Archive for the 'Roger Ebert' Category
Friday, November 29th, 2024
Select movie listings for November 29-December 5, 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?
Posted in Alums Done Good, Article du C-U, Business Matters, Calendar du C-U, Chicago Stories, Gone Hollywood, Images du C-U, Media Coverage, Production Updates, Public Events, Roger Ebert, The Video Throne, VHS is Best | Comments Off on Calendar: Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 2024
Saturday, November 16th, 2024
Select movie listings for November 15-21, 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?
Posted in Area Festivals, Business Matters, Calendar du C-U, Images du C-U, Local Meetings, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on Calendar: November 15-21, 2024
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
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?
Posted in Business Matters, Calendar du C-U, Confidential Almanac, Crowdsourcing du C-U, Images du C-U, Production Updates, Roger Ebert | Comments Off on Calendar: October 11-17, 2024
Saturday, September 14th, 2024
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?
Posted in Alums Done Good, Business Matters, Calendar du C-U, Confidential Almanac, Education/Classes, Images du C-U, Job Opportunities, Media Coverage, Preservation, Roger Ebert, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on Calendar: September 13-19, 2024
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Durability is one of many things accomplished in Champaign-Urbana by Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, which celebrates 25 years this week with a diverse program and quality one-film-at-a-time presentation as their trademarks.
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Here’s a CUBlog sequel you didn’t see coming! Whether you read or appreciated the original, our revised link-list of Tubi fare illustrating the histories of Ebertfest and Confidential will thrill you.
Posted in Area Festivals, Documentary, Films in Retrospect, Gone Hollywood, Roger Ebert, Streaming Cinema, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on Thrice the Tubi for 2023 viewing
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Roger Ebert’s Film Festival is set to captivate Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, for Year 23 from April 18-22, 2023. Here are the base details and important resources for you to know.
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2022
If we can’t have the Art Theater, then we’ll gladly take an “Arthouse Experience” in its place. The program’s first series at the Virginia Theatre ends tonight with a showing of THE WHITE TIGER.
Posted in Area Festivals, Films in Retrospect, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on Virginia catches TIGER at tail end
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
CUBlog resumes posting just in time for the resuscitation of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival! Year 22 launches later tonight at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, and we have the schedule.
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
We delved into the Tubi platform and retrieved intel on movies from both the history of Ebertfest and the fabric of our very being in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Links aplenty now await you!
Posted in Area Festivals, Documentary, Gone Hollywood, Roger Ebert, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on TubiTV incorporates C-U movies
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
The scenes from a film culture that we have been watching mostly from afar fill us with mild disenchantment instead of wonder. And then we were ordered to self-shelter and keep personal spaces to ourselves. Joy.
Posted in Area Festivals, Article du C-U, Business Matters, Education/Classes, JP Confidential, Local Meetings, Media Coverage, Ones That Got Away?, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Sad Places, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on C-U cinema hits a slippery slope
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
All systems are go for several cool film events coming to the area! Learn about them and postulate what might become of the orphaned New Art Film Festival now that the Art Theater is a cinematic sitting duck.
Posted in Area Festivals, C-U Confidential Shows, Ones That Got Away?, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on C-U cinema tumbles hard into fall
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the twenty-first annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2019
As movie critics gravitate to on-line podcasts and videos to offer their opinions, several teams in Champaign-Urbana have continued the tradition of televised debate. We share a few examples with you.
Posted in Broadcast Dates, Media Coverage, Personalities du C-U, Production Updates, Roger Ebert, Student Film, The Old School, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on Critics voice their ideas in videos
Friday, February 15th, 2019
Even though the 21st iteration of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival will not arrive until April, fans can get an early look at the first announced selection, A YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN, direct from Poland if they so choose.
Posted in Area Festivals, Bittersweet Places, Media Coverage, News du C-U, Public Events, Roger Ebert | Comments Off on Ebertfest ‘19 starts on QUIET note