{"id":57,"date":"2006-05-14T19:13:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:02:17","slug":"mummy-show-antigone-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"MUMMY, SHOW, ANTIGONE on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

April showers may be bringing May flowers (and unusually cool temperatures) to the area, but something in the water has been causing a mini-flood of DVDs to sprout from the CPUs of area filmmakers.<\/p>\n

Now available for rental and purchase at That’s Rentertainment, 516 E. John St., Champaign, IL<\/strong>, is THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY<\/strong> (see item: 4\/15\/06<\/a>). The DVD-5 release of this Illini Film & Video<\/strong> production sports packaging and a menu design recalling the glory days of fly-by-night VHS labels from the Eighties, keeping in tune with the splatterific spoofery of MUMMY<\/strong> itself. The 85-minute epic is accompanied by a Blooper Reel and Deleted Scenes, and yes, Virginia, there\u00a0is indeed\u00a0a fucking triangle to be found if you watch closely…<\/p>\n

\"THE<\/p>\n

Also available for purchase, if not yet local rental, is the Mike Boedicker<\/strong> film SHOW<\/strong> (see item: 3\/12\/06<\/a>) about a voyeuristic introvert named Marcus (played by John Dowers<\/strong>) who assimilates himself into the doings of a local theatre company and their star player, Stephanie (Leila Ramagopal<\/strong>),\u00a0as a videographer-for-hire. You can visit Boedicker’s Web site<\/a> for ordering information on the DVD-R release of this 79-minute drama, as well as additional details about SHOW<\/strong>, originally produced in Danville, IL, in 2003.<\/p>\n

\"Claire<\/p>\n

Finally, joining MUMMY<\/strong> in the “American Independent Film” racks of That’s Rentertainment this week is a DVD-R rental of ANTIGONE<\/strong>, produced by Creative Dramatics Workshop<\/strong> of Sidney, IL<\/strong>, and directed by Robert Picklesimer<\/strong>. The classic Sophocles tragedy, depicting the ills that befall the sons and daughters of Oedipus, launched the Workshop 10 years ago; Picklesimer revisits the tale in this 101-minute adaptation with himself playing King Creon and current\u00a0Parkland College<\/strong> student Claire Cowley<\/strong> tackling the title role. Although not available commercially, more information about ANTIGONE<\/strong> can be found at the Web site<\/a> of the Workshop.<\/p>\n

Please keep in mind that DVD-R discs may skip or freeze in certain brands of DVD players.<\/p>\n

– Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

ANTIGONE photo
\ncourtesy of Robert Picklesimer\/CDW<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illini Film & Video presses THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY into service via DVD, while SHOW and ANTIGONE arrive on DVD-R to soothe that burning local-film itch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-film","category-videos-du-c-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}