Calendar du C-U: April 29-May 5
Our unique movie and media Calendar appears every Friday on C-U Blogfidential and caters to the discerning tastes of citizens in the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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PLAYING THIS WEEK
4/29/16-5/5/16
MILESTONES
Happy Birthday to … Saturday, April 30: Matt Shivers (voice actor, SECRET AGENT SQUIRREL, Pens to Lens 2015), Eric Sizemore (voice actor, TEA TIME!, Pens to Lens 2015) … Wednesday, May 4: Andrew J. Rausch (editor, Conversations on Quentin Tarantino, BearManor Media) … Thursday, May 5: Chris Lukeman (director, THE WIZARD) … celebrate!
10 Years Ago … Monday, May 1, 2006: Comedian and television writer Mark Roberts, a native of nearby Tolono and former resident of Urbana, begins production this week on his self-financed film WELCOME TO TOLONO. Based on the same-named play, written and directed by Roberts as an “artist-in-residence” production at the Station Theatre in Urbana the previous summer, TOLONO is filmed during a five-week schedule in its small town namesake. Much of the original stage cast appears including Brian Reedy, Mike Trippiedi, David Butler, Kay Bohannon Holley, Gary Ambler, and Barbara Evans, who are joined in this screen adaptation by Mike Harvey, Colleen Klein, Joi Hoffsommer, Anne Shapland Kearns, and Rien Rogers. A premiere of the darkly humorous drama, concerning disparate individuals who attend a weekly support group in the basement of a local church, would take place at the University of Illinois’ Foellinger Auditorium in June 2007 after which it played a smattering of regional festivals. Not unlike WEREWOLF CEMETERY discussed in last week’s Calendar, TOLONO has yet to be issued on consumer formats or via streaming. As reported on 5/4/06, 5/14/06, 7/11/07, 8/19/07 at CUBlog.
FLICKER OF THE WEEK
Watch for a preview to appear tomorrow on CUBlog about the Kimberly Conner production, BEFORE ‘I DO,’ set for its first public screening at 7 p.m. the same night, Sat., Apr. 30, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield. Conner, whose previous efforts THIS LIFE AIN’T PRETTY and JUMP IN have been covered on this forum, lives and works in the Capital City as well as channels her extra energies into a burgeoning cinema career of which ‘I DO’ is the latest example. Act fast if you would like to attend the premiere at Hoogland; less than 40 seats remain for the show according to a Facebook update from Conner posted yesterday. We’d also highly suggest STRANGE VICTORY (Milestone Film), a documentary-essay from 1948 directed by Leo Hurwitz that bravely holds the United States to task for racist and anti-Semitic tendencies in the wake of World War II; it plays a single show at the Art Theater Co-op on Mon., May 2, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for ‘I DO’
LOCAL FILMS, ETC.
@ The Hoogland Center for the Arts, Springfield, IL: Predestined Arts & Entertainment presents BEFORE ‘I DO’* red carpet premiere w/filmmakers (4/30, 7 p.m.)
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL: UIUC National Center for Supercomputing Applications presents A BEAUTIFUL PLANET red carpet event w/discussion feat. Advanced Visualization Laboratory participants (IMAX 3-D) (5/1, 11 a.m. doors, 11:30 a.m. film)
NOW PLAYING
@ The Art Theater Co-op, Champaign, IL: A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (4/29 on), The North End Breakfast Club and the Art present STRANGE VICTORY w/discussion (5/2, 7:30 p.m.), Champaign Urbana Public Health District presents SOMEONE YOU LOVE: THE HPV EPIDEMIC w/discussion (5/3, 6 p.m., free), UIUC Women’s Resources Center presents 7th annual Feminist Film Festival* (5/5, 7:30 p.m., free), PURPLE RAIN (4/29, 4/30, 10 p.m.; 5/1, 11:30 a.m.; 5/4, 10 p.m.; 5/5, 11 p.m.)
@ Pine Lounge, Main Floor, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL: Illini Union Board presents “Weekend Films at the Union” feat. HOW TO BE SINGLE (4/29, 4/30, 7 p.m., free w/i-card)
@ Room 180, Bevier Hall, UIUC, Urbana, IL: UI Sustainability Living-Learning Community presents 2nd annual May Day Sustainability Shorts Film Festival (5/1, 7 p.m., free)
@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, THE JUNGLE BOOK (3-D & 2-D) (4/29 on), THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (4/29-5/1), CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (3-D & 2-D) (5/5, 7 p.m.)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL: Beyond Normal Films presents MY GOLDEN DAYS (4/29, 5/1, 5/5, 7 p.m.), FRIDAY (4/29, 10:30 p.m.), ISU Clef Hangars a cappella performance (4/30, 2 p.m., free or donation), Illinois Shakespeare Festival presents CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (4/30, 7 p.m.), THE RULES OF THE GAME (5/3, 7 p.m.)
@ Route 66 Twin Drive-In, Springfield, IL: THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE GOOD DINOSAUR (Screen 1), THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, THE BOSS (Screen 2) (4/29-4/30)
@ The Lincoln Grand 8, Lincoln, IL: KEANU, MOTHER’S DAY, RATCHET & CLANK (3-D & 2-D), THE BOSS, EYE IN THE SKY, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK (4/29 on), PURPLE RAIN (4/29-5/4), CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (5/5, 7 p.m. (3-D), 7:50 p.m. (standard))
@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL: THE JUNGLE BOOK (4/29-5/1, 5/4)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL: THE BOSS (4/29-5/1)
@ Harvest Moon Twin Drive-In, Gibson City, IL: THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (4/29-5/1)
@ The Little Lorraine, Hoopeston, IL: Save the Lorraine Foundation presents “Music and the Presidents” performance by Elizabeth Doyle (4/30, 2, 4, & 6 p.m.)
@ Carmike 13, Champaign, IL: KEANU, MOTHER’S DAY, RATCHET & CLANK (3-D & 2-D), SPOTLIGHT, BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT, THE BOSS, CRIMINAL, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK (3-D & 2-D), ZOOTOPIA (4/29 on), CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (5/5, 7:30, 9, 10, & 11 p.m. (standard), 8 p.m. (3-D))
@ Goodrich Savoy 16, Savoy, IL: FINDING MR. RIGHT 2, GREEN ROOM, KEANU, MOTHER’S DAY, PAPA HEMINGWAY IN CUBA, RATCHET & CLANK (3-D & 2-D), BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT, BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, THE BOSS, CRIMINAL, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK (IMAX 3-D & 2-D), MILES AHEAD, ZOOTOPIA (4/29 on), A BEAUTIFUL PLANET (IMAX 3-D) (4/29-5/5, 11:30 a.m.), THE PRINCESS BRIDE (4/30-5/1, 10 a.m.), Fathom Events presents Metropolitan Opera Live: Elektra (4/30, 11:55 a.m., live simulcast; 5/4, 6:30 p.m., encore presentation), Fathom Events and Eakin Films present “Come to the Garden – On Stage!” feat. Jennifer Wilder Morgan (5/3, 7 p.m.), Fathom Events and RiffTrax.com present RiffTrax Live! TIME CHASERS (5/5, 7 p.m.), CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (5/5, 7 & 10:10 p.m. (IMAX 3-D & standard))
@ AMC Village Mall 6, Danville, IL: KEANU, MOTHER’S DAY, RATCHET & CLANK (3-D & 2-D), BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK (3-D & 2-D) (4/29 on)
@ Family Video, Champaign-Urbana, IL: KRAMPUS, RIDE ALONG 2, JANE GOT A GUN, SON OF SAUL, BACKTRACK, THE DRIFTLESS AREA, BURNING BODHI, more! (4/26 on)
@ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinemas, Chicago, IL: Midwest Independent Film Festival presents MAD w/filmmaker Robert Putka (5/3, 6 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. Producers Panel, 7:30 p.m. screening)
@ Centerbrook Drive-In, Martinsville, IN: THE JUNGLE BOOK, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (4/29-4/30)
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Locally produced movies and events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Also find out what is “Coming Soon” by hitting the jump below. Go see ‘em, C-U!
COMING SOON
6/1-6/5: 23rd annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
10/21-10/23: 2nd annual Dark History & Horror Convention
@ Fluid Event Center, Champaign, IL
COMMUNITY FILM SERIES
The News-Gazette Film Series
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL, 1 & 7 p.m.
5/21: THE GRADUATE; 6/25: Reader’s Choice TBA; 7/16: THE AWFUL TRUTH; 8/6: WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES
Illini Union Board Presents “Weekend Films at the Union”
@ Pine Lounge, Main Level, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m., free w/i-card
4/29, 4/30: HOW TO BE SINGLE; 5/6, 5/7: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke
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