More Michael Moore: Traverse City Film Festival....starts tomorrow!

[Gabi Hayes]

http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/

July 27-July 31

this is Michael Moore's baby, and it's got some really good movies, including prize winners, premiers, etc.

AND, the best part is.....the wing nuts are FURIOUS! they've got their own, alternate, Love America version, scheduled in opposition

they REALLY REALLY can't stand him, can they, the poor twits:

A film festival being organized by left-wing director Michael Moore has some right-wing competition.

A local activist and a conservative group from Texas said last week they were putting together an alternative to the Traverse City Film Festival, which Moore and residents of this Lake Michigan community are organizing.

"People are fed up and tired with the extreme left-wing radical fringe -- America haters, family haters, Christian haters," said Genie Aldrich, a resident of nearby Suttons Bay and founder of the Traverse Bay Freedom Film Festival. She tried unsuccessfully last month to dissuade the City Commission from letting Moore's group show films in a municipal waterfront park.

"I like it when Republicans take ideas of mine," said Moore, a Flint native who has residences in neighboring Antrim County and New York City. "I have a few more where those came from, if they'd like to sit down and talk."

http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0507/14/B08-246897.htm

Bill Murray is going to be there, speaking the last night, at the premiere of his new Jim Jarmusch movie (with Sharon Stone!).

list of the movies available....$7 per show, except opening/closing nights

list of movies, venues:
http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/sections/info/info.html

thumbnails on each movie:
http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/

If anybody's within reach, it might be an interesting weekend. I think I'll be going, as much to see what sort of turnout the crybabies have with their excellent competition, including at least one movie by somebody who loathes Bush.

[lvx35]

1. Damn it!

If things had gone a little differently I was scheduled to be in Interlochen, right outside Traverse City, this weekened...But as it is, I'm stuck in Seattle. D'oh! :cry:

[Gabi Hayes]

2. poor Genie and her "Freedom Fest"

''She tried unsuccessfully last month to dissuade the City Commission from letting Moore's group show films in a municipal waterfront park.''

I wonder if Genie Sutton sees the irony in the title of her little festival, funded, no doubt, by those outside agitators from Texas


here are the america-hating, family-hating, christian-hating movies that Moore is showing--free of charge--to the public:

Princess Bride
Casablanca
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Homage to Pres. Dumbass?)
Jaws

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[Gabi Hayes]

4. buh bye, now....don't hurt yourself on that nasty keyboard

it might be plugged into an electrical device

or something

C ya

B ya

[Verve]

5. Darn! I love Traverse City and that area.

Would love to be going. Hope to hear all about it next week from fellow DUers who went.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. I'll be looking hard for Madmike

sounds like a real man's man

[Verve]

9. I don't think you'll be seeing him hanging around here anymore.

Rest in Peace!:nopity:

[peekaloo]

7. Rats. I hate America, families AND Christians but I'm miles away.

These freedom fighters need a new script.

:eyes:

Viva le Michael Moore! }(

[mn9driver]

8. I'll be there on the 31st.

By coincidence. The hotel has good internet, so I'll post if something interesting goes on.

[alfredo]

10. I don't see much to excite the reich wingers, unless kids dancing

or Love stories and comedies upset them.