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Select movie listings for October 18-24, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for October 11-17, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for October 4-10, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for September 20-26, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! And did you take a peek at the Image of the week?

Select movie listings for September 13-19, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Image of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for September 6-12, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Image of the week?

Select movie listings for August 30-September 5, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Image of the week?

Select movie listings for July 26-August 1, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week?

Ye Ed is rooting for the film culture of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to rebound from the turbulence of recent years. Not everything will survive, such as the theaters he recently photographed.

Once upon a time, next to no one in our society knew how to make movies. Traveling impresarios of a century ago made sure to tease the average citizen with the possibilities in programs like ‘Making Movies.’

The unused Lincoln Square Theatre in downtown Decatur, Illinois, is showing signs of disrepair on its exterior. Residents and officials may be at a tipping point in deciding the fate of the venue.

Once again, the archives at MFHQ trigger your humble editor into remembering times of a different creative energy. Herein we have evidence of his stab at fashioning attire for a lost short film project.

Espresso Royale on Daniel Street in Champaign, IL, will be closed and torn down, but we’ll always have our memories and film evidence of the coffee spot. What film evidence, you say? It’s minor, but, it exists!

Does anybody remember when your humble editor was an artist and photographer instead of a Confidential provocateur? We present the dirt on his past dalliances in black-and-white and living color!

And now, for student filmmaking that is completely different! Vinegar Syndrome recruits the forgotten UI action opus SHOT for another tour of duty on Blu-ray disc beginning August 28, 2018. This is our verdict…