{"id":259,"date":"2008-03-15T21:58:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:14","slug":"ebert-appoints-hamlet-for-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Ebert appoints HAMLET for &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em>From March 12, 2008:<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Roger Ebert looks forward to 10th edition of eponymous festival :: The Hollywood Reporter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i28f93d938052f66a302d1b700564832e\" target=\"_blank\">Click to Read<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">A preview\u00a0in\u00a0<strong><u>The\u00a0Hollywood Reporter<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0covers the upcoming 10th edition of <strong>Roger Ebert&#8217;s Film Festival<\/strong> in <strong>Champaign,\u00a0IL<\/strong>,\u00a0revealing that the opening night attraction is a 70mm print of <strong>HAMLET<\/strong> (1996), directed by <strong>Kenneth Branagh<\/strong>, and that festival guests will include <strong>Paul Schrader<\/strong> (<strong>AUTO FOCUS<\/strong>), <strong>Sally Potter<\/strong> (<strong>THE TANGO LESSON<\/strong>), <strong>Fred Schepisi<\/strong> (<strong>FIERCE CREATURES<\/strong>), and <strong>Bill Forsyth<\/strong> (<strong>LOCAL HERO<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/em>\u00a0Let&#8217;s demystify the annual ritual where people approach me prematurely and ask what&#8217;s playing <strong>Ebertfest<\/strong>. I find out these things at the exact same time as <strong>John Q. Public<\/strong> &#8211; the third week of March &#8211; even though it is common practice\u00a0for <strong>Roger Ebert<\/strong> or one of his confidants to let slip a little bit of information early as a tease. By the same token, the credits I noted for the guest filmmakers are just for illustration and\u00a0not official 2008 selections. Cineastes now know the important selling points for the moment, but rabid Ebertfestarians can glean a few more details from the article linked above.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Elsewhere, the charming Associate Director of Ebertfest,\u00a0<strong>Mary Susan Britt<\/strong>, announced\u00a0that parking spaces next to the <strong>Mental Health Center<\/strong>, across the street from\u00a0the <strong>Virginia Theatre<\/strong> where Ebertfest takes place, can be rented for $100 for the duration of the event. You can guess what is going to happen &#8211; attendees with money to burn will snap up all the spots, giving the locals who&#8217;ve been complaining about the hike in downtown meter prices yet another reason to bitch. (Seventy-five cents an hour sounds reasonable all of a sudden, doesn&#8217;t it?) I can honestly say that I&#8217;m glad I planted the <strong>Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> right where it is, because\u00a0all I have to do is walk. <em>Nyah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preview in The Hollywood Reporter covers the upcoming 10th edition of Roger Ebert&#8217;s Film Festival in Champaign, IL, revealing that the opening night attraction is a 70mm print of HAMLET (1996), directed by Kenneth Branagh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-media-coverage","category-roger-ebert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}