Michael Moore does good: Traverse City Film Festival July 27-31!
07-26-05, 08:42 PM
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Michael Moore does good: Traverse City Film Festival July 27-31!
Michael Moore has done a wonderful thing for northern Michigan, organizing a film festival to be hosted in Traverse City. It's the first of hopefully many, and hopes to rival Sundance, Telluride, etc. in the coming years. The headlining film is Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, Starring Bill Murray and about a dozen well known actresses (S. Stone, J. Delpy, J. Lange....etc etc)
It's really quite a cool thing and just thought i'd post this for any other michiganders who might make it up...here is the complete film line-up, including a handful of other U.S. debuts of domestic and foreign releases. I'm going to try and see a few...unfortunately Broken Flowers is already sold out
But, they are already working on next year, and among other attendees, Werner Herzog will be here. I can't express how great this is for our smallish town. The best part is they have managed to renovate and get in operation the State Theater downtown, which has remained dormant for around 15 years....I saw Star Wars there as a kid when it was the only two screens in the city. It will be wonderful to walk back through those doors. 
Here is the line-up...which I think is pretty impressive considering...
More info is here: http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/
Mad Hot Ballroom
Best Film, Chicago Film Festival. It's the most acclaimed documentary of the year -- and it will send you out on Front St. dancing a tango with a rose in your teeth! Inner-city kids from New York take up ballroom dancing and enter the big city-wide competition against children of all backgrounds. You will root and cheer, laugh and cry, in this uplifting, remarkable opening night movie for our first Traverse City Film Festival. Director and stars will be in attendance!
The Ax
France
Oscar-winning director Costa Gavras (Z, Missing) gives us this brilliant, dark satire about corporate downsizing, based on the best-selling novel by Donald Westlake. Bruno has been laid-off for two years and still has not found a job. When the one job he is qualified for finally opens up, he decides to eliminate the competition, one by one. A brutally funny film from one of the world's best directors, presented here in Traverse City before its American release.
Czech Dream
Czech Rep.
The film that is all the rage this year in Europe, Czech Dream is a hilarious, subversive documentary about two guys who decide to see just how desperate their fellow countrymen are to embrace capitalism. They announce the opening of the “Czech Dream Hypermarket.” Find out what happens when 4,000 compulsive Czech consumers are lured to an empty field.
Me and You and Everyone We Know
USA - UK
A prize winner from this year's Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, this remarkable first film from director/actress Miranda July feels a bit like Todd Solondz’s Happiness and Palindromes with its offbeat look at love, acceptance and the weird people who cross your path. One of the finest American independent films of the year.
Land of Plenty
USA - Germany
Acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas) has created one of the most moving films of the year. Paul (John Diehl) is a one-man homeland security force, driving around L.A. looking for terrorists. His niece, Lana (Michelle Williams of Dawson's Creek), tries to bring him the peace he is looking for. A powerful film of redemption in post-9/11 America.
Mondovino
International / Doc.
Only the third documentary in 50 years to be made an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, Mondovino is a brash, funny and damning journey through the world of wine. It's the small vineyards vs. the corporate wineries who want all the wine in the world to taste the same. This is the kind of bold filmmaking we rarely see, and though you may know little about wine, you will know much about what our world is turning into by the end of this movie.
Home of the Brave
USA / Doc.
The year was 1965 and Viola Luizzo, a white housewife and mother of five from Detroit, decided she could not sit idly by while black Americans were denied the right to vote. So she went down to Selma, Alabama, to join with Martin Luther King, Jr. – and, for doing that, she was brutally murdered by the Klan. A stunning documentary about an average American who became one of the greatest heroes this state has produced.
My Summer of Love
UK / Drama
Winner of the Best New British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and already a hit in New York and L.A., My Summer of Love tells the story of a working class girl in Yorkshire who becomes friends with a rich girl who's been suspended from school and sent to the countryside for the summer. The two become fast friends and fall in love. This does not sit well with the Yorkshire girl's overly-protective “born-again” brother.
Grizzly Man
USA / Doc.
Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers living amongst the grizzly bears of Alaska. He made hundreds of hours of tapes doing things that no human should attempt. Then one day the bears ate him. The great German director, Werner Herzog, took Treadwell's tapes, added his own narration, and created what may be the most riveting, crazy, mind-blowing film of the year. You won't stop talking about it for weeks. Presented here in Traverse City through the generosity of Werner Herzog before its nationwide release.
Downfall
Germany - Italy
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film / 2005 Academy Awards. An extraordinary film about the final days in Hitler’s Bunker. Bruno Ganz is riveting as Adolf Hitler in this unflinching story as told by stenographer Traudi Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara). With defeat an almost certainty, this Gottërdämmerung of the Third Reich reveals its gods to be totally self-centered to the point of insanity.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
France - China / Drama
A best foreign film nominee at the Golden Globes, this lush, exotic love story from China is set during the Cultural Revolution of the early ‘70s. Two bright city boys must be “re-educated” and broken of their western ways, so they are sent to a remote mountainous village where no one can read or write. They stumble upon some hidden books and begin to read the stories of Balzac and Madame Bovary to the beautiful seamstress girl who becomes liberated by the literature.
The Woodsman
USA / Drama
One of the best -- and most overlooked -- films of 2004, Kevin Bacon turns in the performance of his career in role few actors would have the courage to take on. Walter is a pedophile who has just been released from prison. He has paid his dues and is determined to lead a normal life. There are those who loathe and hate him and those who try to befriend him. Every day is a struggle as he tries to come to grips with what he did – and the knowledge that he may do it again.
Human Resources
France / Drama
One of two films by French director Laurent Cantet in this festival, and winner of the French academy award for Best First Film. Human Resources is a contemporary tale about a working class son turned college graduate who comes home to the factory town where he grew up. Equipped with his MBA and hired in as part of management, young Frank must now execute the company's orders – which may result in the laying off of his own father who has worked in the plant for over 30 years.
Tarnation
USA / Doc.
Winner of the Los Angeles IFP/West Film Festival, Tarnation is the edgiest film in our line-up. Director Jonathan Caouette began making this film when he was 11, videotaping his harrowing up-bringing by a schizophrenic mother. Some 20 years later, he has created this brilliant film on his iMac, using his own footage, home movies, interviews and audio tapes, coupled with fast moving imagery and a score that has no rival in theaters today. This film speaks to the power of what movies can convey, yet you will never see anything like it at your local multiplex.
Italian for Beginners
Denmark-Sweden / Comedy
The San Francisco Chronicle said this film “makes the heart soar” and they couldn't be more right. It's a rare day when an adult romantic film like this comes along -- and when it does, it reminds you why you love going to the movies. Six strangers, three men and three women, sign up for an Italian class in a Denmark town. When the teacher unexpectedly quits, the adult students decide to continue the class and plan their first trip to Italy. Funny, poignant and bittersweet, this winner of the jury prize at the Berlin Festival is one movie not to be missed.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
USA / Doc.
Described by the L.A. Weekly as “fiercely intelligent, terrifying, and absurdly funny,” Enron is the largest-grossing documentary so far this year. It tells the Enron story in such a way that you can't believe what you are seeing - and yet every inch of this sordid tale is true. Compelling characters, scary villains, and a plot line that will have you laughing one minute and gasping the next. Enron finally tells it all about a company run on greed with friends in high places. The director, Alex Gibney, will appear in person at the screening.
The Edukators
Germany / Drama
Presented here in Traverse City before its American release, the best German film of the year (and official selection of the Cannes Film Festival), follows a group of twenty-somethings who have had enough of demonstrations and believe it's time to send a different kind of message. They form a clandestine gang called “The Edukators.” Their mission: break in to the homes of the rich, rearrange their furniture, and leave them a message about their greedy ways. But things go awry as sexual attraction intrudes, and a kidnapped CEO upsets their master plan.
Gunner Palace
USA / Doc.
Director Michael Tucker spent two months in Iraq living with the U.S. Army's 2/3 Field Artillery unit, a.k.a. “The Gunners.” Their barracks? Uday Hussein's pleasure palace -- complete with swimming pool and putting green. In between dangerous missions around Baghdad and dealing with a war that seems to have no end, these young troops try to maintain some semblance of their life back home. Strangers in a strange land, Gunner Palace takes you inside the war in a way you've never been.
A Good Woman
International
Looking for a great date movie? Here it is! A brand new film starring Scarlett Johansson, Helen Hunt and Tom Wilkinson, set on the Italian coast in the 1930s. Two American women on vacation find themselves intertwined in a web of love, betrayal, intrigue and reconciliation. Based on the Oscar Wilde play, “Mrs. Windermere's Fan,” A Good Woman will play here at the Traverse City Film Festival before its national release.
The Baxter
USA / Comedy
Prospective husbands come in two basic groups: the exciting, creative types whom you can't always depend on, and the “Baxters”– dependable, reliable, solid and boring. This new American comedy stars writer/director Michael Showalter as the Baxter, a man who continually loses his girlfriend or fiancé to the fun-loving ex-boyfriend who always seems to show up to sweep her away. Brilliant performances by Justin Theroux and Michelle Williams, this is that rare comedy for adults that
deserves to be seen.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
USA-Mexico
Again, one of the most overlooked films from last year (it didn't play within 200 miles of here). This brilliant film stars Sean Penn in a tour de force performance that surpasses his Oscar-winning role in Mystic River. It's a chilling drama that has little to do with Richard Nixon but everything to do with a man named Sam. His wife has left him and he realizes all his hopes and wishes may never come true. A masterful exploration of the dark side of the American Dream. With an excellent supporting cast including Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle.
Les Miserables
France / Drama
Finally, a film version of the Victor Hugo novel, and it's a masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, director Claude Lelouch takes this classic story and transports it to Nazi-occupied France. A Jewish family on the run is picked up by an illiterate ex-boxer named Fortin (played by the great French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo). Fortin searches for the strength to be the hero he never thought he could be in this rich, powerful and ageless story.
Time Out
France / Drama
A prize-winning film from the Venice Film Festival, this is our second film from French director Laurent Cantet. It tells the story of Vincent, a man who gets up every morning and goes to work. The only problem is, Vincent was laid off months ago. Too embarrassed to tell his wife and friends he no longer has a job, Vincent creates a series of lies which dig him in only deeper – with growing consequences and dangerous results.
The Talent Given Us
USA / Comedy-Drama
Made for $30,000 with a two-person crew, this hilarious, biting comedy about a dysfunctional family is already the most talked about film of the year. Roger Ebert calls it “brave” and Newsday says it's “breathtaking.” Director Andrew Wagner has cast his parents and his siblings in this story about a 70-year old couple from New York's upper west side who decide to drive to L.A. to see their loner son who's trying to make it as a filmmaker. Is it fact or fiction? Are they playing themselves? Who knows? It's real, it's painful, it's a riot. The director will attend the screening.
11 de Septembre
International / Compilation
Eleven of the world's top directors were commissioned to make an 11-minute film, fiction or nonfiction, with a storyline that reflected their own vision of the world after the tragedy of September 11, 2001. The shorts were then compiled into this one movie and the results are profound, moving, controversial, and sublime. Simply put, there is nothing like this anywhere, and we have these fine directors – Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Sean Penn and others – to thank for this most compelling and urgent piece of art and commentary.
Broken Flowers
USA / Comedy
The Grand Prize Winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Broken Flowers stars Bill Murray as a man who receives an anonymous note from one of his ex-girlfriends telling him he has a son. He thus embarks on a journey to find him. This intelligent comedy also stars Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton. Broken Flowers is being made available by its director, Jim Jarmusch, before its American release, to the Traverse City Film Festival as our closing night film.
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It's really quite a cool thing and just thought i'd post this for any other michiganders who might make it up...here is the complete film line-up, including a handful of other U.S. debuts of domestic and foreign releases. I'm going to try and see a few...unfortunately Broken Flowers is already sold out
But, they are already working on next year, and among other attendees, Werner Herzog will be here. I can't express how great this is for our smallish town. The best part is they have managed to renovate and get in operation the State Theater downtown, which has remained dormant for around 15 years....I saw Star Wars there as a kid when it was the only two screens in the city. It will be wonderful to walk back through those doors. Here is the line-up...which I think is pretty impressive considering...
More info is here: http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/
Mad Hot Ballroom
Best Film, Chicago Film Festival. It's the most acclaimed documentary of the year -- and it will send you out on Front St. dancing a tango with a rose in your teeth! Inner-city kids from New York take up ballroom dancing and enter the big city-wide competition against children of all backgrounds. You will root and cheer, laugh and cry, in this uplifting, remarkable opening night movie for our first Traverse City Film Festival. Director and stars will be in attendance!
The Ax
France
Oscar-winning director Costa Gavras (Z, Missing) gives us this brilliant, dark satire about corporate downsizing, based on the best-selling novel by Donald Westlake. Bruno has been laid-off for two years and still has not found a job. When the one job he is qualified for finally opens up, he decides to eliminate the competition, one by one. A brutally funny film from one of the world's best directors, presented here in Traverse City before its American release.
Czech Dream
Czech Rep.
The film that is all the rage this year in Europe, Czech Dream is a hilarious, subversive documentary about two guys who decide to see just how desperate their fellow countrymen are to embrace capitalism. They announce the opening of the “Czech Dream Hypermarket.” Find out what happens when 4,000 compulsive Czech consumers are lured to an empty field.
Me and You and Everyone We Know
USA - UK
A prize winner from this year's Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, this remarkable first film from director/actress Miranda July feels a bit like Todd Solondz’s Happiness and Palindromes with its offbeat look at love, acceptance and the weird people who cross your path. One of the finest American independent films of the year.
Land of Plenty
USA - Germany
Acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas) has created one of the most moving films of the year. Paul (John Diehl) is a one-man homeland security force, driving around L.A. looking for terrorists. His niece, Lana (Michelle Williams of Dawson's Creek), tries to bring him the peace he is looking for. A powerful film of redemption in post-9/11 America.
Mondovino
International / Doc.
Only the third documentary in 50 years to be made an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, Mondovino is a brash, funny and damning journey through the world of wine. It's the small vineyards vs. the corporate wineries who want all the wine in the world to taste the same. This is the kind of bold filmmaking we rarely see, and though you may know little about wine, you will know much about what our world is turning into by the end of this movie.
Home of the Brave
USA / Doc.
The year was 1965 and Viola Luizzo, a white housewife and mother of five from Detroit, decided she could not sit idly by while black Americans were denied the right to vote. So she went down to Selma, Alabama, to join with Martin Luther King, Jr. – and, for doing that, she was brutally murdered by the Klan. A stunning documentary about an average American who became one of the greatest heroes this state has produced.
My Summer of Love
UK / Drama
Winner of the Best New British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and already a hit in New York and L.A., My Summer of Love tells the story of a working class girl in Yorkshire who becomes friends with a rich girl who's been suspended from school and sent to the countryside for the summer. The two become fast friends and fall in love. This does not sit well with the Yorkshire girl's overly-protective “born-again” brother.
Grizzly Man
USA / Doc.
Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers living amongst the grizzly bears of Alaska. He made hundreds of hours of tapes doing things that no human should attempt. Then one day the bears ate him. The great German director, Werner Herzog, took Treadwell's tapes, added his own narration, and created what may be the most riveting, crazy, mind-blowing film of the year. You won't stop talking about it for weeks. Presented here in Traverse City through the generosity of Werner Herzog before its nationwide release.
Downfall
Germany - Italy
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film / 2005 Academy Awards. An extraordinary film about the final days in Hitler’s Bunker. Bruno Ganz is riveting as Adolf Hitler in this unflinching story as told by stenographer Traudi Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara). With defeat an almost certainty, this Gottërdämmerung of the Third Reich reveals its gods to be totally self-centered to the point of insanity.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
France - China / Drama
A best foreign film nominee at the Golden Globes, this lush, exotic love story from China is set during the Cultural Revolution of the early ‘70s. Two bright city boys must be “re-educated” and broken of their western ways, so they are sent to a remote mountainous village where no one can read or write. They stumble upon some hidden books and begin to read the stories of Balzac and Madame Bovary to the beautiful seamstress girl who becomes liberated by the literature.
The Woodsman
USA / Drama
One of the best -- and most overlooked -- films of 2004, Kevin Bacon turns in the performance of his career in role few actors would have the courage to take on. Walter is a pedophile who has just been released from prison. He has paid his dues and is determined to lead a normal life. There are those who loathe and hate him and those who try to befriend him. Every day is a struggle as he tries to come to grips with what he did – and the knowledge that he may do it again.
Human Resources
France / Drama
One of two films by French director Laurent Cantet in this festival, and winner of the French academy award for Best First Film. Human Resources is a contemporary tale about a working class son turned college graduate who comes home to the factory town where he grew up. Equipped with his MBA and hired in as part of management, young Frank must now execute the company's orders – which may result in the laying off of his own father who has worked in the plant for over 30 years.
Tarnation
USA / Doc.
Winner of the Los Angeles IFP/West Film Festival, Tarnation is the edgiest film in our line-up. Director Jonathan Caouette began making this film when he was 11, videotaping his harrowing up-bringing by a schizophrenic mother. Some 20 years later, he has created this brilliant film on his iMac, using his own footage, home movies, interviews and audio tapes, coupled with fast moving imagery and a score that has no rival in theaters today. This film speaks to the power of what movies can convey, yet you will never see anything like it at your local multiplex.
Italian for Beginners
Denmark-Sweden / Comedy
The San Francisco Chronicle said this film “makes the heart soar” and they couldn't be more right. It's a rare day when an adult romantic film like this comes along -- and when it does, it reminds you why you love going to the movies. Six strangers, three men and three women, sign up for an Italian class in a Denmark town. When the teacher unexpectedly quits, the adult students decide to continue the class and plan their first trip to Italy. Funny, poignant and bittersweet, this winner of the jury prize at the Berlin Festival is one movie not to be missed.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
USA / Doc.
Described by the L.A. Weekly as “fiercely intelligent, terrifying, and absurdly funny,” Enron is the largest-grossing documentary so far this year. It tells the Enron story in such a way that you can't believe what you are seeing - and yet every inch of this sordid tale is true. Compelling characters, scary villains, and a plot line that will have you laughing one minute and gasping the next. Enron finally tells it all about a company run on greed with friends in high places. The director, Alex Gibney, will appear in person at the screening.
The Edukators
Germany / Drama
Presented here in Traverse City before its American release, the best German film of the year (and official selection of the Cannes Film Festival), follows a group of twenty-somethings who have had enough of demonstrations and believe it's time to send a different kind of message. They form a clandestine gang called “The Edukators.” Their mission: break in to the homes of the rich, rearrange their furniture, and leave them a message about their greedy ways. But things go awry as sexual attraction intrudes, and a kidnapped CEO upsets their master plan.
Gunner Palace
USA / Doc.
Director Michael Tucker spent two months in Iraq living with the U.S. Army's 2/3 Field Artillery unit, a.k.a. “The Gunners.” Their barracks? Uday Hussein's pleasure palace -- complete with swimming pool and putting green. In between dangerous missions around Baghdad and dealing with a war that seems to have no end, these young troops try to maintain some semblance of their life back home. Strangers in a strange land, Gunner Palace takes you inside the war in a way you've never been.
A Good Woman
International
Looking for a great date movie? Here it is! A brand new film starring Scarlett Johansson, Helen Hunt and Tom Wilkinson, set on the Italian coast in the 1930s. Two American women on vacation find themselves intertwined in a web of love, betrayal, intrigue and reconciliation. Based on the Oscar Wilde play, “Mrs. Windermere's Fan,” A Good Woman will play here at the Traverse City Film Festival before its national release.
The Baxter
USA / Comedy
Prospective husbands come in two basic groups: the exciting, creative types whom you can't always depend on, and the “Baxters”– dependable, reliable, solid and boring. This new American comedy stars writer/director Michael Showalter as the Baxter, a man who continually loses his girlfriend or fiancé to the fun-loving ex-boyfriend who always seems to show up to sweep her away. Brilliant performances by Justin Theroux and Michelle Williams, this is that rare comedy for adults that
deserves to be seen.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
USA-Mexico
Again, one of the most overlooked films from last year (it didn't play within 200 miles of here). This brilliant film stars Sean Penn in a tour de force performance that surpasses his Oscar-winning role in Mystic River. It's a chilling drama that has little to do with Richard Nixon but everything to do with a man named Sam. His wife has left him and he realizes all his hopes and wishes may never come true. A masterful exploration of the dark side of the American Dream. With an excellent supporting cast including Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle.
Les Miserables
France / Drama
Finally, a film version of the Victor Hugo novel, and it's a masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, director Claude Lelouch takes this classic story and transports it to Nazi-occupied France. A Jewish family on the run is picked up by an illiterate ex-boxer named Fortin (played by the great French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo). Fortin searches for the strength to be the hero he never thought he could be in this rich, powerful and ageless story.
Time Out
France / Drama
A prize-winning film from the Venice Film Festival, this is our second film from French director Laurent Cantet. It tells the story of Vincent, a man who gets up every morning and goes to work. The only problem is, Vincent was laid off months ago. Too embarrassed to tell his wife and friends he no longer has a job, Vincent creates a series of lies which dig him in only deeper – with growing consequences and dangerous results.
The Talent Given Us
USA / Comedy-Drama
Made for $30,000 with a two-person crew, this hilarious, biting comedy about a dysfunctional family is already the most talked about film of the year. Roger Ebert calls it “brave” and Newsday says it's “breathtaking.” Director Andrew Wagner has cast his parents and his siblings in this story about a 70-year old couple from New York's upper west side who decide to drive to L.A. to see their loner son who's trying to make it as a filmmaker. Is it fact or fiction? Are they playing themselves? Who knows? It's real, it's painful, it's a riot. The director will attend the screening.
11 de Septembre
International / Compilation
Eleven of the world's top directors were commissioned to make an 11-minute film, fiction or nonfiction, with a storyline that reflected their own vision of the world after the tragedy of September 11, 2001. The shorts were then compiled into this one movie and the results are profound, moving, controversial, and sublime. Simply put, there is nothing like this anywhere, and we have these fine directors – Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Sean Penn and others – to thank for this most compelling and urgent piece of art and commentary.
Broken Flowers
USA / Comedy
The Grand Prize Winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Broken Flowers stars Bill Murray as a man who receives an anonymous note from one of his ex-girlfriends telling him he has a son. He thus embarks on a journey to find him. This intelligent comedy also stars Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton. Broken Flowers is being made available by its director, Jim Jarmusch, before its American release, to the Traverse City Film Festival as our closing night film.
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07-26-05, 10:40 PM
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A lot of those are available on DVD already, or are at least in the theaters. I don't see this becoming a Sundance rival unless that changes. It seems like a fun event, but comparable to Sundance it is not.
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Are there any appearances by filmmakers or anything? I routinely check out the Florida Film festival to listen to seminars and what not.
"Is It Art? Is It Politics? Traverse City Wants to Know,"
Thursday, July 28:
A live, on-stage talk with Michael Moore about the line between art and politics and what makes for good cinema.
"Is Fiction Dead? The Rise of Documentary Films,"
Friday, July 29:
Documentary directors Alex Gibney ("Enron") and Marilyn Agrelo ("Mad Hot Ballroom") will square off with fiction writers Ethan Canin ("Emperor of the Air") and Bob Sloan (author of the Lenny Bliss crime novels). They'll discuss why fictional movies seem to be dying at the box office while documentaries are getting more and more popular. New York Times best-selling author Doug Stanton will moderate.
"Hollywood Confidential: Stories We Will Only Tell in Traverse City,"
Saturday, July 30:
Hollywood writers, directors and agents tell tales out of school about what it's really like to work in Tinseltown. Panelists include Rob Tappert, producer of "Spiderman"; Larry Brand, screenwriter of "Halloween"; Chuck Pfarrer, screenwriter for "The Jackal" and "Darkman"; HBO producer Rebecca Reynolds; Animator Robert Hughes, director of “Angry Beavers” and others.
"How to Make a Great Movie for $30,000,"
Sunday, July 31:
A discussion with director Andrew Wagner ("The Talent Given Us") and Jonathan Caouette ("Tarnation") about making hit movies with hardly any money. Producer and composer Jeff Gibbs will moderate.
07-26-05, 11:06 PM
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wow...another TC dvdtalker!?!?!?!?!?! It's about time!!! I'll be at the Sat. panel....and right now have tix for Me You and Everyone You Know on thursday and The Baxter on Saturday....
07-26-05, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by NatrlBornThrllr
A lot of those are available on DVD already, or are at least in the theaters. I don't see this becoming a Sundance rival unless that changes. It seems like a fun event, but comparable to Sundance it is not.
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there are far more that haven't been released at all stateside than are on dvd. Never mind that this is the first year, and Moore admits organizing it began later than he hoped. Having Broken Flowers and Grizzly Man alone marks this as an important event.
07-26-05, 11:29 PM
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Gunner Palace, Human Resources, Time Out, Italian For Beginners, and 9/11 are out on DVD, but so what? Sundance is overrated. Smaller festivals are always more fun.
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"Is It Art? Is It Politics? Traverse City Wants to Know,"
Thursday, July 28:
A live, on-stage talk with Michael Moore about the line between art and politics and what makes for good cinema.
Thursday, July 28:
A live, on-stage talk with Michael Moore about the line between art and politics and what makes for good cinema.
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This thread is for discussion of the Traverse City Film Festival - not Michael Moore's politics. Any further threadcraps will result in suspensions. This is the only warning. -Blake
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Funny that he's hosting this one, I don't even think he knows where the line goes. As for good cinema...Michael Moore?
07-30-05, 05:36 AM
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Now with 2 film festivals I guess West Michigan is now the film capital of the world 
. You know what Werner Herzog will be doing there next year? Bringing one of his films, doing an Q & A?
. You know what Werner Herzog will be doing there next year? Bringing one of his films, doing an Q & A?
07-30-05, 11:15 AM
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He'll be on a panel. He gave Grizzly Man to this year's fest for free....must be a communist 
Saw Me and You and Everyone We Know on Thursday...simply fantastic. Very impressive debut, and the 'back and forth' scene is one of the funniest things i've ever seen in a film.
Going to see The Baxter today....maybe one more if I have time.
Saw Me and You and Everyone We Know on Thursday...simply fantastic. Very impressive debut, and the 'back and forth' scene is one of the funniest things i've ever seen in a film.
Going to see The Baxter today....maybe one more if I have time.
07-30-05, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by brizz
Michael Moore has done a wonderful thing for northern Michigan, organizing a film festival to be hosted in Traverse City. It's the first of hopefully many, and hopes to rival Sundance, Telluride, etc. in the coming years. The headlining film is Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, Starring Bill Murray and about a dozen well known actresses (S. Stone, J. Delpy, J. Lange....etc etc)
It's really quite a cool thing and just thought i'd post this for any other michiganders who might make it up...here is the complete film line-up, including a handful of other U.S. debuts of domestic and foreign releases. I'm going to try and see a few...unfortunately Broken Flowers is already sold out
Broken Flowers
USA / Comedy
The Grand Prize Winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Broken Flowers stars Bill Murray as a man who receives an anonymous note from one of his ex-girlfriends telling him he has a son. He thus embarks on a journey to find him. This intelligent comedy also stars Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton. Broken Flowers is being made available by its director, Jim Jarmusch, before its American release, to the Traverse City Film Festival as our closing night film.
It's really quite a cool thing and just thought i'd post this for any other michiganders who might make it up...here is the complete film line-up, including a handful of other U.S. debuts of domestic and foreign releases. I'm going to try and see a few...unfortunately Broken Flowers is already sold out
Broken Flowers
USA / Comedy
The Grand Prize Winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Broken Flowers stars Bill Murray as a man who receives an anonymous note from one of his ex-girlfriends telling him he has a son. He thus embarks on a journey to find him. This intelligent comedy also stars Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton. Broken Flowers is being made available by its director, Jim Jarmusch, before its American release, to the Traverse City Film Festival as our closing night film.
The 10 pm showing of Broken Flowers is NOT sold out.
07-30-05, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by brizz
So anyway, am I correct that this is the U.S. debut of Broken Flowers following it's win at Cannes?
Last edited by Cygnet74; 07-30-05 at 02:41 PM.
08-01-05, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by brizz
He'll be on a panel. He gave Grizzly Man to this year's fest for free....must be a communist
