C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: In this second of three installments featuring images culled from our archives pertaining to the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond, we highlight (mostly older) random activity!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we peer through THE WINDOW INTO TIME, pontificate THE CITY BEYOND, take a DUCKMAN VS. ZOMBIES hit, drop a LGBT video opp, and update what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Founder of the UIUC Unit for Cinema Studies, Edwin Jahiel of Urbana, has passed away at age 85.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s now take a quick look at the work of Johnnie May and Danny Plotnick that typifies the wide-ranging variety once presented at Champaign-Urbana’s Freaky Film Festival from 1997 to 2000.

Normal, IL, movie-maker R.C. Raycraft releases his rock documentary INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK a full 40 years after the music festival “Incident at Kickapoo Creek” originally took place, starting at the Normal Theater on Monday, May 31, 2010.

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

Join us back for the attack this December when our first “off-season” issue, C-U Confidential ’99, hits the streets!

Arcadia Publishing released the picture book “Urbana” by Ilona Matkovszki and Dennis Roberts on September 14, 2009, which serves as a companion piece to their prior volume, “Champaign” by Raymond Bial.

A series of presentations to showcase the creative, non-commercial output of post-World War II filmmakers in Europe to help the intercontinental “Marshall Plan” meet its goals will be held September 24-26, 2009, on the Unviersity of Illinois campus under the title, “Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948–1953,” hosted by Sandra Schulberg.

It’s not often that one sees such a potluck served here at C-U Blogfidential, but here you go … all nine courses’ worth.

We, the undersigned, do declare that C-U Confidential, the digest of the Movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the Cities Beyond, will engage the public discourse regarding independent local cinema for a second session during the 2009 calendar year. Tut, tut!

Your editor remembers that personal success often comes in the smallest of packages.

Did you really think that THE GARBAGE MAN was forever buried underneath the sands of time? Think again, punk.

Hart D. Fisher plans on stomping the grounds of Champaign-Urbana once again, trailed by a fellow filmmaker hired to document the early Boneyard Press/GARBAGE MAN days and all the murder and mayhem they entailed.

Numerous sources report that science fiction memorabilia collector Forrest J Ackerman, the original editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, has passed away.