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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 4\/2: Will \u201cthe Thrill\u201d Viharo (movie columnist, Bachelor Pad Magazine<\/span>, Champaign, IL) \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n FIELD REPORT DU HQ | From Wherever It May Be Said<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m putting this one together posthaste and MFHQ Remote<\/strong>-ly because the power has yet to be restored at MFHQ Deux<\/strong> after last night\u2019s storm. Therefore, as the corporate mermaid emblem is my witness, I\u2019m keeping it short and sweet as we talk student opportunity. Undergraduate organizers of the UIUC Film Festival<\/strong>, a classroom-based lab event that is sponsored by the Media and Cinema Studies<\/strong> department at the UI College of Media<\/strong>, finally announced a Call for Entries window on Weds., Mar. 22<\/strong>, that closes very soon on Fri., Apr 7<\/strong>; get your submissions in using the form at this webpage<\/a><\/span>. The same weekend this event takes place at the UI\u2019s Spurlock Museum<\/strong> on Fri., Apr. 28<\/strong>, the Foxtail Film Festival<\/strong> will make its debut at the Normal Theater<\/strong> in downtown Normal<\/strong> from Apr. 27<\/strong> to 30<\/strong>; the programs comprised of work made by college and high school students have been vetted by Illinois State University<\/strong> collegiates enrolled in \u201cFilm Festival Management and Curation\u201d through the ISU School of Communication<\/strong> and selected by faculty from various disciplines. Details about Foxtail will eventually be posted to this website<\/a><\/span>. Last for today is simply an observation from a distance that Illini Film & Video<\/strong>, the long-standing UI movie-making club that would celebrate its 25th anniversary during the 2024-5 academic year, has a nearly stagnant public presence that is a bit concerning; witness their not-really-active website<\/a><\/span>, Facebook<\/strong> page<\/a><\/span>, and YouTube<\/strong> channel<\/a><\/span>, as well as an Instagram<\/strong> account<\/a><\/span> that is probably on a private setting. To us, IFV has a special place in campus film and a lively IFV is a healthy IFV. Don\u2019t let it flicker away, young friends.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n CONFIDENTIAL ALMANAC | Dates in Film Culture History<\/strong><\/p>\n 55 Years Ago<\/strong> \u2026 Tuesday, April 2, 1968:<\/em> The Uptown Theater<\/strong> in Washington, D.C.<\/strong>, hosts the world premiere of MGM<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cultimate trip,\u201d 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY<\/strong>, after nearly three years in production. Moviegoers in the house are left stunned by the film, borne of a collaboration between meticulous director Stanley Kubrick<\/strong> and renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke<\/strong>, due to its groundbreaking visual effects, canny use of classical music, and radical avoidance of \u201csci-fi\u201d and Hollywood<\/strong> narrative clich\u00e9. Based on Clarke\u2019s 1950 novella \u201cThe Sentinel<\/strong>,\u201d 2001<\/strong> depicts mankind\u2019s encounters with glassy monoliths planted in myriad corners of our galaxy; astronauts played by Keir Dullea<\/strong> and Gary Lockwood<\/strong> journey to one such site on the starship Discovery<\/span> and must contend not only with the implications of alien intelligence but also rebellion by the onboard computer, HAL 9000, enigmatically voiced by Douglas Rain<\/strong>. In one of several soon-to-be-iconic sequences, David Bowman (Dullea) lowers himself into HAL\u2019s machinery to shut down its memory bank. As the computer verbally regresses to its earliest interactions with humans, it restates one of its first sentences before going dead: \u201cGood afternoon, gentlemen. I am the HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. Lab in Urbana, Illinois<\/strong>, on the twelfth of January, 1992.\u201d Although many have presumed this dialogue is a nod to the long history of computer technology innovation at the University of Illinois<\/strong>, Clarke himself clarified in a 1992 interview<\/span><\/a> for the Chicago Tribune<\/span><\/strong> that he cited Urbana as a tribute to a former math professor of his, George C. McVittie<\/strong>, who was head of the UIUC astronomy department<\/span><\/a> at the time of production. In the best-selling novelization, written by Clarke and an uncredited Kubrick parallel to the film\u2019s development, HAL instead notes January 1997 as its activation date. UIUC would play upon this by scheduling the \u201cCyberfest<\/strong>\u201d campus symposium<\/a><\/span> in March 1997<\/strong>, complete with a 2001<\/strong> screening emceed by Roger Ebert<\/strong> at the Virginia Theatre<\/strong> in downtown Champaign<\/strong>. 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\n4\/4: Kamelya Alexan (filmmaker, CHANGING THE DISCIPLE, Chicago, IL)
\n4\/4: Sara Benson (adjunct assistant professor, School of Information Sciences, UIUC, Champaign, IL)<\/p>\n
\nBHOLAA (in Hindi), DASARA (in Telugu or Hindi), DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES, HIS ONLY SON (faith film), ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA, COCAINE BEAR, CREED III, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, SCREAM VI, SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS (3\/31 on), THE JOURNEY: A MUSIC SPECIAL FROM ANDREA BOCELLI (4\/2-4\/4, 4\/6), ONE TRUE LOVES (4\/5, 7 p.m.), AIR, THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE (animation) (4\/5 on)<\/p>\n
\nIllini Union Board presents \u201cSpring 2023 Weekend Films\u201d feat. BABYLON; (3\/31-4\/1, 7 p.m., free w\/i-card)<\/p>\n
\nDUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES, HIS ONLY SON (faith film), A THOUSAND AND ONE, CREED III, JESUS REVOLUTION, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH, SCREAM VI, SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS (3\/31 on), 65, ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA, COCAINE BEAR (3\/31-4\/4), The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff<\/span> (4\/1, 11:50 a.m., simulcast; 4\/5, 1 & 6:30 p.m. recorded), THE JOURNEY: A MUSIC SPECIAL FROM ANDREA BOCELLI (4\/2 on), THE LAND BEFORE TIME (animation) (4\/2, 3, 5 & 7 p.m.; 4\/5, 5:15 & 7 p.m.), AIR, THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE (animation) (4\/5 on)<\/p>\n