{"id":11671,"date":"2018-04-03T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2019-03-27T21:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T03:54:36","slug":"ebertfest-2018-films-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=11671","title":{"rendered":"Ebertfest 2018 films revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Roger Ebert's Film Festival (Logo type: Ebertfest.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_ebertfest_logotype.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On <strong>Monday, April 2<\/strong>, the <strong><a title=\"College of Media :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\" href=\"http:\/\/media.illinois.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">College of Media<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the <strong>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong> announced the full slate of movies to be showcased at the twentieth annual edition of <strong>Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival<\/strong> taking place on <strong>April 18-22, 2018<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wednesday, April 18<\/span><br \/>\n<em>7:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>THE FUGITIVE<\/strong> (1993, 130 min, D: Andrew Davis)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thursday, April 19<\/span><br \/>\n<em>12:00 p.m<\/em>. <strong>INTERSTELLAR<\/strong> (2014, 168 min., 70mm, D: Christopher Nolan)<br \/>\n<em>4:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>SELENA<\/strong> (1997, 127 min., D: Gregory Nava)<br \/>\n<em>8:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>BELLE<\/strong> (2014, 103 min., D: Amma Asante)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Friday, April 20<\/span><br \/>\n<em>12:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>COLUMBUS<\/strong> (2017, 104 min., D: Kogonada)<br \/>\n<em>3:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>A PAGE OF MADNESS<\/strong> (1926, 73 min., D: Teinosuke Kinugasa)<br \/>\nAccompanied by the Alloy Orchestra<br \/>\n<em>8:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>AMERICAN SPLENDOR<\/strong> (2003, 101 min., D: Shari Springer Berman &amp; Robert Pulcini)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saturday April 21<\/span><br \/>\n<em>10:30 a.m.<\/em> <strong>13TH<\/strong> (2016, 100 min., D: Ava DuVernay)<br \/>\n<em>2:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST<\/strong> (1992, 112 min., D: Julie Dash)<br \/>\n<em>5:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>RAMBLING ROSE<\/strong> (1991, 112 min., D: Martha Coolidge)<br \/>\n<em>9:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>THE BIG LEBOWSKI<\/strong> (1998, 117 min., D: Joel Coen)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sunday, April 22<\/span><br \/>\n<em>12:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD<\/strong> (2017, 102 min., D: Catherine Bainbridge &amp; Alfonso Maiorana)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Key festival guests this year include <strong>Andrew Davis<\/strong> (THE FUGITIVE), <strong>Amma Asante<\/strong> (BELLE), <strong>Ava DuVernay<\/strong> (13TH), and <strong>Julie Dash<\/strong> (DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival will take place at the <strong><a title=\"The Virginia Theatre :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thevirginia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Virginia Theatre<\/span><\/a>, 203 W. Park Ave., Champaign, IL<\/strong>. The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Roger Ebert's Film Festival :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebertfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201c<strong>Ebertfest<\/strong>\u201d Web site<\/a> <\/span>also features individual reviews and details of signings and panel discussions. Individual and bulk ticket sales went on sale <strong>Monday, April 2, 2018<\/strong>, while a small number of festival passes are still available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"BELLE (Fox Searchlight Pictures)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_ebertfest2018_belle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the twentieth annual edition of Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,30],"tags":[1894,1895,1899,1897,1900,72,1901,1230,1896,1898,564,108],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-public-events","category-roger-ebert","tag-andrew-davis","tag-ava-duvernay","tag-columbus","tag-daughters-of-the-dust","tag-interstellar","tag-roger-eberts-film-festival","tag-selena","tag-the-alloy-orchestra","tag-the-big-lebowski","tag-the-fugitive","tag-the-virginia-theater","tag-uiuc-college-of-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}