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Our movie and media Calendar appears every Friday\/Saturday on <\/em>C-U Blogfidential<\/span> <\/strong>and caters to the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<\/em><\/p>\n ~~~~~<\/p>\n MILESTONES | Happy Birthday to You!<\/strong><\/p>\n 1\/7: Steve Christopher (actor, 13 SLAYS TILL X-MAS, Blood Moon Pictures, Owensboro, KY) \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n FIELD REPORT DU HQ | From Wherever It May Be Said<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, right<\/em>, I\u2019m so slick that I picked the perfect weekend to take forever on compiling the Calendar<\/strong>, jolting it to life just as a treacherous coating of very thin ice covers Illinois<\/strong>. Please play it smart and stay put if you can help it. Most of this week\u2019s movies will play again somewhere from Monday on, except for the few houses that decided to temporarily close for their reasons. Not much afoot at MFHQ Remote<\/strong> to share, anyway. We\u2019ll have a pair of posts next week and ideas have been tumbling about in regards to activities in the near future. We\u2019ll make announcements about the ones that gel when we can. Until then, have an impromptu and brand-new Almanac<\/strong> entry to kick off 2022 that I spent way too much time cross-checking in the Daily Illini<\/span><\/strong> archives of the invaluable Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections<\/strong> hosted online by the University Library<\/strong> at UI. It\u2019s the good kind of rabbit hole to be sucked down into after a blah day.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n CONFIDENTIAL ALMANAC | Dates in Film Culture History<\/strong><\/p>\n 100 Years Ago<\/strong> \u2026 Monday, January 9, 1922:<\/em> For tonight and the next two evenings, the Orpheum Theatre<\/strong> in downtown Champaign<\/strong> includes in their vaudeville bill a student-made photoplay, A DAY AT ILLINOIS<\/strong>, conceived and photographed by Clarence Welsh<\/strong> of the class of \u201823. Similar to PRO PATRIA<\/strong>, the melodramatic and made-on-campus production by students from a few seasons ago, ILLINOIS<\/strong> strings together images of the University of Illinois<\/strong> and undergraduate life with a storyline, although the focus in Welsh\u2019s hands seems to be on documentation and school spirit instead of stirring intrigue of a fictitious sort. The more straightforward idea involves a pair of siblings enrolled at Illinois, played by Thelma Scott<\/strong> \u201823 and football and basketball star Charles \u201cChuck\u201d Carney<\/strong> \u201822, who meet up with their parents, played by engineering professor A.M. Talbot<\/strong> and Kappa Alpha Theta<\/strong> chaperone Harriett Barr<\/strong>, and they all enjoy the wonders of university by land and air during homecoming. Sights promised in the picture, as teased by several Daily Illini<\/span><\/strong> articles from the fall and advertisements in recent issues<\/a><\/span>, include the greenhouses, the Union<\/strong>, the Illinois Central<\/strong> train station, R.O.T.C.<\/strong> maneuvers, football pageantry, and bird\u2019s eye vistas taken from an airplane. Welsh\u2019s faculty supervisor for the project is C.H. Woolbert<\/strong>, professor in the department of public speaking, and it will be shown to booster and civic groups all around the state of Illinois<\/strong>, as told to the DI<\/span> by director of university publicity Josef F. Wright<\/strong> in the November 16<\/strong> issue. This will follow the unveiling of A DAY AT ILLINOIS<\/strong> in the Champaign community today and its premiere for the student body that was held last semester at the Auditorium<\/strong> on Thursday, December 8<\/strong>. It is presumed that \u201cmany of the scenes finished in colors\u201d in the three-reel promotion, which runs around 45 minutes, are tinted by hand as is done with many popular movies from Hollywood<\/strong> that appear at the local cinemas.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area<\/strong><\/p>\n @ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL<\/strong> @ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL<\/strong>
\n1\/12: Damian Duffy, (adapter & letterer, Octavia Butler\u2019s Parable of the Sower<\/span>, Abrams ComicArts, New York, NY)<\/p>\n
\nTHE 355, \u201983, AMERICAN UNDERDOG, GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN, THE KING\u2019S MAN, THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS, SING 2, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, WEST SIDE STORY (1\/7 on), BELLE, SCREAM (1\/13 on)<\/p>\n
\nTHE 355, AMERICAN UNDERDOG, ENCANTO, GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN, THE KING\u2019S MAN, LICORICE PIZZA, THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, SING 2, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, WEST SIDE STORY (1\/7 on), STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1\/9, 3 & 7 p.m.; 1\/12, 7 p.m.), SCREAM (1\/13 on)<\/p>\n