The next New Art Film Festival will now take place Sunday, October 4, 2015, at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, Illinois. Several other community movie events will tide you over quite nicely.
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New (and veteran) informants bring their perspectives to the table in highlighting “Ebertfest” 2014. In the sixth filing, your humble editor makes note of a sextet worth your consideration.
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The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the seventeenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.
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New informants bring their perspectives to the table in highlighting “Ebertfest” 2014. In the fifth filing, Samantha Ducey encounters thematic duplicity during a screening of YOUNG ADULT.
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Are your fingers ready? Is your stylus at hand? Time to take notes, dearest local filmmakers, for options are afoot for your work to be enjoyed in upcoming Champaign-Urbana events!
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The sixth annual New Art Film Festival is … not accepting entries just yet. Read on, MacNAFFs…
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EXTRA! Interview with the director of short film FIVE.
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Fool your friends! Fluster your fellow film fans! Flock to Chicago’s The Elbo Room for a fantastic fundraiser to benefit Juan Francisco Moctezuma’s newest horror freak-out, DEMONOID (1970)!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Investigative reporting by The Pantagraph in Bloomington focuses on helping the mentally ill more effectively in the video, SHORTCHANGED.
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Shatterglass Studios, a media firm in Champaign, Illinois, has made public its new production summarizing the 16th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival held in April 2014 at Champaign’s Virginia Theatre.
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A flurry of old-school, post-school experiences came back to occupy Mr. JaPan after taking part in a symposium about do-it-yourself print media. In the spirit of the milieu, he cut and pasted together this post just for you.
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We’ve crammed so many film culture plugs in this post that it’s downright eerie! Beware that something Freeky, Drunken, Embarras, and International this way comes in the next week-plus, but don’t be shy in getting sexy with your cinema stuffs, either!
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Read this, heed this, and then stop paying attention to any electronic screen within your vicinity so you can make it safely to That’s Rentertainment in Campustown. Today is Video Store Day!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We’re never ones to let good material go wasted … even if we’re a few months late in delivering it to our fans. A-hem. This one’s for you, Dora Valkanova and the New Art Film Festival faithful!
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The occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois, inspires Perry C. Morris and friends to celebrate local movie history!
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