Tag: michael moore
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Michael Moore Visits Occupy Wall Street – But Is He Part of the One Percent?
Michael Moore visited the Occupy Wall Street protest this week, but does it matter if he’s part of the one percent?
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Interview: Max Fisher Talks Traverse City LipDub
Wish your life was more like a movie? The folks in Traverse City, Michigan, got to check it out while participating in the Traverse City LipDub.
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Traverse City Film Festival 2011: That’s a Wrap!
That’s a wrap for the 7th Traverse City Film Festival. “Just great movies” in a lovely locale overflowing with ripe cherries, cold bays, and polite people.
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Traverse City Film Festival 2011: Jane’s Best Bets
The Traverse City Film Festival 2011 is rapidly approaching! Check out the films I’ll be seeing, including Made in Dagenham, All Good Things, and Rid of Me.
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Michael Moore, Ken Burns Tapped for Keith Olbermann’s Show
I read with interest last week that Keith Olbermann has lined up some interesting contributors for his show ‘Countdown,’ returning on June 20, 2011 and airing each night on Current TV at 8 p.m. As with the original incarnation of the show at MSNBC (he parted ways with the network in January 2011), this upcoming…
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Michael Moore on The Hollywood Machine: Where Are All the Smart American Movies?
While talking with Michael Moore about the Traverse City Film Festival a few weeks ago, he mentioned the fact that he had to look outside the country for good films this year. The reason? Because American distributors aren’t willing to spend money on a film if they don’t think it can make money. I wrote…
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Interview: Michael Moore on Republican Hugs, Profound Movies, and the Traverse City Film Festival
The 6th Annual Traverse City Film Festival runs this week from Tuesday, July 27 through Sunday, August 1, in Traverse City, Michigan (my home town!). The film festival just gets better and better each year. It not only brings hundreds of great movies to northern Michigan that we wouldn’t otherwise see on the big screen…
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Film Gecko Flashback: Michael Moore on the Origins of the Traverse City Film Festival
This summer marks the sixth year of the Traverse City Film Festival, and I thought it’d be fun to hark back to the origins of the festival, how it got started, and how founder Michael Moore rallied people far and wide to get involved. Since I live in Traverse City, the film festival has been…