Cuba, Beatles in film festival
Filmmaker Michael Moore says the 2010 Traverse City Film Festival will be a "brazen, incendiary celebration of art -- and specifically, the art of cinema."Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" and Sam Taylor-Wood's "Nowhere Boy" will open the fest, which will show more than 100 movies and offer some ...
“Kids” and “Boy” to Open Michael Moore’s Traverse City Fest
Now in its sixth year, Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival unveiled its 2010 lineup. The festival, started by the “Capitalism: A Love Story” filmmaker in 2005, brings independent and international films to a Michigan population that rarely gets to see such work. Lisa Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are All Right” ...
Traverse City Film Festival announces schedule
TRAVERSE CITY -- The quality of American independent cinema is crashing. So says Michael Moore, founder of the Traverse City Film Festival. He said he had to screen more than 500 movies for this year’s festival, scheduled for July 27-Aug. 1, and still had trouble finding enough that met his ...
Michael Moore chosen for Oscar board
His name is Moore, Gov. Moore.Oscar-winning filmmaker and Flint native Michael Moore has been elected to the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. The group oversees the Oscars.Moore, whose "Bowling for Columbine" won the 2002 Oscar for best documentary feature, and 2010 Oscar darling ...
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 ...
Moore screens new 'Capitalism' documentary
Filmmaker: Mich.-based production educated crew about state's economic painsBy Eartha Jane Melzer / Michigan MessengerBELLAIRE ? Director Michael Moore's new documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story" made its U.S. debut over the weekend as a fundraiser for the Antrim County Democratic Party at the single-screen cinema in this small Northern Michigan ...
Michael Moore plans Traverse City comedy festival
By John Flesher TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Oscar winner Michael Moore has more big plans for his adopted northern Michigan hometown of Traverse City, where he's already established a film festival. Moore said Saturday that he and comedian Jeff Garlin, a star and executive producer of the HBO series ...
No joke! Plans in the works for comedy fest
By Lindsay Vanhulle / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY -- If you want funny people to come to Traverse City in the middle of winter, invite them in March. People who live here know it doesn't matter what the calendar says -- there's still just as much snow in the ...
Michael Moore plans Traverse City comedy, arts fest
By Adam Graham / Detroit News Traverse City -- When it comes to Michael Moore's plans for this northern Michigan resort town, his film festival is just the beginning. During a discussion panel at the fifth annual Traverse City Film Festival Saturday, Moore, along with comedian Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your ...
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 ...
Fest lineup has films from 30 countries
By Jodee Taylor / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY -- Documentaries "starring planet Earth," movies from Tehran, Texas and Norway, and short movies by budding filmmakers help make up the lineup of 121 movies at this year's Traverse City Film Festival. There are 71 features and 50 shorts on this ...
Michael Moore's 'Slacker Uprising' surfaces for free on the Web for three weeks
By Jake Ziegler / Kalamazoo Gazette TRAVERSE CITY -- Many words have been used to describe documentary director Michael Moore, but conventional is not one of them. His latest film, "Slacker Uprising," is being offered to audiences on the Web for three weeks starting today, free of charge. It is ...
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, ...
Michael Moore's pals make documentary films
By John Flesher / Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – They make movies that deal with unpleasant topics such as war and racism, yet are entertaining and even humorous. They're passionate, mischievously creative, politically liberal. Does this sound like "Michael Moore The Next Generation"? If so, there's a good reason. ...
Traverse City Film Festival 2008
Michigan Roots "... we need, and I need, Michael Moore in my life." – Madonna (PHOTOS | PHOTOS | VIDEO) "She does so much out of the glare of the lights to make the world a better place." – Michael Moore "You can take the girl out of Michigan, but ...
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 brings movie to Michigan
BBC News Pop singer Madonna has presented I Am Because We Are, her documentary about Malawi orphans, at the Traverse City film festival in northern Michigan. The musician turned film producer was met at the screening by director and fellow Michigan native, Michael Moore. Madonna, who was born in Bay ...
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, ...
Moore, panel engage in funny talk
By Tom Long / Detroit News TRAVERSE CITY -- Director Michael Moore led a panel of show biz veterans through an examination of the roots, limits and importance of comedy Saturday morning at the Traverse City Film Festival, and if there was one thing everyone agreed on, it's that comedy ...
Madonna makes Michigan film fest
By Tom Long / Detroit News Madonna will rock the Traverse City Film Festival on Saturday night, introducing "I Am Because We Are," a film she wrote and produced, to two sold-out houses Saturday night. Well, maybe "rock" isn't quite the right word, since the film is about the effect ...
Panel discussion is take on terrorism
Filmmakers share perspectives on Mideast, war and terror By Gretchen Murray / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY -- Filmmakers whose movies captured life and war in Iraq shared their insights with a Traverse City audience. An eight-member panel of documentary filmmakers gathered Thursday during the Traverse City Film Festival to ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
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 ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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