C-U Blogfidential

THE LIFELINE: TRILOGY, a music film by University of Illinois graduate Chris Folkens, will play Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema in Chicago on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Article on Champaign Web site SmilePolitely.com that talks about the success and tenacity of That’s Rentertainment and Parasol Records against a highly altered merchant landscape in Champaign-Urbana that does not favor local establishments selling products for “intellgent consumption.”

THE INFORMANT has begun principal photography in Macon County, and the Decatur Herald & Review wants you to track Matt Damon’s every move. Or, not.

It’s time to get C-U Blogfidential back on track for the summer season!

EXTRA! Interview with the director of THE WONDER WORLD OF K. GORDON MURRAY.

“C-U Confidential” will be back on the beat during Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, April 23-27, 2008, in downtown Champaign, Illinois. Get it FOR FREE while supplies last!!!

Articles in Champaign daily The News-Gazette and Danville daily Commercial-News about the debut of Thomas Bender’s documentary HOOPESTON during the final installment of the New York Underground Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the tenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

Article in Bloomington (IL) daily The Pantagraph about Hollywood filmmaker Graham Streeter visiting Bloomington-Normal to scout locations for his upcoming narrative feature NORMAL FOLK, which will star Normal resident Marty Murphy as a woman living with severe autism. Also, your editor says what has to be said about location shooting locally.

Articles in Decatur daily Herald & Review about the impending location shooting of Steven Soderbergh’s next studio picture, THE INFORMANT, in Decatur, IL, this April and May. Also, your editor scolds a well-meaning group for taking initiative on something that wasn’t theirs to begin with.

A preview in The Hollywood Reporter covers the upcoming 10th edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in Champaign, IL, revealing that the opening night attraction is a 70mm print of HAMLET (1996), directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Several articles report on the passing of this former Champaign-Urbana student and photographer, who was involved in the rise of Ron Epple’s Expanded Cinema.

On three consecutive freelance jobs that cut in during the current C-U Confidential dance, your editor demonstrates the three basics of print media: writin’, illustratin’, and designin’.

Oft-ignored corners of the C-U Blogfidential universe finally get their due. In this episode, three truant Pages finally catch up to the pack and complete the inner circle.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the Lincoln FilmFest, planned by former Ebertfest executive director Nancy Casey and C-U historian Dannel McCollum, to take place March 13-15, 2009, at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign. Also, your editor ruminates about a little bit of this and a little bit of that.