{"id":3413,"date":"2011-05-12T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:54:15","slug":"c-u-biz-en-scene-05-12-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"C-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne: 05.12.2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cC-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne\u201d appears every Thursday\/Friday on <\/em><strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong><em> to give our readers a succinct snapshot of the cinema activity in and near <\/em><strong>Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<\/strong><em>. Please support the artists and their work, attend screenings and events, and otherwise become active in our esoteric little world!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>MFHQ &amp; YOU:<br \/>\nPlease Check Your \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d Jokes at the Door<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We\u2019ve also banned the concept of \u201cbad luck\u201d from the bowels of the <strong>Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong>. Those in the know happen to, <em>um<\/em>, know why. (If you keep up with your <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> reading, you <em>already <\/em>know why.) Otherwise, the general public should simply know this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bob Zimmerman<\/strong> of <strong>Villa Grove<\/strong> is looking for a cameraperson with digital\/DSLR gear to help him shoot footage for his current projects, including a <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> rock music documentary. Please contact him at <strong>zimvg [at] mchsi [dot] com<\/strong> for additional information;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Johnny Robinson<\/strong> announced yesterday that the next <a title=\"Champaign Movie Makers @ Yahoo! Groups\" href=\"http:\/\/movies.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/champaignmoviemakers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Champaign Movie Makers<\/strong><\/a> meeting will be taking place one week later than usual on <strong>Tuesday, May 24<\/strong>, but at the usual time and place, <strong>7 p.m.<\/strong> at <strong>Class Act Interactive, 114 S. Neil St.<\/strong> in downtown Champaign;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mike Boedicker<\/strong> of <strong>REVOLTING <\/strong>fame has launched a new movie viewing series at the <strong>Danville Public Library<\/strong> where he is the head of their audiovisual department. Unfortunately, we\u2019re late in listing the first title, <strong>THE LAST PICTURE SHOW<\/strong>, which played this past Monday, May 9, but we\u2019ve added the remaining schedule of \u201c<a title=\"&quot;The New Classics&quot; lit-to-film series :: Danville Public Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.danville.lib.il.us\/newclassics.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The New Classics: Great Books to Great Films from the Past 50 Years<\/strong><\/a>\u201d below in our calendar. All films begin at <strong>6:30 p.m.<\/strong> and the program continues with <strong>FIELD OF DREAMS<\/strong> on <strong>Monday, June 13<\/strong>, and <strong>THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK<\/strong> on <strong>Monday, July 11<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally, we offer congratulations to all the <strong>University of Illinois<\/strong> students graduating this weekend! We wish you all well in the real world. We\u2019ll also raise a toast to everyone else finishing off their 2010-11 course work by Sunday; have a great break and we\u2019ll be waiting for you in the fall! The most titanic secret for those studious types who will be \u201ctrapped\u201d in town between now and August is that many of the core undergraduate and graduate student filmmakers will also be living <em>la vida Chambana<\/em> this summer which can <em>only <\/em>mean one thing \u2013 there <em>will <\/em>be filmmaking. Have your milkshakes at the ready and keep your peepers trained right here for the scoops!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c<em>It\u2019s a strange world and people make careers out of strange things. That\u2019s all my advice for now. Mostly stolen from other people.<\/em>\u201d ~ Former C-U movie maker and forever good guy <strong>Jason Butler<\/strong>, delivering the best advice your humble editor could hope to hear this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>MEDIA LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once again, the ghost of <strong>Slim Pickens<\/strong> limits what we have in store for you, dearest readers, yet you will <em>not <\/em>go empty-handed into that good night. For instance, if you simply have to relive last month\u2019s <strong>Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival<\/strong>, you probably cannot throw a virtual stone on the Internet without hitting a recap although <a title=\"13th annual Ebertfest review, part 1 :: Facets Features\" href=\"http:\/\/facetsfeatures.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/13th-annual-ebertfest-part-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">we\u2019d suggest this passionate variation written by <strong>Sharon Gissy<\/strong><\/a> for <strong>Facets Multimedia<\/strong> in <strong>Chicago<\/strong>. Delivering another long-distance dedication to culture in the C-U, <a title=\"Documentary captures StarCraft II players :: Rock, Paper, Shotgun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2011\/05\/03\/makin-star-movies-star-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\">the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/strong><\/span><\/a> gaming Weblog reports on a short documentary by <strong>Columbia College Chicago<\/strong> student <strong>Luke Pierson<\/strong> about competitive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty<\/strong><\/span> players at UIUC; thanks to our man <strong>Chris Lukeman<\/strong> for the tip! Those interested in corporate media application <a title=\"Nuvixa CEO Sanjay Patel profiled :: Central Illinois Business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralillinoisbusiness.com\/index.cfm?archid=680&amp;columnName=INNOVATION%20%3E%20THE%20OUTER%20LIMITS&amp;arch=1\" target=\"_blank\">might read the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Central Illinois Business<\/strong><\/span> <strong>magazine <\/strong>profile<\/a> on local firm <strong>Nuvixa<\/strong>\u2019s CEO <strong>Sanjay Patel<\/strong> and the upgrade to their <strong>StagePresence<\/strong> virtual conferencing software. Finally, the gang at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>buzz<\/strong><\/span><strong> magazine<\/strong> have done a great job loading up on the local film stories this spring and simply haven\u2019t stopped; <a title=\"Dark Maze Studios presses start on PRESS START again and again :: buzz magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/the217.com\/articles\/view\/game_on_press_start_and_press_start_2_continue\" target=\"_blank\">here is <strong>Tracy Woodley<\/strong>\u2019s piece from last week\u2019s issue<\/a> about <strong>Dark Maze Studios<\/strong> and <strong>PRESS START 2 CONTINUE<\/strong>, while <a title=\"&quot;Cinema to the MACS&quot; student fest reviewed :: buzz magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the217.com\/articles\/view\/cinema_to_the_macs_film_festival\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stephanie Ruiz<\/strong>\u2019s overview<\/a> of the \u201c<strong>Cinema to the MACS<\/strong> (Media and Cinema Studies)\u201d student film festival and <a title=\"UIUC senior Ryan Marzolph talks FALLING UP :: buzz magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the217.com\/articles\/view\/how_to_be_an_independent_filmmaker\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nick Martin<\/strong>\u2019s discussion<\/a> with about-to-graduate <strong>Ryan Marzolph<\/strong> about his speculative science fiction short, <strong>FALLING UP<\/strong>, debut today. Rock on, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">buzz<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PLAYING THIS WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ The Art Theater, Champaign, IL: <strong>JANE EYRE<\/strong> (5\/13 on), <strong>SUPER <\/strong>(5\/13-5\/15, 5\/19), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Girl of the Golden West<\/strong><\/span> (5\/14-5\/15, 12 p.m., opera)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ Centrum Caf\u00e9, Springfield, IL: <strong>Central Illinois Film Commission meeting<\/strong> (5\/19, 7 p.m., free)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL: <strong>THOR, SOMETHING BORROWED, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS<\/strong> (5\/13 on)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL: <strong>ANOTHER YEAR<\/strong> (5\/12-5\/15)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ The Lorraine Theatre, Hoopeston, IL: <strong>THOR, FAST FIVE<\/strong> (5\/13 on)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ Gemini Cinemas, Villa Grove, IL: <strong>THOR, SOUL SURFER<\/strong> (5\/13 on)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ The Onarga Theatre, Onarga, IL: <strong>THOR <\/strong>(5\/13-5\/15, 5\/18)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ Princess Theatre, LeRoy, IL: <strong>SOURCE CODE<\/strong> (5\/13-5\/15)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ Harvest Moon Drive-In, Gibson City, IL: <strong>THOR, FAST FIVE<\/strong> (5\/13-5\/15)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ Route 66 Drive-In, Springfield, IL: <strong>HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL, SCREAM 4, RIO, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS<\/strong> (5\/13-5\/14)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ That\u2019s Rentertainment, Champaign, IL: <strong>THE ILLUSIONIST, BLUE VALENTINE, CROPSEY, I SAW THE DEVIL, NO STRINGS ATTACHED, COUGARS, INC., SOMETHING WILD<\/strong> (Criterion), more! (5\/10 on)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ Centerbrook Drive-In, Martinsville, IN: <strong>THOR, INSIDIOUS<\/strong> (5\/13-5\/15)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">@ Hi-Pointe Theatre, etc., St. Louis, MO: \u201c<strong>Vincentennial<\/strong>\u201d (<strong>Vincent Price<\/strong> celebration, 5\/19-5\/28)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Locally produced movies and events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). <\/em><strong>Go see \u2018em!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>COMING SOON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>UPDATE!<\/strong> 5\/24: <strong>Champaign Movie Makers meeting<br \/>\n@ Class Act Interactive, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5\/27: <strong>THE UNINVITED (1944) w\/Troy Taylor<br \/>\n@ The Avon Theater, Decatur, IL, 10 p.m., free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6\/2-6\/9: Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6\/23-6\/26: Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7\/19-7\/24: Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival, Palatine, IL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">9\/16-9\/18: <strong>Route 66 International Film Festival<br \/>\n@ Hoogland Center for the Arts, Springfield, IL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/6-10\/20: Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/28-10\/30: <strong>Freeky Creek Short Film Festival<br \/>\n@ Sleepy Creek Vineyards, Fairmount, IL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">11\/10-11\/12: <strong>Embarras Valley Film Festival<br \/>\n@ EIU campus\/Will Rogers Theater\/etc., Charleston, IL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">11\/10-11\/20: St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>COMMUNITY FILM SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NEW! The New Classics: Great Books to Great Films from the Past 50 Years<br \/>\n@ Danville Public Library, Danville, IL, 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n6\/13: FIELD OF DREAMS; 7\/11: THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK; 8\/8: INTO THE WILD; 9\/12: TRUE GRIT (2010); 10\/10: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS; 11\/14: ORDINARY PEOPLE; 12\/12: FAIL SAFE (1964); 1\/9\/12: NEVER CRY WOLF; 2\/13\/12: AWAKENINGS; 3\/12\/12: ADAPTATION; 4\/9\/12: UP IN THE AIR<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The News-Gazette Film Series 2011<br \/>\n@ The Virginia Theater, Champaign, IL, 1 &amp; 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n5\/14: REAR WINDOW; 6\/4: MOULIN ROUGE!; 7\/23: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY\u2019S; 8\/6: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE; 9\/10: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT; 10\/8: THE EXORCIST; 11\/5: THE GODFATHER; 12\/3: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>WILL-TV\/Independent Lens \u201cCommunity Cinema\u201d series<br \/>\n@ The Art Theater, Champaign, IL, Time TBA<\/strong><br \/>\n6\/11: TWO SPIRITS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Global Lens 2011: International Films<br \/>\n@ Latzer Hall, University YMCA, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 5:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n5\/19: THE INVISIBLE EYE, Argentina; 6\/16: THE LIGHT THIEF, Kyrgyzstan; 7\/21: SOUL OF SAND, India; 8\/18: STREET DAYS, Georgia; 9\/15: THE TENANTS, Brazil; 10\/20: A USEFUL LIFE, Uruguay; 11\/17: WHITE MEADOWS, Iran<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That\u2019s it for the \u201cbusiness of our scene\u201d this week!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>If you have relevant news, opportunities, dates, or promotions that you would like included in <\/em><strong>CUBiz<\/strong><em>, please forward the who, what, where, when, and how much to <\/em><strong>cuconfidential [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Compiled by Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>We welcome your virtual presence in the Confidential scheme!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">286 awesome (but way too few) peeps dig <a title=\"C-U Confidential @ Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cuconfidential\" target=\"_blank\">our <strong>Facebook <\/strong>page<\/a>, while 15 astounding (yet way <em>way <\/em>way too few) comrades keep a watchful eye on <a title=\"C-U Confidential Revue @ YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cuconfidential\" target=\"_blank\">our <strong>YouTube<\/strong> channel<\/a>, the <strong>C-U Confidential Revue<\/strong>! We\u2019d place our bets in a heartbeat that <em>many more<\/em> would enjoy our social\/video outreach if they knew about us! Have <em>you <\/em>joined us on-line? Will you be ambassadors for our indie film cause and send your recruits in our direction? The more attention we receive, the better we can serve the interests of local artists and the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"C-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne: 05.06.2011 :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3397\" target=\"_self\">Prior \u201cCUBiz\u201d<\/a> | <a title=\"C-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne: 05.19.2011 :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3423\" target=\"_self\">Next \u201cCUBiz\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cC-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne\u201d no.42 \u00a9 2011 Jason Pankoke\/C-U Blogfidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of C-U Blogfidential\u2019s all-purpose column, \u201cC-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne,\u201d we confirm the next Champaign Movie Makers meeting, spill on a local documentary opp, encourage the watching of films-from-books, and deposit the skinny on the movies now playing\/renting near you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,406,68,217,53,11,12,15,13,18],"tags":[702,1704,520,667,97,563,225],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-c-u-biz-en-scene","category-champaign-movie-makers","category-column-du-c-u","category-educationclasses","category-job-opportunities","category-local-meetings","category-media-coverage","category-public-events","category-student-film","tag-bob-zimmerman","tag-champaign-movie-makers","tag-danville-public-library","tag-falling-up","tag-mike-boedicker","tag-press-start-2-continue","tag-university-of-illinois-uc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","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=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}