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Ebertfest 2014: Day 2
I woke up today after less than 4 hours of sleep, which would be par for the course if you choose to cover all of Ebertfest on a daily basis. Yesterday ended the same way it started, as Carol Iwata, Roger and Chaz Ebert's personal assistant for God knows how l...
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Ebertfest 2014: Day 1
The day began with me setting out to rent a car. Usually the festival assigns each guest a host to help them get around for screenings, but this time I wanted to explore Champaign-Urbana with as much freedom as possible; to get to know Roger Ebert's hometown m...
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Dispatch From Day Three at Ebertfest: Two Filmmakers, Two Tales of Addiction, and Two Invaluable Souls
Yesterday at Ebertfest was a day of twos.
It began with young filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen whose short film To Music, about a trio of musicians who work out their issues through art, screened before Paul Cox’s Vincent on Thursday. They were g...
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