{"id":235,"date":"2007-12-01T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:34","slug":"coming-soon-december-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: December 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following special events and meetings\u00a0are \u201ccoming soon\u201d to the area in December. Please support this diverse film programming by attending, spreading the word, and becoming active!<\/em><\/p>\n

We hope you’ve come out of your turkey coma and formulated a plan of action as the gifting season has fallen across the land! Not much cinematic diversion lies ahead as Xmas pursuits occupy us all and Hollywood begins its annual late-year push of, well, everything it can muster, so expect Coming Soon<\/strong> to appear sporadically during the next two months. And now, we highlight some seasonal movie cheer and otherwise recurring motifs:<\/p>\n

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Saturday, December 1, 1 & 7 p.m.<\/strong>: Revival houses love<\/em> to\u00a0dust off\u00a0Christmas-themed, family-friendly fare at the end of the year so, if such cinematic tidings happen to float your boat (or sled, or sleigh, or whatever…), then Kris Kringle (in MIRACLE ON 34TH<\/strong> STREET<\/strong>, 1947, 1 p.m.) and Clark Griswold (in NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS<\/strong> VACATION<\/strong>, 1989, 7 p.m.) have got your back.\u00a0@ The Virginia Theatre, 203 W. Park St., Champaign<\/strong>. $3. Click for more<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 1<\/strong> through Sunday, December 23<\/strong>: The “greatest hits” of holiday movie perennials continues 50 miles away: ELF<\/strong> (2003, 12\/1-2<\/strong>), WHITE CHRISTMAS<\/strong> (1951, 12\/6-9<\/strong>), A CHRISTMAS CAROL<\/strong> (1938, 12\/13-14<\/strong>), A CHRISTMAS STORY<\/strong> (1983, 12\/15-16<\/strong>), and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE<\/strong> (1946, 12\/20-23<\/strong>). All shows begin at 7 p.m.<\/strong> and, luckily, we posted this just late enough to avoid directing your attention to the past two evenings’ presentations of that\u00a0horrid HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS<\/strong>\u00a0thing with Jim Carrey<\/strong>. Bleh.<\/em> Long live Boris Karloff<\/strong> and\u00a0Chuck Jones<\/strong>! @ The Normal Theater, 209 North St., Normal<\/strong>. $6\/adults, $5\/children. Click for more<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday,\u00a0December 3<\/strong> and Monday, December 10,\u00a07:30 p.m.<\/strong>: The Illini Film &\u00a0Video<\/strong>\u00a0club will congregate two more times this semester. @\u00a0Basement lounge, English Building, UIUC, 608 S. Wright St., Champaign.<\/strong> Free.\u00a0Click for more<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday,\u00a0December 5, 7 p.m.<\/strong>: The CU Video Group<\/strong>\u00a0meets to discuss topics relating to video production. Hosted by Virginia Steffen<\/strong>. @ Rocks, 25 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign.<\/strong> Free. Contact Virginia with questions<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, December 6, 5:30 p.m.<\/strong>: The IPRH Film Series<\/strong>\u00a0continues with a screening and discussion of\u00a0THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING<\/strong>\u00a0(2003), directed by\u00a0Jill Sprecher<\/strong>\u00a0and starring Matthew McConaughey<\/strong>\u00a0and Alan Arkin<\/strong>,\u00a0and how it relates to the year-long theme of “rupture.” Sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities<\/strong>. @ KAM Auditorium (Room 62), Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign<\/strong>. Free. Click for more<\/a><\/p>\n

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That’s it … at least, until we discover more exciting things “Coming Soon” to a theater near C-U!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coming Soon: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET and NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION at Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (12\/1\/07), Christmas movie marathon at Normal Theater, Normal, IL (12\/1-23\/07), Illini Film & Video weekly meetings at English Building, UIUC, Urbana, IL (12\/3-10\/07), CU Video Group monthly meeting at Rock’s, Champaign, IL (12\/5\/07), and THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING at Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Champaign, IL (12\/6\/07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-meetings","category-public-events","category-student-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}