C-U Blogfidential

Festival passes for the next Overlooked Film Festival, taking place at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign on April 25-29, 2007, go on sale today!

MICRO-FILM turns seven years old today! Post your hurrahs, anecdotes, and future predictions by Sunday, November 12, 2006.

MICRO-FILM scares up yet another MICRO-FILM Movie Show! This time, we present a horror double-bill featuring DRAWING BLOOD and SEX MACHINE at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in Champaign, IL, on Saturday, October 28, 2006.

Tonight, October 20, 2006, 9 p.m., The Highdive in downtown Champaign hosts a free concert by local band JigGsaw that will be videotaped for future release, while LIX presents a midnight revival of AMERICAN PSYCHO a few blocks away at Boardman’s Art Theatre.

Coming Soon: Tournees French Film Festival at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/13-19/06), Brainsmart Productions Film Festival at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s, Champaign, IL (10/15-16/06), Human Rights Film Festival at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, Champaign, IL (10/19-26/06), and THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY at the Natural History Building, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/27/06).

Reviews of SHOT from Champaign-Urbana, IL.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, October 4, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

Interview with the director of THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY and former president of Illini Film & Video.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the “Audio-Visual Self-Assessment Program,” an initiative by the University of Illinois Library to develop a computerized system that will aid collectors and archivists in analyzing media holdings.

Reviews of COMIC BOOK ISSUES and COMIC BOOKS: THE SILENT KILLER from Bloomington-Normal, IL.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about decision by owner-operator Greg Boardman to temporarily close the Lorraine Theatre in Hoopeston, IL, for two weeks, as well as the movie house’s impending sale.

Illini Film & Video takes it to the streets … and RobotMan tags along for the ride!

Coming Soon: LAGE RAHO MUNNA BHAI at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (9/23-24/06), the Manhattan Short Film Fest at the Normal Theatre, Normal, IL (9/23/06), DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (1920) also at the Normal Theatre (9/28/06), and several Luis Bunuel films at the Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Champaign, IL (9/28/06, 10/19/06).

Film festivals rule downstate Illinois this month as the Route 66 Film Festival (September 16-17, 2006, Springfield), Embarras Valley Film Festival (September 20-23, 2006, Charleston), and Asian Film Festival: South Korea (September 29-30, 2006, Champaign) vie for the attention of cinephiles everywhere.

I THINK YOU’RE F***ING STUPID, a short by local filmmaker Alaric Rocha, dares to tell it like it is at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival on Saturday, September 30, 2006, 10:30 p.m. Also, Rocha nears completion on another short, MERRY CHRISTMAS!