C-U Blogfidential

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we reveal DISCONNECT on DVD, marvel at Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival timing, give big ups to Big Muddy Film Festival, and volunteer the scoop on what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, has formally announced that their newest production, PRESS START 2 CONTINUE, will be available on DVD beginning March 11, 2011.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Our friend Alaric Rocha of Blue Bassoon Pictures in Chicago has completed his Super 8 movie short, WINTER, which he and a local crew filmed in the Decatur outskirts a year ago.

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we remind you to attend Champaign Movie Makers, patronize the Central Illinois Film Commission, submit to the New Art Film Festival, and watch what movies are now playing/renting near you!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We collect, embed, and dissect a handful of recent videos made by current and former members of Illini Film & Video at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!

C-U Blogfidential’s monthly open forum, “Clean Slate,” asks what you feel the C-U needs for its filmmaking population to thrive!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we share updates on Gladius Arts projects, suggest additional film festivals to enter, slip in another plug for CUZine advertising, and substantiate what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Forget the frigid snowstorm, Champaign-Urbana, there’s a simmering firestorm of filmic intensity coming your way in the form of C-U Confidential issue 5 – including its new trusty sidekick, the exclusive “Filmography Insert” – but they can’t battle for truth, justice, and the artisan way without your advertising dollars!

The next meeting of Illini Film & Video will be on Monday, January 31, 2011, 8:30 p.m., in Room 259 of the UIUC English Building on the Main Quad.

Friends, filmmakers, countrymen, lend us your ears! The New Art Film Festival will return to the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL, on Friday, April 8, 2011, and we need your submissions and attendance to make it a hit!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we applaud AMBER ROSE, pine for PRESS START 2, shill for Krannert Art Museum, stump for IL/MO/CA film festivals, request your C-U words, and tell what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Look everybody, it’s a C-U Blogfidential contest! We have three DVD copies of Dreamscape Cinema’s SHEEBA from Questar Home Video to hand out … don’t you want to know how to win?

Despite nearly all-new subject matter discussed by fresh hosts and correspondents, this is pretty much your mother and father’s AT THE MOVIES set to a slightly more rapid beat. And it makes us happy.

In the premiere of C-U Blogfidential’s new column, “The Double Life of a Cinéaste,” author Tyler Tharpe explains why he moved to Hollywood and back in the pursuit of making his own movies.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It’s time for another dose of “remakesploitation” mayhem through the lens of DEJA VIEW, the Web series from Dark Maze Studios of Champaign! We also pass along a new teaser image from their upcoming movie, PRESS START 2 CONTINUE, coming to DVD on March 11!