C-U Blogfidential

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.

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

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

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

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.

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: 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).

Article in Champaign newspaper The Daily Illini about the debut of JEAN SHORTS, a half-hour comedy directed by University of Illinois students Sam Copeland and Roshan Murthy.

Oft-ignored corners of the C-U Blogfidential universe finally get their due. In this episode, two additional Pages jump on the bandwagon.

Three downstate Illinois productions – PRESS START, LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD, and NEAR MISS – are now available on DVD.