C-U Blogfidential

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we share LEADING LADIES DVD news, hint at a new Heroic Age in local movie-making, trust NCSA to depict THE TREE OF LIFE truthfully, and horde the titles of movies now playing/renting near you!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: In this second of three installments featuring images culled from our archives pertaining to the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond, we highlight (mostly older) random activity!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we hook you up with THE DRUNK, press you to feel the PARANOIA, beg you to raid your closet for Seventies threads, and hope you pay mind to all the movies now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we unearth a COMMUNIST plot, find a good reason to JUMP IN, improvise a CHARLESTON happy dance, introduce new film fest possibilities, and relish the movies now playing/renting near you!

C-U Blogfidential’s monthly open forum, “Clean Slate,” asks what strikes moviegoers’ fancy when they watch films!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Ah, the ephemera of the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond we sometimes forget we have… In this first of three installments featuring images culled from our archives, student bodies of area colleges represent!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we give props to CUBlog & CUZine contributors past, wish out loud for future contributors to make themselves known to us, and reveal much movie-related opportunity brewing near you!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get groovy with the ghoulies invading this week’s installment, in which we posit scientifical evidence that local-ish movies such as THE WINDOW INTO TIME and DOUBLE DOSE OF TERROR!! really exist.

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we thank our CUZine advertisers, thank goodness you have numerous film shoots and film fests to engage, and thank our lucky stars that new movies are now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of “The Double Life of a Cinéaste,” author Tyler Tharpe ponders the apparent film industry need to manufacture movies that work overtime saying what they really mean.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Although media activists Stephanie Stean and Paul Holze have relocated from the C-U to Tucson, Arizona, we’re updating the status of their life-in-South Africa documentary, THE STORY OF HAPPINESS, including what it has to do with YouTube’s push to propagate original content! Also, we like them lots, so just try and stop us.

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we highly suggest that you appear in a robot movie, take a photo class in Iceland, help a design firm shoot green screen, camp out at a UI movie marathon, and patronize the movies now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we confirm the next Champaign Movie Makers meeting, spill on a local documentary opp, encourage the watching of films-from-books, and deposit the skinny on the movies now playing/renting near you!

C-U Blogfidential’s monthly open forum, “Clean Slate,” asks what “non-essential” equipment filmmakers should have on hand anyway!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we think you should applaud LEADING LADIES, attend FALLING UP, try out for the Indy/C-U indie, apply for a video editing job, and soak up as many of the movies now playing/renting near you as possible!