Category Archives: Movies

Mitch Albom on the Michigan Film Incentive

January 12, 2009 – 9:15 pm

They're coming, and they're liking what they're seeing and we have a chance to seed a new industry in the state of Michigan.
~Mitch Albom
Scott Allman has produced a great interview with Mitch Albom about the Michigan Film Incentive. Check it out below!

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Film of Michigan's Timber Harvest in the 1950s (with much emphasis on food)

January 5, 2009 – 6:38 pm

Seeking Michigan presents a video of the "modern timber harvest" from the 1950s by Walter Hastings. I haven't even watched the whole thing but I already know that you'll want to! The film describes how wood is cut and delivered to the mill ... with a lengthy interlude about life at a logging camp including [...]

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Michitwitter for January 2009

January 2, 2009 – 12:48 pm

Here are some news, comments and other stuff from January of 2009.
Photo: You with the camera, enough pictures!! by Daylily18

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Takin' it easy Tuesday

December 9, 2008 – 11:41 am

The photo is Shall We? Let's Shall by photoshoparama and I think that about all I want to add is check out Michitwitter for all kinds of Michigan news nuggets.

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Michitwitter for December 2008

November 12, 2008 – 5:37 pm

Read a good article or blog post about Michigan? See a cool picture or video?
Scroll down to post your comments about whatever below. Please keep them brief and friendly!
Photo: You with the camera, enough pictures!! by Daylily18

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Spotlight: Green on the Big Screen – An Environmental Film Festival & Fair

November 4, 2008 – 10:30 am

Michigan State University's College of Communication Arts & Sciences and the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism are partnering with the East Lansing Film Festival to present Green on the Big Screen, an environmental film festival and fair to be held November 13-16.
The four-day event on the MSU campus will reach across the university to the [...]

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Spotlight: The Mitten Movie Project Presents 'ZOMBIE NIGHT' A Night of Independent Zombie Films

October 30, 2008 – 10:51 am

Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Main Art Theatre, 118 N. Main Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067
The Mitten Movie Project is a monthly film night dedicated to screening independent films the first Tuesday of every month at the Main Art Theatre (118 N. Main Street, Royal oak, MI 48067). Presale tickets are available for $8. Tickets [...]

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Road Trip: 50th Anniversary of Anatomy of a Murder Celebration

September 18, 2008 – 12:51 pm

The Library of Michigan is spearheading a series of special events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1958 publication of Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver. Traver was the pen name of Marquette County attorney, prosecutor, and Michigan Supreme Court Justice, John D. Voelker, who used his experience with the legal system [...]

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Blogs We Dig: tcff/blog (Traverse City Film Festival Blog)

July 31, 2008 – 12:08 pm

TCFF2008 by tcfilmfest
tcff/blog is an great blog covering the the also great Traverse City Film Festival. This film festival is committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms — the cinema. TCFF blogger John Williams informs us that:
Day one of the TCFF panels was a [...]

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Detroit Windsor International Film Festival – June 26-29, 2008

June 17, 2008 – 11:12 am

6 by Dane Van
From June 26th to the 29th, 2008, the inaugural Detroit Windsor International Film Festival takes place all around Detroit and Windsor. Screenings and events will be held at the Scarab Club, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Detroit Public Library and the campuses of Wayne State University, the College for Creative [...]

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