{"id":9871,"date":"2016-03-28T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2016-03-28T00:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T06:49:31","slug":"ebertfest-2016-films-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9871","title":{"rendered":"Ebertfest 2016 films revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On <strong>Wednesday, March 23<\/strong>, the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"College of Media :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\" href=\"http:\/\/media.illinois.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">College of Media<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at the <strong>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong> announced the movies to be showcased at the eighteenth annual edition of <strong>Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival<\/strong> taking place on <strong>April 13-17, 2016<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tuesday, April 12<\/span><br \/>\n<em>7:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!<\/strong> (2016, 116 min., D: Richard Linklater)<br \/>\nFree pre-festival screening hosted by executive producer <strong>Stephen Feder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wednesday, April 13<\/span><br \/>\n<em>7:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>CRIMSON PEAK<\/strong> (2015, 119 min, D: Guillermo del Toro)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thursday, April 14<\/span><br \/>\n<em>1:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>GRANDMA<\/strong> (2015, 79 min., D: Paul Weitz)<br \/>\n<em>4:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>NORTHFORK<\/strong> (2003, 103 min., D: Michael Polish)<br \/>\n<em>8:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>THE THIRD MAN<\/strong> (1949, 104 min., D: Carol Reed)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Friday, April 15<\/span><br \/>\n<em>1:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>DISTURBING THE PEACE<\/strong> (2016, 86 min., D: Stephen Apkon &amp; Andrew Young)<br \/>\n<em>4:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>L\u2019INHUMANIE<\/strong> (1924, 122 min., D: Marcel L\u2019Herbier)<br \/>\nAccompanied by the <strong>Alloy Orchestra<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>8:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>EVE\u2019S BAYOU<\/strong> (1997, 109 min., D: Kasi Lemmons)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saturday April 16<\/span><br \/>\n<em>11:00 a.m.<\/em> <strong>FORCE OF DESTINY<\/strong> (2015, 92 min., D: Paul Cox)<br \/>\n<em>2:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>RADICAL GRACE<\/strong> (2015, 86 min., D: Rebecca Parrish)<br \/>\n<em>4:30 p.m.<\/em> <strong>LOVE &amp; MERCY<\/strong> (2015, 122 min., D: Bill Pohlad)<br \/>\n<em>9:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>BLOW OUT<\/strong> (1981, 108 min., D: Brian DePalma)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sunday, April 17<\/span><br \/>\n<em>12:00 p.m.<\/em> <strong>BODY AND SOUL<\/strong> (1925, 79 min., D: Oscar Micheaux)<br \/>\nAccompanied by <strong>Renee Baker<\/strong> and <strong>Chicago Orchestra Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Key festival guests this year include <strong>Guillermo del Toro<\/strong> (CRIMSON PEAK), <strong>Paul Weitz<\/strong> (GRANDMA), <strong>Michael Polish<\/strong> (NORTHFORK), <strong>Kasi Lemmons<\/strong> (EVE\u2019S BAYOU), <strong>Paul Cox<\/strong> (FORCE OF DESTINY), <strong>Rebecca Parrish<\/strong> (RADICAL GRACE), and <strong>Nancy Allen<\/strong> (BLOW OUT).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival will take place at the <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"The Virginia Theatre :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thevirginia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Theatre<\/a><\/span>, 203 W. Park Ave., Champaign, IL<\/strong>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Smile Politely<\/strong><\/span> has posted <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Ebertfest announces final slate of films and guests for 2016 :: Smile Politely\" href=\"http:\/\/smilepolitely.com\/splog\/ebertfest_announces_final_slate_of_films_and_guests_for_2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">the official \u201csecond wave\u201d press release of the schedule<\/a><\/span>. The <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Roger Ebert's Film Festival :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebertfest.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c<strong>Ebertfest<\/strong>\u201d Web site<\/a><\/span> also features individual reviews and details of signings and panel discussions. Tickets for individual shows will go on sale <strong>Friday, April 1, 2016<\/strong>, while a small number of festival passes are still available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"Roger Ebert's Film Festival 2016 poster (\u00a9 REFF)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_ebertfest2016_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"693\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the eighteenth annual edition of Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,30],"tags":[1679,1675,554,1682,1681,1676,1680,1677,544,1049,1047,72,1230,1678,108],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-public-events","category-roger-ebert","tag-blow-out","tag-crimson-peak","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-kasi-lemmons","tag-love-mercy","tag-michael-polish","tag-nancy-allen","tag-northfork","tag-oscar-micheaux","tag-paul-cox","tag-richard-linklater","tag-roger-eberts-film-festival","tag-the-alloy-orchestra","tag-the-third-man","tag-uiuc-college-of-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}