Beginning today, September weekends will be filled with special events in downstate Illinois, promising to provide as colorful a palette inside darkened theaters as will\u00a0the turning\u00a0leaves of the great outdoors.<\/p>\n
First up is the fifth annual edition of the Route 66 Film Festival<\/strong>, which will take place at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. Sixth St., Springfield, IL<\/strong>, on Saturday, September 16, 1 p.m.<\/strong>,\u00a0and Sunday, September 17, 12 p.m.<\/strong> Conceived as a showcase of independent work featuring literal and figurative journeys as prominent themes, this event runs parallel with the\u00a0state capital’s\u00a0annual celebration of the legendary Mother Road. Admission for individual programs will be $5 while a festival pass runs $25; complete listings of film capsules and filmmaker bios can be found right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Next weekend, Eastern Illinois University<\/strong> in Charleston, IL<\/strong>,\u00a0steps up with its second annual Embarras Valley Film Festival<\/strong>, which presents the film work of an EIU alumnus. Unlike last year’s honoree, the B-film character actor William Phipps<\/strong> (INVADERS FROM MARS ’53<\/strong>), this year’s marquee name should be relatively familiar with filmgoers from his acting credits\u00a0and\u00a0voice-over work\u00a0– Burl Ives<\/strong> (1909-1995). Running from September 20<\/strong> to September 23<\/strong>, Embarras Valley will offer numerous presentations regarding Ives’ lengthy, multi-faceted career as well as screenings of four classics: DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS<\/strong> (1958, 9\/20), EAST OF EDEN<\/strong> (1955, 9\/21), THE BIG COUNTRY<\/strong> (1959, 9\/23), and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF<\/strong> (1958, 9\/23). Skim this blog<\/a> for times and locations of all related events.<\/p>\n One week later, Boardman’s Art Theatre<\/strong> in downtown Champaign, IL<\/strong>,\u00a0welcomes the fourth annual Asian Film Festival<\/strong>, organized by the Asian Educational Media Service<\/strong> (AEMS)\u00a0of the\u00a0Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong>. Attempting to bridge cultural gaps through cinema, AEMS chooses its selections from\u00a0the contemporary output of a\u00a0specific country or region – such as Japan and Hong Kong in prior festivals\u00a0– with this year devoted to South Korea. On Friday, September 29<\/strong>, at 7 p.m.<\/strong>, director Yoon Jong-Bin<\/strong> will introduce and discuss his film, THE UNFORGIVEN<\/strong> (2005), while four additional features play on Saturday, September 30<\/strong>, beginning at 2 p.m.<\/strong>: EMPRESS CHUNG<\/strong> (2005), PLEASE TEACH ME ENGLISH<\/strong> (2003), SAD MOVIE<\/strong> (2005), and SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE<\/strong> (2005), Park Chan-wook<\/strong>‘s follow-up to OLDBOY<\/strong>. Further information on the movies and\u00a0AEMS itself\u00a0is archived here<\/a>; festival admission will be free to the public.<\/p>\n – Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Film festivals rule downstate Illinois this month as the Route 66 Film Festival (September 16-17, 2006, Springfield), Embarras Valley Film Festival (September 20-23, 2006, Charleston), and Asian Film Festival: South Korea (September 29-30, 2006, Champaign) vie for the attention of cinephiles everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-public-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}