Michael Moore working to revive downtown movie theaters
Traverse City, Mich. -- For generations, Americans viewed films in stately, single-screen theaters that were pillars of city business districts -- an experience that faded with the rise of suburban multiplexes and the decline of downtowns.Michael Moore wants to bring those theaters back. The Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker has a ...
Michael Moore says story comes before stars at Traverse City Film Festival
TRAVERSE CITY -- Michael Moore does not underestimate the intelligence of the moviegoing public.You can tell by the way the famed filmmaker and Michigander programs the Traverse City Film Festival every year with foreign films, documentaries, shorts and classics that don't tread on typical Hollywood territory. The numbers back him ...
Ticket sales up for Traverse City film fest
Michael Moore used to believe that tough times produced great movies. The Depression years are often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood. The years surrounding the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the rise of the American independent film.So why, as artistic director of ...
TRAVERSE CITY — The trio who launched the Traverse City Film Festival, a burgeoning northern Michigan cultural and economic powerhouse, are recipients of this year's Lyle DeYoung Award.Filmmaker Michael Moore, the Film Festival's founder, along with co-founders Doug Stanton and John Robert Williams, received the Downtown Traverse City Association's 18th ...
Michael Moore, Jeff Garlin announce Michigan comedy fest
TRAVERSE CITY — Hear the one about the comedians who went looking for a warm spot to perform in February? They wound up in northern Michigan, where snowfall tops 100 inches a year. Actually, this is no joke. Filmmaker Michael Moore, who started a summer film festival five years ago ...
By Michael Phillips / Chicago Tribune Want to treat your behind like royalty? Introduce it to a seat in the State Theatre in downtown Traverse City sometime, preferably during the annual Traverse City Film Festival. Founded and curated by filmmaker Michael Moore, the 5-year-old event—a very good one, considering the ...
Film Festival exceeds wildest expectations ...by Traverse City Record-Eagle
Traverse City Record-EagleWhen filmmaker Michael Moore and some friends suggested the Traverse City Film Festival in 2005, reactions were all over the map. Film lovers -- including most Michael Moore fans -- thought it was great. Showing a few good films in the old State Theatre and maybe the City ...
Traverse City Film Festival turns 5 years old
By Vanessa McCray / Traverse City Record-EagleTRAVERSE CITY -- The film festival is 5 years old. If it were a kid, it would be going to kindergarten. And it is, kind of. This year, the Traverse City Film Festival added a film school -- one of many developments to occur ...
Ithaca College’s Park Center for Independent Media presents first Izzy Award By Becca Burns / Ithacan Standing behind the podium, Amy Goodman's voice resonated to the back of the State Theatre. She spoke forcefully, striking the air with her fists as she discussed the importance of the independent media. "We ...
Michael Moore welcomes capacity crowd for inauguration
By John Flesher / Associated Press Clean-shaven and without his trademark baseball cap, filmmaker Michael Moore welcomed a capacity crowd of 550 to the State Theatre in his adopted hometown of Traverse City, where the inaugural festivities were shown live on a 55-foot-wide screen. “It’s a relief for the majority ...
Community watches history on big screen
Hundreds of people watched the history-making moment on the big screen. Nearly 600 people packed the State Theatre in Traverse City lining up outside around 9 a.m. By Sheena Elzie / WPBN TV7&4 Hundreds of people watched the history-making moment on the big screen. Nearly 600 people packed the State ...
Watching history on the big screen; sold out theatre gives front row seats to inauguration
9&10 News Many of those who didn't get tickets or couldn't make it to the capital, found another way to enjoy today's inauguration... on the big screen. More than 550 people joined Michael Moore in the Traverse City State Theatre to watch the inaugural events. People started filing in to ...
Hundreds join Michael Moore to watch inauguration at Traverse City theater
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Filmmaker Michael Moore welcomed a capacity crowd of about 550 to the State Theatre in Traverse City, where they watched President Obama's inauguration on the big screen. The theater is headquarters for a film festival Moore co-founded several years ago. Moore, an outspoken liberal, said ...
Moore's film gets another showing at State
By Marta Hepler Drahos / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY -- Film buffs who missed this summer's sneak peek at Michael Moore's new movie "Slacker Uprising" will get a second chance on Sunday. The movie, which documents Moore's 62-city national tour to register young voters during the 2004 presidential campaign, ...
Madonna: film was 'journey of lifetime'
By Vanessa McCray / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY -- World-famous superstar Madonna made a warm and much-welcomed return to her home state. "There's a lot of poetic things about me being here ...," Madonna told a packed State Theatre crowd Saturday night. "You know what they say. You can ...
Madonna returns to Michigan roots to show her film
By John Flesher / Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but there's more than a little of the small-town Michigan girl left in Madonna. The pop superstar arrived in this northern Michigan resort town Saturday to introduce her documentary, "I Am ...
Madonna back in Michigan to show her documentary
By John Flesher / Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Madonna arrived in this resort town Saturday as one of the headliners of a film festival founded by fellow Michigan native Michael Moore. Hundreds of fans cheered from behind barricades as Madonna, wearing a black dress, high heels and sunglasses, ...
Michael Moore: I've got my Madonna shorts on today
By Julie Hinds / Detroit Free Press Michael Moore brought the funny to the Traverse City Film Festival this morning, hosting a panel discussion on comedy at the City Opera House. “I’ve got my Madonna shorts on today,” said the festival’s founder, who paired them with a black T-shirt. Tonight, ...
By Margaret Parsons / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY — Zoe Allen-Wickler watched her sister Olivia's animated short film, "The Dancing Skeleton," become a Traverse City Film Festival favorite. But Allen-Wickler, of Suttons Bay, didn't want her sister to have all the fun. So she created her own animated short, ...
Michael Moore speaks with scouts
Filmmaker stresses community service and the art of filmmaking By Carol South / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- A week at Boy Scout camp usually means archery, swimming, canoeing, lifesaving and other physical activities based in the great outdoors. Camp Greilick, however, also offers a media-savvy twist on ...
Action! Film Festival kicks off in TC
'Out of Africa' screenwriter honored By Marta Hepler Drahos / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY, MI — Oscar-winning screenwriter Kurt Luedtke will be the first celebrity to leave his mark on the new Traverse City Film Festival Walk of Fame. Film festival founder Michael Moore made the announcement at Tuesday’s ...
Festival praised for attracting new tourists
By Melissa Domsic / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY -- About 200,000 paid and free admissions to the Traverse City Film Festival prove its popularity the past three years, but festival founder Michael Moore hopes to position the area as more than a quick stop for movie buffs and popcorn-munching ...
Panels, screenings added to Film Fest schedule
By Vanessa McCray / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY -- Mull moviemaking with Michael Moore or chuckle with Larry Charles at five free discussion panels scheduled for the Traverse City Film Festival. Moore, festival president and founder, announced the lineup and topics for this year's panels. The discussions start at ...
Traverse City buzzing at the chance to see Madonna
By Julie Hinds / Free Press Reservations for Saturday started pouring in more than a month ago to Red Ginger. Tables usually are booked a few days in advance at the popular Asian-themed restaurant in Traverse City. But this won't be any old day for businesses and residents of the ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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