C-U Blogfidential

The IMC Film Festival returns to celebrate the art of cinematography later this week during February 5-7, 2010, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in the old Post Office building in downtown Urbana, IL.

The submission deadline for the second annual IMC Film Festival has been extended to Wednesday, January 20, 2010.

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center once again is looking for material to present at the IMC Film Festival, which returns February 5-7, 2010, to the IMC in Urbana, IL.

Special film shows come fast and furious during the next two weeks and into the New Year. Don’t you want to know what they are?

The sixth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, produced by Eastern Illinois University and highlighting the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, will take place November 12-14, 2009, in downstate Charleston. And, yes, we admit that we apparently counted wrong last year so you can put away that bayonet, young man.

Join us for this important flashback 10 years in the making, dearest readers of C-U Blogfidential.

Festival passes for the 12th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in Champaign, IL, in April 2010 will go on sale this Sunday, November 1, 2009.

C-U Blogfidential shares some ideas about places to go, people to meet, and events to attend, because we are firm believers in moderating one’s time in front of one’s video screens at the home front.

The eighth annual Route 66 International Film Festival presents the best in global independent cinema at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield, IL, on September 19-20, 2009.

Here at C-U Blogfidential, we believe that your film has the right to be seen outside of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond. Click here for a hit list of opportunities to help your film do just that.

The Canopy Club in Urbana, IL, hosts this year’s Illini Film & Video Spring Film Festival tomorrow, Sunday, May 3, 2009, starting at 5 p.m.

Never fear, “C-U Confidential” is here! Well, almost. Find your cinema salvation in print starting tonight, April 22, 2009, at the friendly confines of the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign, IL, during Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

They once called him the poor man’s Roger Ebert. They were right. Help him realize that it is not such a bad thing by attending the first-ever C-U Confidential local movie show, “Local Cinema @ Paradiso,” this Friday, April 17, 2009, from 6-10 p.m. at Caffe Paradiso in Urbana!

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the eleventh annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this sixth entry, he tackles Tarsem’s baroque sensibilities as evidenced in THE CELL.