Archive for December, 2007

PRAIRIE FIRE tapes Lincoln scenes

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Article in Bloomington (IL) daily The Pantagraph about the producers of the WILL-TV program, PRAIRIE FIRE, filming scenes in Funks Grove, Illinois, for an upcoming episode depicting the early life of Abraham Lincoln.

CLEAN SLATE: December 2007

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

This month’s topic: What are you doing in 2008?

K. Gordon Murray schlocks again!

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

The official Web site for the upcoming documentary, THE WONDER WORLD OF K. GORDON MURRAY, is scheduled to go live Monday, December 24, 2007.

Q&A du C-U: Ed Glaser

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Interview with the director of PRESS START and numerous other Dark Maze Studios films.

SCREAMING APE to stuff stockings

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

C-U’s very own Screaming Ape sounds off on a brand-new DVD-R of his first escapade, THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE, from BrainSmart Productions.

Fifth public-access channel afoot?

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Articles in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the discussion of an independent recommendation to establish a fifth local public-access channel that would be jointly operated by Champaign and Urbana. Also, your editor bitches about something he already bitched about earlier this year.

Coming Soon: December 2007

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Coming Soon: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET and NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION at Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (12/1/07), Christmas movie marathon at Normal Theater, Normal, IL (12/1-23/07), Illini Film & Video weekly meetings at English Building, UIUC, Urbana, IL (12/3-10/07), CU Video Group monthly meeting at Rock’s, Champaign, IL (12/5/07), and THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING at Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Champaign, IL (12/6/07).