C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Do like the kids used to do and watch Japanese monster movies and cartoons to start your weekend! Well, sort of. Allow us to explain via episodes of Neon Harbor Entertainment’s NINJA THE MISSION FORCE and DEJA VIEW series!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We reported earlier this week about the release of DVDs for local indie features HOUSE OF THADDEUS and SCARY NORMAL. Today, we show you what they look like on the outside. Discovering what they look like on the inside is up to you, dearest potential viewer!

Dormant C-U group Third Stone returns to life for a one-off rock-and-roll throw down at Fat City Bar and Grill in Champaign, IL, later tonight, Friday, September 20, 2013. We’ll show and tell you how movie-making has infiltrated their storied history!

WILL Channel 12, the PBS affiliate based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is reviving a previous collaborative project with the production of the special program WE ARE MONTICELLO. If you are a resident of Monticello, you can be involved!

Fresh links lead us to consider once again the sound-on-film technology developed by Joseph Tykocinski-Tykociner nearly a century ago, especially since the fruits of his labor are finally available for study.

“Lost” underground local cinema has recently crawled its way onto the Internet in the forms of THORAXX II: THE BREEDING and ONE ROACH FOR SEAMUS, distinct species with a common genus (Pi Omega Omega) and family (Mike ‘n Molly’s).

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It’s time for a bit of spiritual penance under the chapel roof as The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra give you “Something to Believe,” both in song and on video!

This may not constitute a “scene” as we’ve been experiencing lately in the C-U, but at the least WE HAD THIS BAND and THE GRAVEYARD MENACE bring some fresh filmmaking blood to Bloomington-Normal!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Sam Ambler and Matt HarsH’s approach to making a Morgan Orion music video is pretty straightforward. They just put him on camera and let those soulful eyes and voice do all the work. “Fire in Blood” is their current example.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Chris Eitel has a knack for filming cool videos for ambitious young musicians. We’re sure The Fights are only happy to have one set to their song, “I Should Have Loved You.”

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Here’s the best exercise video a movie fan could ever hope to see – Tilda Swinton jumping around with more than a thousand “Ebertfest” attendees in utmost glee!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: WILL-TV 12 will air a compilation of clips featuring the late Roger Ebert, EBERT REMEMBERED, later tonight, Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 8 p.m. Also, take a look at Shatterglass Studios videos about Ebertfest and the Virginia Theatre!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get a leg up on your film-going brethren by taking in this gallery of clips from entries playing the fourth annual New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL, on Friday, April 12, 2013!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Prepare to be whisked away when Kiss the Cook Productions’ film short SPINNING premieres at the Illini Union at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL, later tonight, Saturday, March 23, 2013!

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at SoDo Theatre in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. They also earned an appearance on UPTV!