Before tonight's screening of "The Goonies" at the Open Space there will be a treasure hunt. People will be chosen at random to follow their own treasure map, just like the Goonies in the movie, and possibly win free film festival merchandise.
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Filmmaker Joe Berlinger ("Crude") told a good-sized panel audience at the City Opera House that he was impressed by how many attended the Wednesday session -- in the morning, no less. He mentioned possibly spending his next vacation in Traverse City.
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This year's featured filmmaker Paul Mazursky finds Traverse City a bit more cosmopolitan than he expected. He told movie-goers at "Enemies: A Love Story" that he thought it would be "more Midwesty ... like Fargo," but said he found it "hipper than L.A.," except that people dress more "normal."
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The lineup has been announced for the Venice Film Festival, scheduled for Sept. 2-12. In competition for the Golden Lion is "Capitalism: A Love Story," by Michael Moore.
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While introducing "Rachel," a movie about their daughter's death in Gaza, Cindy and Craig Corrie said, "We're co-producers of Rachel -- not the movie, the person." They thanked Michael Moore for helping keep their daughter's story in the forefront. Moore said he helped produce a play based on Rachel Corrie's letters that ran in New York.
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Balloon artist Jason Hackenwerth, who wowed crowds at the film festival's opening night street party, is taking his show on the road. He's planning on taking a sculpture or two to Bay Ridge Assisted Living this weekend to wow the crowds there, too.
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A story about this week's "Woodstock" screenings that included a play on words from the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young hit song of the same name had some readers scratching their heads -- and pointed up a generation gap between the "now generation" and generations now. The song about the infamous 1969 music and art festival included the lyrics, "By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong." In the story, that number was changed to "half a thousand" -- about the number of seats the State Theatre holds.
