IOW: Thrill to the Skull & ‘Throne’
Thursday, January 8th, 2015From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: One of the redheaded stepchildren in Paper Opteryx lineage returns home as “The Video Throne” exudes analog angst under the CUBlog banner!
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: One of the redheaded stepchildren in Paper Opteryx lineage returns home as “The Video Throne” exudes analog angst under the CUBlog banner!
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We delved into MFHQ, we survived MFHQ, and we present our MFHQ findings to you, dearest vintage movie theater connoisseurs. The Art Theater Co-op, revealed!
EXTRA! Interview with the series creator of RE-ELECTION.
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We’re never ones to let good material go wasted … even if we’re a few years late! Here’s a 2004 flashback of former UIUC students, including Illini Film & Video alum Paul Karpenko, making ASSASSINS.
A flurry of old-school, post-school experiences came back to occupy Mr. JaPan after taking part in a symposium about do-it-yourself print media. In the spirit of the milieu, he cut and pasted together this post just for you.
Read this, heed this, and then stop paying attention to any electronic screen within your vicinity so you can make it safely to That’s Rentertainment in Campustown. Today is Video Store Day!
The occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois, inspires Perry C. Morris and friends to celebrate local movie history!
For something so flat, our former newsletter MICRO-Scope displayed the nascent modern film culture of Champaign-Urbana in multiple dimensions!
Today, PDF stands for “pretty darn fascinating” as we point you towards a free ePDF promotion of film book publisher Michael Wiese’s unorthodox autobiography, “Onward & Upward.” You can read, dearest readers, can you not?
Will LIFE ITSELF be one of the rare breakout documentary hits at the box office? Who can say! At least we finally know when we can see it again in Champaign-Urbana after it stunned the Roger Ebert faithful on opening night of “Ebertfest” 2014…
Two hours from now, a cascade of confidential cinema will course across the screen of the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, courtesy of the fifth New Art Film Festival on Sunday, April 13, 2014!
Mr. JaPan goes flashbacking again as he prepares for the “Cut & Paste” ‘zine culture symposium at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during which he will participate as panelist, commentator, and cut-and-paste fiend. Hand him that glue, quick!
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The Elvis Brothers never *really* left the building, as C-U Blogfidential has discovered! Dig on these vintage Elvis Bros. videos, one of which features the former Cinema Theater of Urbana as a backdrop.
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 reveal the front cover of a new book about the Art Theater and divulge a bit about its contents, too!