Archive for the 'Traverse City Film Festival' Category

TCFF 2007

August 23, 2007

TCFF 2007 Fiction Jury Awards

Best Feature: Rocket Science
This entertaining film stars Reece Daniel Thompson as Hal Hafner, a young man of few words. He is a high school student in Plainsboro, New Jersey where his persistent stutter leads to countless indignities at the hands of his classmates.
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Special Jury Prize For Visual Impact: Tuya’s Marriage
Not only [...]

Wednesday - Day Three (Three Months Later)

November 22, 2006

The name BackBay is appropriate seeing how often I post. Maybe BarnacleBay would be better. I sometimes get stuck on things and I stop in my tracks. As I wrote of my reaction to La Moustache I mulled on the issue of how much of the film [...]

Day Two

August 3, 2006

Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus is a film that I have purposely avoided on the small screen. I was rewarded today with a big screen experience of this epic at The State Theatre. The presentation included a musical prologue and intermission music. It is a great film with a stellar cast: Woody Strode, Tony Curtis, [...]

Opening Night

August 1, 2006

My son and I went to the 9:00 pm. screening of Pittsburgh. Jeff Goldblum executive produced and stars in this self-referential comedy. The real dazzle of the evening came before the film started. A band I had never heard of did a mini concert for the audience and they were outstanding. [...]

Traverse City Film Festival

July 28, 2006

The second TCFF opens Monday. Boston Light & Sound is back handling the projection of film. Bill Hill of Hilltop Productions is back film inspection, makeup and traffic control. The Kubrick retrospective is 35mm film. Standardized Technical Services is new this year. They will handle all electronic image presentations.
Michael Moore, [...]