Illinois-made independents, including Champaign-Urbana-Danville productions REVOLTING, AMBER ROSE, and IN VINO VERITAS, figure prominently in the schedule for the 10th annual Route 66 International Film Festival, coming September 15-17, 2011.
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In this edition of “The Double Life of a Cinéaste,” author Tyler Tharpe scrutinizes those unfortunate moments film festivals were not kind to his motion pictures or very person.
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The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is now accepting submissions for the upcoming IMC Film Festival taking place September 15-17, 2011.
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Is your newest scary movie either horrific, carnivalesque, zombietastic, or just plain freeky? Then we might have the film festivals within driving distance for you — to enter!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we simply have too much fruit to bear: calls for film festivals, calls for talent, a call for funding, a Hollywood actors’ seminar, a sequel, a play, and the movies now playing/renting near you! Oh, my!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Once upon a time in 2010, Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions of Champaign produced a comedy-action short called ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1972 which eventually gave birth to ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1973 not too long ago in 2011. Got it? Good.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” the DRUNK befriends extras, a DOG needs an FX whiz, CMM seeks a speaker, DEJA VIEW envisions Turkish stars & stripes, a birthday boy sucks down PBRs, and those fabulous new movies play/rent near you!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we list a festival job opportunity, note a theater up for sale, share a call for advertising entries, rib the participants in the RUBBER controversy, and relay which movies are now playing/renting near you!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we survive our brush with PARANOIA, pass along an ABIGAIL SHOW proposal, find a new outlet for Super 8 movies, and get back on track with mentioning the movies now playing/renting near you!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: In this third and final installment featuring images culled from our archives pertaining to the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond, we take a peek behind-the-scenes and then some!
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C-U Blogfidential’s monthly open forum, “Clean Slate,” asks once again what strikes moviegoers’ fancy when they watch films!
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C-U Blogfidential humbly requests that everyone who does not normally contribute to CUBlog should take a shot at writing something for CUBlog. Like, right now, por favor.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we raise a glass to Dark Maze’s Telly, crook our brow at SODO Theatre possibilities, applaud the symphony of Warren York’s life, and transform our calendar to show what movies are now playing/renting near you!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We interrupt our flow of old image business with something brand new – the DVD cover artwork for LEADING LADIES, coming soon from Wolfe Video!
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Time to get your background mojo on, kids, for SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL might just make a super extra out of you!
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