In this edition of “The Double Life of a Cinéaste,” author Tyler Tharpe puts up his dukes to block the digital double sucker punch being thrust onto independents by both the motion picture exhibition and production industries.
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We want YOU to provide the cinematic BOO in the C-U tonight! Read on to find out how right here on C-U Ghoulfidential!
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Think you’re in the home stretch of Champaign-Urbana cinema happenings for the fall, gang? Not by a long shot! Witness Thursday, November 1, 2012, which is the last day you can register for Illini Film & Video’s 49-hour-long filmmaking challenge this weekend *and* the first day you can reserve Roger Ebert’s Film Festival passes!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We skip the heebies and the jeebies tonight to bring you a touch of bittersweet romantic bliss courtesy of a Timothy Ro-directed music video for the song “Midnight Love” by Mokhov.
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We have news for you, dearest readers. All of your favorite fall-time film happenings are going to happen RIGHT NOW. Well, almost. You’ll want to read on for the details about … are you ready? … the Freeky Creek Short Film Festival, the Drunken Zombie Film Festival, the Embarrass Valley Film Festival, the Route 66 International Film Festival, and the Central Illinois Film Expo & Trade Show. Seriously.
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Select movie listings for October 26-November 1, 2012 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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C-U Confidential teams up with Psychic Joker Entertainment to present the not-so-lost retro movie gems of today and yesteryear with “The Time Traveling Cinema” at SoDo Theatre in Champaign, Illinois! On October 26, 2012, misunderstood forces and ancient religions take the stage in WHITE ZOMBIE starring Bela Lugosi and HAXAN narrated by William S. Burroughs!
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Select movie listings for October 19-25, 2012 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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If you’re in the market for unique pop culture goodies that you won’t find through MegaOnLineMerchants or a HumungousBoxStore near you, we’ll have you covered at the next C-U Flea swap meet at Parasol on Saturday, October 20, 2012, starting at 12 p.m.!
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Let’s make a little more noise this week about local movie-making new to disc, shall we? You may now rock out to the DVD of Bob Zimmerman’s C-U rock-and-roll documentary OUT OF NOWHERE, released in September 2012!
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So stealthily did it advance that it slipped right past us! Therefore, we guess there’s no better time than the present to let you know Season One of Dark Maze Studios’ NINJA THE MISSION FORCE has been available on DVD since August 7, 2012.
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Select movie listings for October 12-18, 2012 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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On this slo-mo Saturday afternoon we shake it up by delivering a trailer, poster, and the cold hard facts about the Springfield-made THE CINEMA SNOB MOVIE, released to DVD for your high falutin’ consumption on September 25, 2012!
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The former White Horse Inn building in Campustown looks to be saturated with Seventies kitsch this weekend when Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions moves in to film a disco scene for ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1977. Can you dig it enough to show up and help out?
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Select movie listings for October 5-11, 2012 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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