Art Theater Closes—How Do Other Art Houses Survive?
Halloween -- Thursday October 31st -- is the last day of business for the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, which stopped showing movies last week.
Tickets On Sale, Full Lineup Announced For 2018 Ebertfest
"Interstellar", a science fiction movie presented on 70 millimeter film and "Columbus", a director’s debut that makes use of the modern architecture of an Indiana town are the final movies to be announced for the 20th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.
The Professor Who Made Movies Talk
October 5th marks the anniversary of the birth of Joseph Tykociner, a University of Illinois professor who was a pioneer in the development of sound motion pictures.
Violinist Itzhak Perlman featured in the PSO’s “Cinema Serenade” on the “Evening Concert”
Tonight's "Cinema Serenade" is a program of classical music written for the movies and music not-written-for-the-movies-but-often-found-there.
Roll Out The Red Carpet: Illinois Is Going To The Oscars
On Sunday, the red carpet will be rolled out for the Academy Awards and Illinois will have a significant presence. We’ll explore those connections beginning with Helen Estabrook, Champaign-Urbana native and the producer of Whiplash could take home as many as five Academy Awards. Finding Vivian Maier is a Chicago story written and directed by a Chicagoan. It could win best documentary….and find itself in copyright trouble. We’ll cover all that and more but first in this WILL special: Illinois at the Oscars