C-U Blogfidential

C-U Blogfidential starts off Year 3 with growing confidence and occasional hints of annoyance.

The BNFilmFest is accepting submissions through Friday, May 2, for its annual event, which will take place May 13-14, 2008, at the Normal Theater in Normal, IL.

Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, Illinois, has embarked on an itinerary of labyrinthine proportions now that their first feature, PRESS START, has been completed.

It’s moments like these when the words and actions of other “movie people” in the area simply get your editor’s goat. Therefore, your editor bitches.

Your editor doesn’t have much to add regarding the NIU shootings except for the obvious – we feel for the victims.

Coming Soon: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES @ Normal Theater, Normal, IL (2/16/08), Springfield and Central Illinois Film Commission meeting @ Kicks, Springfield, IL (2/21/08), African Film Festival @ Beverly Cinemas, Champaign, IL (2/22-28/08), Insect Fear Film Festival @ Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC, Urbana, IL (2/23/08), Dead of Winter Film Festival @ Lincoln Theatre, Decatur, IL (3/1/08), and Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour @ Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (3/6/08).

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about Carl Deal, who won the Grand Jury Prize for documentary filmmaking at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for the feature, TROUBLE THE WATER, along with Tia Lessin. Also, your editor bitches about bad reporting by others that indirectly thwarts the C-U Blogfidential mission.

Review of THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY from Champaign-Urbana, IL.

Coming Soon: CHINA BLUE @ Armory Building, UIUC, Champaign, IL (1/23/08), CITIZEN KANE @ Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (1/12/08), and [in time time] installation @ Tarble Arts Center, EIU, Charleston, IL (now-2/24/08).

Oft-ignored corners of the C-U Blogfidential universe finally get their due. In this episode, four exemplary Pages sprout a little elucidation.

The next meeting of Illini Film & Video will be on Tuesday, January 15, 2008, at 7 p.m. in the basement lounge of the UIUC English Building on the Main Quad.

Once again, classic and contemporary Hollywood find a home at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign thanks to the News-Gazette’s on-going Film Series.

C-U Blogfidential friends Damian Duffy and John Jennings will finally see their graphic novel, “The Hole: Consumer Culture,” appear in book stores nationwide this April.

Coming Soon: IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD @ Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (1/12/08), NIGHT OF THE DEMON @ Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (1/18/08), and Film Noir class @ Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (1/24-3/13/08).

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.