Illinois-made independents, including Champaign-Urbana-Danville productions REVOLTING, AMBER ROSE, and IN VINO VERITAS, figure prominently in the schedule for the 10th annual Route 66 International Film Festival, coming September 15-17, 2011.
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The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is now accepting submissions for the upcoming IMC Film Festival taking place September 15-17, 2011.
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Is your newest scary movie either horrific, carnivalesque, zombietastic, or just plain freeky? Then we might have the film festivals within driving distance for you — to enter!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we simply have too much fruit to bear: calls for film festivals, calls for talent, a call for funding, a Hollywood actors’ seminar, a sequel, a play, and the movies now playing/renting near you! Oh, my!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we list a festival job opportunity, note a theater up for sale, share a call for advertising entries, rib the participants in the RUBBER controversy, and relay which movies are now playing/renting near you!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we survive our brush with PARANOIA, pass along an ABIGAIL SHOW proposal, find a new outlet for Super 8 movies, and get back on track with mentioning the movies now playing/renting near you!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: In this second of three installments featuring images culled from our archives pertaining to the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond, we highlight (mostly older) random activity!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we hook you up with THE DRUNK, press you to feel the PARANOIA, beg you to raid your closet for Seventies threads, and hope you pay mind to all the movies now playing/renting near you!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we unearth a COMMUNIST plot, find a good reason to JUMP IN, improvise a CHARLESTON happy dance, introduce new film fest possibilities, and relish the movies now playing/renting near you!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get groovy with the ghoulies invading this week’s installment, in which we posit scientifical evidence that local-ish movies such as THE WINDOW INTO TIME and DOUBLE DOSE OF TERROR!! really exist.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we thank our CUZine advertisers, thank goodness you have numerous film shoots and film fests to engage, and thank our lucky stars that new movies are now playing/renting near you!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we highly suggest that you appear in a robot movie, take a photo class in Iceland, help a design firm shoot green screen, camp out at a UI movie marathon, and patronize the movies now playing/renting near you!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we confirm the next Champaign Movie Makers meeting, spill on a local documentary opp, encourage the watching of films-from-books, and deposit the skinny on the movies now playing/renting near you!
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Our exclusive EbertFlashBackFest wraps up with a brand-new conclusion as editor Jason Pankoke tells you why C-U Blogfidential willingly abstained from taking in Roger Ebert’s Film Festival last week.
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Our exclusive EbertFlashBackFest continues as editor Jason Pankoke speaks to us from 10 years ago! In this sixth entry, he checks out non-festival films CHEMISTRY 101, SHOT, and SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE while everyone else loves EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU.
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