Scenes from two movies have special resonance for me. Both scenes are poignant and especially cinematic, underlining the depth and range of program set out at the fifth Traverse City Film Festival.
In Jan Troll’s masterful “Everlasting Moments” we follow a woman as she picks up a camera and becomes empowered in unexpected ways. [...]
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Making Choices at 2009 Traverse City Film Festival
August 12, 2009TCFF 2007
August 23, 2007TCFF 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, 2006The 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, 2006Stanley 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, 2006My 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, 2006The 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, [...]
