH OF MAN (5/14-5/16)
@ AMC Peru Mall 8, Peru, IL
DEMON SLAYER THE MOVIE: MUGEN TRAIN, GODZILLA VS. KONG, MORTAL KOMBAT, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, SEPARATION, WRATH OF MAN (5/14-5/16)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, WRATH OF MAN (5/14-5/16)
@ The Fischer Theatre, Danville, IL
No movies this week!
@ The Harvest Moon Twin Drive-in, Gibson City, IL
Shriners Hospitals for Children benefit concert w/John Schneider, Cody McCarver, Keith Burns, feat. STAND ON IT! (5/14, 6 p.m.), THE GOONIES (Screen 1), E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Screen 2) (5/15-5/16)
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL
Private rentals for the week.
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (5/14-5/16), “Living Room Film Festival” virtual screenings: WET SEASON (through 5/20), The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2021 (through 5/14, all three programs) Purchase
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL
Closed for the week.
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
Closed for the week.
@ Route 34 Drive-in, Earlville, IL
THE THING (1982), VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995) (5/14-5/16)
@ Route 66 Twin Drive-in, Springfield, IL
SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, THE DJINN (Screen 1), GREMLINS, WRATH OF MAN (Screen 2) (5/14-5/15)
@ Roxy Cinemas, Ottawa, IL
SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, THE GIRL WHO BELIEVES IN MIRACLES, GODZILLA VS. KONG, MORTAL KOMBAT, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, SILO, WALKING WITH HERB (5/14 on), NOMADLAND, THE FATHER (5/14-5/16)
@ Streator Eagle 6, Streator, IL
SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, FOUR GOOD DAYS, THE GIRL WHO BELIEVES IN MIRACLES, MORTAL KOMBAT, WALKING WITH HERB, WRATH OF MAN (5/14 on)
NOW PLAYING | Midwest
@ online Eventive, Madison, WI
University of Wisconsin-Madison presents 22nd Wisconsin Film Festival (through 5/20) Passes and tickets
For detailed and curated listings of Chicago-area film presentations and related events, as well as cancellations and postponements due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, please visit the fine folks at Cine-File and subscribe to their definitive “Cine-List” weekly blast.
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
6/10-6/13
31st Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival
@ Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
9/8-9/11
22nd Roger Ebert’s Film Festival
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
10/22-10/23
Dark History and Horror Convention’s Screaming Mad Film Festival 2.1
@ I Hotel and Conference Center, UIUC, Champaign, IL
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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