There’s really not much more to say on behalf of the New Art Film Festival. We need a short break from it publicly, starting now, even though we won’t get a break from it privately until further notice.
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Select movie listings for November 15-21, 2019 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?
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Students at the University of Illinois have more options to breathe in and produce the cinema then they know. We update today on the UI Golden Corn Student Film Festival and the Illinois Film Office’s Shortcuts contest.
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Select movie listings for November 8-14, 2019 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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All systems are go for several cool film events coming to the area! Learn about them and postulate what might become of the orphaned New Art Film Festival now that the Art Theater is a cinematic sitting duck.
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Select movie listings for November 1-7, 2019 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?
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What a crock of hooey. The Art Theater is closing. The New Art Film Festival is in limbo. C-U Confidential #10 is still not fully distributed. What next? Oh, yes. We’ll always have MICRO-FILM. Right.
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Select movie listings for October 25-31, 2019 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?
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BearManor Media released ‘My Best Friend’s Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film’ by Andrew J. Rausch on October 6, 2019. Myths are dispelled, truth is unearthed, and Ye Ed contributes a few words to it!
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Select movie listings for October 18-24, 2019 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?
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