C-U Blogfidential

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we clue you in to this week’s festivals, potentially game-changing editing software, the most voluptuous set of “Links” we’ve ever assembled, and the movies now playing/renting near you!

The Route 66 International Film Festival will stage its 10th anniversary showcase from Friday, September 16, through Sunday, September 18, 2011, in the Hoogland Center for the Arts of Springfield, IL, and we have the full schedule just for you!

The Independent Media Center of Urbana will host the third edition of its popular IMC Film Festival from Thursday, September 15, through Saturday, September 17, 2011, and we have the full schedule just for you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” “The Short Form” becomes a bit longer as the action kicks up a notch in the C-U including a notable passing, an impending festival, awards nominations, and the movies now playing/renting near you!

C-U Blogfidential’s monthly open forum, “Clean Slate,” asks which area film festivals our readers will experience this fall!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we strip it down to the basics in a “Short Form” that contains all the nutrients you need: a call for entries, a casting call, special show dates, and all the movies now playing/renting near you!

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.

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is now accepting submissions for the upcoming IMC Film Festival taking place September 15-17, 2011.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!