C-U Blogfidential

Article and video in Bloomington (IL) daily The Pantagraph about the grand opening of the Stadium 14 cinemas in Normal on Friday, February 27, 2009. Also, your editor is suddenly rarin’ to bitch again like in the good ol’ days.

Asian Cult Cinema magazine reports that staff writer Graham R. Lewis, a faculty member of Eastern Illinois University, has died.

Exercise your acting bug by playing a bar patron in the Mike Boedicker movie REVOLTING or auditioning for a role in the costume drama A DINNER WITH THE MAFIA, both taking place tomorrow, Saturday, February 21, 2009.

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at the Champaign Public Library in Champaign, IL, on Wednesday, February 18, 2009.

This month’s outing of community art critique A Call to Arts will take place tonight, Tuesday, February 17, 2009, in the auditorium of the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign. Bring locally made films to discuss with the audience!

C-U Confidential cannot three-peat this April without your assistance, dear readers.

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

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this fourth entry, he fawns mercilessly over MISHIMA.

The first IMC Film Festival, a “celebration of the art of cinematography,” will take place February 6-8, 2009, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in the old Post Office building in downtown Urbana, IL.

Chicago-based Premonition Pictures, which produced the student life cable-television drama ONE FINE DAY! in Champaign-Urbana, will return this spring to shoot a feature called A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW.

Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, has announced that it will release an English-dubbed edition of the 1986 Turkish action epic KORKUSUZ to DVD as RAMPAGE on April 28, 2009.

Members of a bridge club in conservative, small-town Farmland, IN, (seemingly) bare all in a fundraising effort to save a historic building in THE COURTHOUSE GIRLS OF FARMLAND, which plays the Normal Theater in Normal, IL, on February 3-4, 2009.

Kate Hathaway the experimenting musician becomes Kate Hathaway the budding videographer with this six-minute piece about an inspiration, Charles Joseph Smith.

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this third entry, he offers a HAMLET assessment.

Urbana native Roger Ebert sings the praises of Urbana native Nina Paley’s film SITA SINGS THE BLUES, which might just play in a certain Champaign film festival in April.