{"id":3274,"date":"2011-04-29T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:54:16","slug":"article-du-c-u-ebertfest-01-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Article du C-U: Ebertfest ’01, pt.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNot About Ebertfest 2011 \u2026 Yet\u201d<\/strong>
\nRemembering Movies and Other Nonesuch
\nfrom the 2001 Overlooked Film Festival<\/p>\n

by Jason Pankoke<\/em><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll admit it, friends. C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> has never been able to sustain a reliable \u201cEbertfest<\/strong>\u201d beat. We\u2019ve set up opportunities over the years for journalists to submit unique CUBlog <\/strong>discussion about Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival<\/strong><\/a>, returning for its 13th annual outing at the Virginia Theater<\/strong> in downtown Champaign, Illinois<\/strong>, but with little to show for it. Anthony Zoubek<\/strong> provided our only comprehensive piece a few years ago \u2013 during which he dissected the Ebertfest mystique as well as presentations of HAMLET, MISHIMA, HULK<\/strong>, and THE CELL<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 yet even then, personal matters prevented him from properly closing out the series.<\/p>\n

We honestly wonder how superfluous a CUBlog <\/strong>blow-by-blow of Ebertfest would be at this point. You can see from this News-Gazette<\/strong><\/span> post<\/a> that the UIUC College of Media<\/strong> sponsored event has no <\/em>shortage of Roger Ebert<\/strong> anointed bloggers and writers \u201cembedded\u201d in the Virginia audience, ready to provide instant critique\/promotion on top of the wordage generated by the N-G<\/span> and Chicago Sun-Times<\/strong><\/span>. As well, our own springtime activities have proliferated to a point where we\u2019re occupied right up through Opening Night, so we have to pick and choose what to spend time on for readers\u2019 Web consumption along with our non-Web responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Similar to last year, 2011 zapped us repeatedly like \u201cChambanah the Three-Headed Filmmonster,\u201d represented by our involvement in the second New Art Film Festival, C-U Confidential<\/strong> #5, and an end-of-April choice between presence at Ebertfest and\/or the Midwest Zine Fest<\/strong> tomorrow at Urbana<\/strong>\u2019s Independent Media Center<\/strong> and\/or concurrent local events. The multiplicity is a gift; time management has been our Achilles\u2019 heel.<\/p>\n

Ebertfest is a vital force in the movie culture of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond. Therefore, CUBlog <\/strong>should <\/em>give it due attention even though we consider it a part of the whole and not the annual cinema pinnacle most Ebertfest attendees probably think<\/em> it is. Soon you will see where our hearts have been leading us, considering how much both CUBlog\/CUZine<\/strong> and MICRO-FILM<\/strong> take pains to champion the little guy or gal, although it should not <\/em>discount the efforts by Ebert himself to champion a select few little gals and guys through his festival.<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of this series we\u2019ll come back to Ebertfest 2011, but we hope you will enjoy the ensuing \u201creprint\u201d of your humble editor\u2019s stab at describing his Ebertfest experience during the third occurrence on April 25-29, 2001<\/strong>. While some prose is colored with the greenness of a much younger writer than the one who drafts nearly everything appearing on CUBlog <\/strong>today, the report reflects cannily how unpredictable this week can be. \u201cUnlike most other people who live in C-U,\u201d wrote a 30-year-old Mr. JaPan<\/strong>, \u201cI inhabit what might be termed a parallel film universe.\u201d Certainly, the claim holds true a decade later.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll About Ebertfest 2001<\/strong>\u201d was originally written for Mike White<\/strong> and his superlative movie magazine Cashiers du Cinemart<\/strong><\/span>, in issue 13 of which he ran a lean and mean edit in 2002<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Updated 5\/2\/11, 12:45 a.m. CST]<\/p>\n


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:: Part 2<\/a> ::<\/p>\n

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Article \u00a9 2011 Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

Cover Graphic: \u00a9 Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival<\/a>\/Daily Illini<\/a><\/p>\n


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Our exclusive EbertFlashBackFest begins with a brand-new introduction as editor Jason Pankoke hints at a detached yet symbiotic relationship between C-U Blogfidential and Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, illustrated to a degree by his Ebertfest experiences from 10 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,14,137,15,13,30],"tags":[475,72],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-area-festivals","category-article-du-c-u","category-media-coverage","category-public-events","category-roger-ebert","tag-cashiers-du-cinemart","tag-roger-eberts-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}