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Tonight, October 20, 2006, 9 p.m., The Highdive in downtown Champaign hosts a free concert by local band JigGsaw that will be videotaped for future release, while LIX presents a midnight revival of AMERICAN PSYCHO a few blocks away at Boardman’s Art Theatre.

Coming Soon: Tournees French Film Festival at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/13-19/06), Brainsmart Productions Film Festival at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s, Champaign, IL (10/15-16/06), Human Rights Film Festival at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, Champaign, IL (10/19-26/06), and THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY at the Natural History Building, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/27/06).

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, October 4, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

Coming Soon: LAGE RAHO MUNNA BHAI at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (9/23-24/06), the Manhattan Short Film Fest at the Normal Theatre, Normal, IL (9/23/06), DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (1920) also at the Normal Theatre (9/28/06), and several Luis Bunuel films at the Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Champaign, IL (9/28/06, 10/19/06).

Film festivals rule downstate Illinois this month as the Route 66 Film Festival (September 16-17, 2006, Springfield), Embarras Valley Film Festival (September 20-23, 2006, Charleston), and Asian Film Festival: South Korea (September 29-30, 2006, Champaign) vie for the attention of cinephiles everywhere.

I THINK YOU’RE F***ING STUPID, a short by local filmmaker Alaric Rocha, dares to tell it like it is at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival on Saturday, September 30, 2006, 10:30 p.m. Also, Rocha nears completion on another short, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, September 6, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

MICRO-FILM rocks out with another MICRO-FILM Movie Show! This time, we program an evening’s worth of productions from Chicago’s Film Foetus, including the full-length doc THE BEARS: OUT OF HIBERNATION! with Adrian Belew, at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in Champaign, IL, on Saturday, September 9, 2006.

Directed, produced, and written by Robin Christian Peters for Champaign, IL-based Dreamscape Cinema, DISCONNECT encores at the Piatt Co. Forest Preserve Park in Monticello, IL, on August 27, 2006.

CNGM Pictures of Chicago offers a taste of NORMAL LIFE during the final screening day of MicrocinemaFest in Palatine, IL, on Saturday, August 12, 2006, 7 p.m.

WILL-TV and the University of Illinois Library sponsor “Home Movie Day,” a celebration of amateur small-gague cinema, at the WILL studios on Saturday, August 12, 2006, 1 p.m.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

Part 2 of THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE, joined by APE: PART 1 and WEREWOLF CEMETERY: EPISODE 2, lays down the verbal whoop-ass on Sunday, July 30, 9:30 p.m., at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in downtown Champaign.

MICRO-FILM steps back into the ring for the first MICRO-FILM Movie Show in three years! This time, THE MONSTER OF PHANTOM LAKE and UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY terrorize Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in Champaign, IL, on Sunday, July 23, 2006, and Wednesday, July 26, 2006.

The R.C. Raycraft documentary INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK is scheduled to play the Castle Theater in downtown Bloomington, IL, on Friday, July 14, 2006, 7 p.m.