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Actor says 'Canvas' first step to taking apart social stigma of mental illness
Saturday, April 26, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – Joey Pantoliano said Thursday night at the Virginia Theatre that he always wanted to be an actor, someone whom people would recognize on the streets.
It happened beyond his expectations. He has appeared in more than 100 films, among them "The Matrix," "Memento" and Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun," and has won numerous awards, including an Emmy in 2003 for his supporting role in the HBO hit series, "The Sopranos."
Farmer's doc reaps event's first standing ovation
Saturday, April 26, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – The first standing ovation of the 10th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival greeted the close-to-home documentary, "The Real Dirt on Farmer John," on Friday evening.
The seventh film of the 13-film festival is about Farmer John Peterson, a quirky farmer who turned his longtime family farm in northern Illinois into a hippie/artist commune before losing it.
Couple's love of film led them to romance
Friday, April 25, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – In movie parlance, Chuck and Eileen Kuenneth of Chicago "met cute" in one of Roger Ebert's continuing-education film classes at the University of Chicago back in the 1980s.
Now they're married and in their third year of attending Roger Ebert's Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign.
British actors feel right at home at C-U fest
Friday, April 25, 2008
British actor Timothy Spall finds the Illini Union intriguing. That's where he and his wife, Shane, and other guests of Roger Ebert's Film Festival are staying.
"My wife and I, we both feel about 195 because the average age around there is 19," he said. "We feel like we're from 'Jurassic Park.'"
Writer-director dedicates screening of 'Delirious' to absent film critic
Friday, April 25, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – The "disastrous distribution history" of his film "Delirious," which opened the second day of Roger Ebert's Film Festival on Thursday, left writer-director Tom DiCillo "dumbfounded, lost and bewildered."
So much so that he e-mailed five questions to Ebert, whom he had never met. The critic replied to every single one.
To see, or not to see
Thursday, April 24, 2008
URBANA – Relaxing on the patio outside the University of Illinois president's home Wednesday evening, British actor Timothy Spall was pondering whether he would sit through the four-hour movie "Hamlet."
The versatile Spall plays Rosencrantz in the film, which opened the 10th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre shortly after the reception at the UI president's home.
"We're both seriously jet-lagged," Spall said of himself and his wife, Shane. "It's a toss-up."
Ebertfest's star will be absent tonight
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – The 10th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival opens this evening at the Virginia Theatre without the main man.
In his blog today, the Chicago Sun-Times movie reviewer and Urbana native wrote: "After consulting with my doctors, I have decided it may not be prudent to try to make the journey today with a fractured hip."
'Canvas,' a film on coping with mental illness, to be at Ebertfest
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
'Canvas,' a film on coping with mental illness, to be at Ebertfest
CHAMPAIGN – You might think that a person with schizophrenia would not excel in the parenting department. That is not the case for many, including director Joseph Greco's mother.
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