“The Hangover,” “Rumours” Announced For Ebertfest 2025

Todd Phillips‘s record-breaking drama “The Hangover” and Guy Maddin‘s 2024 satire “Rumours” joined “The Searchers” arsenic titles confirmed for this year’s Ebertfest. See the afloat merchandise below:

Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, besides known arsenic Ebertfest, announced contiguous that Todd Phillips’ THE HANGOVER starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, and Justin Bartha will adjacent the 26th yearly festival connected Saturday, April 26, 2025, astatine the historical Virginia Theatre successful Champaign, IL. There volition beryllium a Q&A with producer Scott Budnick immediately pursuing the screening. 

In his 3.5/4 stars review, Roger Ebert called THE HANGOVER “a comic movie, level out, each the mode through…a movie that deserves each missive of its R rating…. What happens successful Vegas stays successful Vegas, particularly aft you propulsion up.” 

In THE HANGOVER, Doug (Justin Bartha) and 3 friends (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) thrust to Las Vegas for a chaotic and memorable stag party. In fact, erstwhile the 3 groomsmen aftermath up the adjacent morning, they can’t retrieve a thing; nor tin they find Doug. With small clip to spare, the 3 hazy pals effort to retrace their steps and find Doug truthful they tin get him backmost to Los Angeles successful clip to locomotion down the aisle.

“In 2009, a cult improvement was calved erstwhile Scott Budnick, Todd Philips and the full squad progressive with THE HANGOVER unveiled this offbeat drama classic,” said Chaz Ebert, Co-Founder and Producer of Ebertfest. “This movie made maine recognize the astonishing flexibility of each the actors, but particularly Bradley Cooper. Shortly aft the movie debuted successful America, I ran into Bradley successful Cannes and was amazed to spot him speaking cleanable French portion being interviewed connected French television, a acold outcry from his ‘Hangover’ character. Both Roger and I enjoyed the outrageousness of the movie, and I look guardant to proceeding the laughter and excitement from the packed location successful the Virginia Theatre!”  

The festival is pleased to stock that Guy Maddin’s RUMOURS, released successful 2024 and starring Cate Blanchett, will officially surface arsenic portion of this year’s lineup. Director Guy Maddin will beryllium returning to the festival pursuing a well-received screening of MY WINNIPEG astatine the 2009 event. 

In his reappraisal of RUMOURS, RogerEbert.com’s Brian Tallerico says, “[Maddin is] A filmmaker that Roger admired truthful overmuch has erstwhile again burst his imaginativeness onto the large surface successful what volition surely beryllium 1 of the highest-profile projects of his vocation (Cate Blanchett tin bash that)…. After all, Roger’s connection is inactive true: Few filmmakers evidently emotion movies arsenic overmuch arsenic Guy Maddin.” 

RUMOURS follows leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies who stitchery for the yearly G7 Summit to draught a provisional connection regarding an unnamed planetary crisis. They soon go spectacles of incompetence, contending with progressively surreal obstacles arsenic nighttime falls successful the misty woods and they recognize they are abruptly alone.

“The ‘Rumours’ are true…Guy Maddin’s enactment of creation is officially slated for our unthinkable Ebertfest audience!” said Festival Director Nate Kohn. “As a festival that not lone celebrates the precise champion successful film, but besides the originative geniuses that masterfully archer these stories, it is lone fitting that Guy Maddin beryllium honored astatine this year’s event.”  

As antecedently announced, the 2025 Roger Ebert’s Film Festival volition unfastened with a caller 70mm people of the Western classical THE SEARCHERS (1956), starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood connected Wednesday, April 23.

Additional updates to the festival programme volition beryllium announced successful the coming weeks.

Ebertfest passes are presently disposable to purchase online or by calling the Virginia Theatre container bureau astatine 217-356-9063. Individual festival passes to spot each films outgo $200, which includes reserved seating.

Roger Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize-winning movie professional for the Chicago Sun-Times, University of Illinois journalism alumnus, and Urbana native.

Chaz Ebert is besides the writer of the indie bestseller It’s Time to Give A FECK: Elevating Humanity done Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness.

Ebertfest is hosted by Chaz Ebert and Nate Kohn, the festival manager since the precise beginning, successful collaboration with the College of Media astatine the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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