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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 7\/21: Shawnee E. Tefteller (owner, Shawnee Studios: Model & Talent Management\/Casting, Mt. Olive, IL)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n PASSINGS | You Will Be Missed<\/strong><\/p>\n 7\/12: Bill Viola, 73 (media and installation artist, Bill Viola Studio, Long Beach, CA)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n FIELD REPORT DU HQ | From Wherever It May Be Said<\/strong><\/p>\n The Report<\/strong> is on hiatus until August or September. Thank you for your readership, CUvians and Agents!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n IMAGERY DU C-U | Picturing Our Scene on the Screen<\/strong><\/p>\n Our Almanac<\/strong> repeat for the week reminds us the movies of Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond are only as viable as they are available. You can easily imagine that Ye Ed<\/strong> has cobbled together a collection of C-U movie ephemera over the last 30 years that includes a set of videos, including official releases that have already been out of print for some time. In the near future, given how far away MFHQ Deux<\/strong> is from our fair Twin Cities, we\u2019ll figure out how to make it all available for the historians du C-U to access once we\u2019re done with this grand Confidential project. In the meantime, we can offer snippets that will most likely be new to you. We recently retrieved all our old MICRO-FILM<\/strong> files from the MFHQ Cach\u00e9<\/strong> that is still hidden within Champaign County<\/strong> and, on topic to share for today, we have from the stash a cover design that was created for VHS copies of Mike Trippiedi<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s dark comedy, DOGS IN QUICKSAND<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which made its local public debut a quarter-century ago in 1999 at the former New Art Theater<\/strong> in downtown Champaign as part of the Freaky Film Festival<\/strong>. We had a color printout of the art, most likely given to us by Trippiedi himself, but the tape and the movie themselves are rare commodities. Good luck in finding it, folks.<\/p>\n ~~~~~<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n CONFIDENTIAL ALMANAC | Dates in Film Culture History<\/strong><\/p>\n 15 Years Ago<\/strong> \u2026 Tuesday, June 30, 2009:<\/em> Los Angeles<\/strong>-based distributor Indie-Pictures<\/strong> releases the Midwest horror drama THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong> on DVD, rescuing it from the well of lost motion pictures that were produced in the wake of the American \u201cindependent boom\u201d of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Originally filmed during the summer of 1993 in various local haunts and the dense student housing area to the west of the University of Illinois<\/strong> campus in Champaign-Urbana<\/strong>, this micro-budget endeavor relies on 16-millimeter grain, nonlinear cuts, tonal soundscapes, and the fa\u00e7ade of everyday normality to describe the life of a trash collector by day and serial killer by night as played by James Meredith<\/strong>. Director Hart D. Fisher<\/strong> amassed the tools and skills to shape THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong> into releasable form while he gravitated from self-publishing under his Boneyard Press<\/strong> imprint in Illinois<\/strong> to learning commercial video production in California<\/strong>, telling the horror culture website Bloody-Disgusting<\/strong> in 2014<\/span><\/a> that a sneak preview of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT<\/strong> reignited his fire to finish it. Indie-Pictures did not provide many favors to Fisher or THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong> apart from producing the disc itself; never listing or promoting the product on its website, weblog<\/a><\/span>, or YouTube<\/span><\/strong> account<\/span><\/a>, the company apparently went defunct a short while after the street date. Fisher soon began offering it as video-on-demand through American Horrors<\/span><\/strong>, a boutique \u201cextreme horror\u201d brand<\/span><\/a> developed with his wife Wakako Kawagoshi-Fisher<\/strong> and others that eventually spawned a free 24\/7 streaming channel of movies, music videos, and original programs via Roku<\/strong> and an annual film festival in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin<\/strong>. As reported on 11\/21\/07<\/a><\/span>, 2\/12\/09<\/a><\/span> at<\/em> CUBlog<\/span><\/strong>. [R]<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n LOCAL FILMS & EVENTS | Support Your Media Storytellers<\/strong><\/p>\n @ Shawnee Studios: Model & Talent Management\/Casting, Mt. Olive, IL<\/strong> \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> @ Main Quad, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL<\/strong> @ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL<\/strong> Events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Additional \u201cNow Playing\u201d and \u201cComing Soon\u201d listings appear after the jump!<\/em><\/p>\n ~~~~~<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NOW PLAYING | The Cities Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n @ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL<\/strong> @ The Fischer Theatre, Danville, IL<\/strong> @ The Harvest Moon Twin Drive-in, Gibson City, IL<\/strong> @ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL<\/strong> @ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nOpen house (7\/21, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.)<\/p>\n
\nBAD NEWZ (in Hindi with English sub), NATIONAL ANTHEM, ODDITY, TWISTERS, BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE, DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation), FLY ME TO THE MOON, INSIDE OUT 2 (animation), THE LION KING (animation) (re-release), LONGLEGS, MAXXXINE, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (7\/5 on), SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT (faith film) (7\/19 on), AMC \u201cScreen Unseen\u201d (mystery movie) (7\/22, 7 p.m.), DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, THE FABULOUS FOUR (7\/25 on)<\/p>\n
\nDISCIPLES IN THE MOONLIGHT (faith film), ODDITY, TWISTERS, BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE, DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation), FLY ME TO THE MOON, HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA \u2013 CHAPTER 1, INSIDE OUT 2 (animation), THE LION KING (animation) (re-release), LONGLEGS, MAXXXINE, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (7\/5 on), SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT (faith film) (7\/19 on), THE NEVERENDING STORY 40th anniversary (7\/21, 4 & 7 p.m.; 7\/22, 7 p.m.), HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS \u2013 PART 1 (7\/21, 3 & 7 p.m.; 7\/24, 7 p.m.), THE GOOD HALF feat. virtual discussion w\/Nick Jonas and director Robert Schwartzman (7\/23, 7\/25, 7 p.m.), The Metropolitan Opera \u201csummer encore\u201d: La Boh\u00e8me<\/span> (7\/24, 1 & 6:30 p.m., recorded), DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (7\/25 on)<\/p>\n
\nIllini Union Board presents \u201cSummer Films on the Quad\u201d feat. THE FALL GUY (7\/25, 9 p.m., free)<\/p>\n
\nIllini Radio Group presents \u201cRewind 92.5 Animation Vacation Movie Series\u201d feat. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (7\/22, 1 & 6:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n
\nTWISTERS, DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation), THE WIZARD OF OZ (3-D) (7\/18-7\/21)<\/p>\n
\nTOY STORY (animation) (7\/22, 2 p.m., free), Tee Pak Credit Union presents THE GOONIES (7\/25, 7:15 p.m., free)<\/p>\n
\nTWISTERS, tba (Screen 1), TWISTERS, DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation) (Screen 2) (7\/19-7\/21), TWISTERS (Screen 1), DESPICABLE ME 4 (animation) (Screen 2) (7\/22-7\/24), TWISTERS (Screen 1), DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (Screen 2) (7\/25)<\/p>\n
\nFOR YOUR EYES ONLY (7\/19-7\/21), MOONRAKER (7\/20-7\/21), THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER (7\/22, 7\/24), INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (7\/25)<\/p>\n
\nClosed for the week.<\/p>\n