Media lined up so far (for anyone who cares about these things):
KARE-11 Saturday morning 9:40a.m. (will show clips)
MPR Weekend America (supposed to air before the first screening on Saturday)
WCCO Sunday morning 10:45a.m. (will show clips)
Pioneer Press - article on film in Sunday's paper (Winter Carnival section)
Strib is supposedly doing a piece on the film, but I don't know the nature of it or when it's appearing (probably either tomorrow or Saturday)
TPT Almanac (next Friday evening)
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All screening dates and times stay the same -- except for the 5th. On the 5th, the 12:30pm screening will be at Oak Street Cinema (instead of at the Bell).
309 Oak Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
(near the intersection of Oak and Washington in Stadium Village).
The 3pm show on Feb 5th has been changed to a 5pm screening on Friday, Feb. 4th at the Bell. So the revised screening times are as follows.
"No Time for Cold Feet" Screenings
Bell Auditorium
Sat. Jan. 22nd -- 12:30pm, 3pm
Sun. Jan. 23rd -- 12:30pm, 3pm
Sat. Jan. 29th -- 12:30pm, 3pm
Fri. Feb. 4th -- 5pm
Sat. Feb. 5th -- 12:30pm (at Oak Street Cinema)
Sun. Feb. 6th -- 12:30pm, 3pm
Tickets
$8 - adults
$5.50 - seniors, children under 12
There will be no advance ticket sales. Tickets for the 12:30pm show will go on sale at 12noon. Once the first show starts, the second show's tickets will go on sale (at approximately 12:45pm).
The Bell Museum Auditorium is located at 17th and University Ave. S.E. on the University of MN East Bank campus in the Bell Museum of Natural History.
Bell Museum Of Natural History
10 Church St SE
Minneapolis MN 55455
(612) 624-7083
Please see this website for Bell Auditorium parking and directions:
http://www.mnfilmarts.org/?venue=2&page=5
Oak Street Cinema
309 Oak Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
(near the intersection of Oak and Washington in Stadium Village).
From what we understand, parking is free on Sundays - though we have not been able to independently verify this.
Here's a link to the News AD that will appear in the Pioneer Press:
http://www.notanotherhollywoodfilm.com/coldfeet/pp_cold_feet_ad.pdf
The movie rocks.... definately gonna see it again while its playin....Â
Aight... im out for food... see ya'll at the Pre
Mappy, Jake me2 & I watched it a second time. It was kinda weird that both audiences acted a little different from one another. Although all the one-liners still had them both laughing out loud! I especially liked the one Timmer's dad said at clue 12 in CoNo: "I can't even find my kid how am I gonna find a little medallion" LOLÂ
I thought the editing and score were just perfect!
Fantastic Job Trent & Jackie!!!
Was there a good crowd there?
I'd say about 1/2 full at both
dub nick - you looked good on the big screen
great flick - really fun
I taped the 10:00 'CCO news and they were pimpin the movie and plugging the spot on tomorrow's morning broadcast. Tell them how packed it was today Trent & Jackie.
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loved it myself
Nice seein' ya 2 night KOP
U 2 CM I had a great time.
I can finally make a strong drink now that I'm cozy at home.
doing the same great day ....NOW LETS FIND THE PUCK
WOW! An unclaimed Joe. You must be drunk or something. ;-)
AS I was far far away from the keyboard last night.....
Trent.... That movie was so ON!
We loved it!
Great Job Jackie and Trent!!!
Will there be a sequel? :)
It was a great time!! Hey if there is a sequal I want to be in it:):)
I talked to Trent & Jackie very briefly last night and commented something to the extent that I didn't know how non medallion hunters would take the movie.
They said it was very much liked by those that have seen the showings they have done in NY.
They'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but the showings they did in NY was just pieces of the film, not what we saw yesterday.
You know what I really appreciate about the movie (and the upcoming DVD)? Its that we all have this wonderful film about a piece of our personal histories. It is something we will be able to refer back to over and over again.
BTW
If you are looking for extras on that DVD Trent just give us a call ;-)
It really was great!
I think one thing that was missed from the film, is all the activity outside of actually being out there digging in the park.
Such as how much everyone hangs together like at Rockin Lobster & The Buttery & McGoverns & the bars and restaraunts near the park....
Or Steve (or whoever), but mostly Steve, getting home to his wife @ 3:00 in the morning and then having to get up for work @ 6:00.
They said some of these things in the movie, but you didn't actually get to see it.
To put it simply, in my opinion some of the best moments of "the hunt" don't actually happen out in the parks.
Maybe they will have the space to address that in the extras on the DVD?
You know what parts I liked about the movie? The parts I was in! Man, I'd have to say those were the best parts.
But seriously though, what a great display of mise-en-scene, cinementography, and other such stuff. Well done!
WCCO just had them on!
Mostly Camo crew and a shot of Jake walking in Harriet
missed that was still a sleep WOW great nite
joe
misseed that too. batting 1000
got up at 12:30 -coffee in hand- I wanted to go to the screenings today but still tired after CLOSING THE BAR DOWN! with DDY, Marley and Artemis and Clue Master.
(Ares, Kids, TC, Becksie, Nick and some guy with nice teeth left right before us).
THE MOVIE ROCKED!
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Ian and 3M - it doesnt matter if its soft or hard as long as it feels good!
dam, i wish i could remember more about this.
http://websports.8m.com/HTML/cluewriter.html
[Edited by on Jan 23, 2005 at 01:53pm.]
You know what I really appreciate about the movie (and the upcoming DVD)? Its that we all have this wonderful film about a piece of our personal histories. It is something we will be able to refer back to over and over again.
Yes it is a glimpse of our lives forever burned on a disk!
I think one thing that was missed from the film, is all the activity outside of actually being out there digging in the park.
Such as how much everyone hangs together like at Rockin Lobster & The Buttery & McGoverns & the bars and restaraunts near the park....
Or Steve (or whoever), but mostly Steve, getting home to his wife @ 3:00 in the morning and then having to get up for work @ 6:00.
They said some of these things in the movie, but you didn't actually get to see it.
To put it simply, in my opinion some of the best moments of "the hunt" don't actually happen out in the parks.
I also had that thought. They mentioned the internet, but really didn't show how after all day digging we still can't sleep and slog msgs.
Ian 1/23/05 1:52pm
me2:
Ian and 3M - it doesnt matter if its soft or hard as long as it feels good!
dam, i wish i could remember more about this.
Yea, me2.
[Edited by Michele30 on Jan 23, 2005 at 03:06pm.]
Movie Celebrates Medallion Treasure Hunt
Jan 23, 2005 10:50 pm US/Central
(WCCO)
The timing of the Twin Cities' first real snowstorm couldn't be better for the St. Paul Winter Carnival.
The flakes fell just in time to bury this year's Treasure Hunt Medallion. But instead of grabbing shovels, many medallion hunters headed to the U of M's East Bank ... and sat in the dark.
They gathered at the Bell Museum of Natural History to watch "No Time for Cold Feet," a new documentary about the annual treasure hunt. One of its stars is known as "Camo Dan."
"It really is a fantastic, fantastic picture of the treasure hunt," Dan Fleming said of the movie. "If this doesn't grab you, nothing will."
The filmmakers spent four years following these crazy, intense 12 days.
"There's so much crammed ... nothing matters ... job doesn't matter ... boyfriend doesn't matter," filmmaker Jackie Garry said. "The hunt is everything."
Some rely on their brains during the Medallion Treasure Hunt and try to think through each clue. Others use their brawn to move tons of snow.
They hunt for a medallion, for a $10,000 prize. Some hunt for much more: success, stamina, self-confidence.
As the movie let out, the hunters looked forward to a rare night of rest. In a couple of days, they'll really hit the parks hard-core. Some will be up until 3 a.m., sifting through fresh snow.
The event's sponsor, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, published its first clue Sunday morning. The clue pointed adventure-seekers toward a park.
Not much to go on.
The St. Paul Winter Carnival kicks off Friday.
(WCCO)
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Medallion fever
BY JOHN BREWER
Pioneer Press
A couple's new film, shot over four years, tracks the ups and downs, joys and frostbite of diehard treasure hunters.
Trent Tooley didn't mean to get hooked. Neither did Dan Fleming, Steve Worthman or Jesse Anibas.
Whether it happened in a city park or in an online chat room, all of them have found the allure of the hunt too strong to ignore.
For Tooley, it happened while the New York-based filmmaker was trolling the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt chat rooms on the newspaper's Web site in 1997.
His wife, Jackie Garry, a native of Rochester, Minn., had written a script about the Treasure Hunt after her graduate studies in film at New York University in the early 1990s. The two shopped it around Hollywood in 1995 and '96 but found no takers. That's when Tooley turned to the hunt chat rooms.
"Everyone was posting on the boards between 1997 and 2000," Tooley said.
People were analyzing clues, discussing hunt strategy and throwing out predictions about where the medallion would be found. Tooley thought "this would make a great documentary." So the couple flew to Minnesota and began filming the 2001 hunt. They came back for 2002. And 2003. And 2004.
"This film has seen us through living in three states, getting married and having two kids," Tooley said.
When they come back this year, they're bringing a finished version of the film "No Time for Cold Feet" with them.
To say they're nervous about showing four years' worth of work to an audience that knows more about the hunt than they do is an understatement.
Hunters were initially leery of being filmed for fear of becoming a character in the next "Fargo."
" 'Fargo' haunted us," Garry said.
The filmmakers had to convince many hunters that they weren't making a spoof of the hunt before they would talk.
It is not hard to see why people would be wary, though. Diehard hunters, the ones who schedule their vacations to search for the medallion and forgo sleep and such basics as bathing, can come across as somewhat afflicted.
Take Dan Fleming, for instance. The 47-year-old has been hunting since he was a second-grader in the early 1960s. He has taken time off from work as a sales manager to hunt since 1980.
"The first week consists of lunchtime drives," Fleming said. "As much as I try to keep it out of my head, I can't. That second week, it consumes all of my thinking."
He and a number of other diehards, including his wife, call themselves the Camo Crue. They wear camouflage outfits, they don matching hats, and they can be a little intimidating when they form a line to clear a park of snow.
One hunter is "like a Redwood tree that walks," said Fleming, who, despite years of hunting, has never found the medallion.
"Have I held the medallion? Yes. Have I been standing next to the person who found it? Yes," he said.
The ultimate, according to Fleming, would be digging up the medallion with his buddies.
"It would be like winning the Super Bowl or the World Series," he said. He'd even use the prize money to make himself a bowl-worthy ring.
Fleming tries to explain the hunt's appeal: "I've met doctors, lawyers, insurance people, all walks of life — even those people from Minneapolis — during the hunt. Once you get into it and see what it really is, you're like, 'Holy cow!' "
Steve Worthman of St. Paul has had that "holy cow" feeling. He was so taken by his first hunt in 1989 that he ended up writing "The Treasure Hunter's Guide." The third edition is coming out this year.
"If you like puzzles, you're hooked. Then you're tempted to get in your car and put a shovel in your trunk, which is a weird feeling," Worthman said.
Worthman carries all of the clues from the past two years' hunts in his wallet because he can't bring himself to throw them away.
"When the hunt ends, I'm going back to being myself," the Toro employee said. He added, somewhat facetiously, "I want out. I want to get as far away from here as possible."
His family would probably appreciate such a move. Worthman's 8-year-old son was born at the beginning of the 1997 hunt. He referred to him as "Clue No. 2" during the interview.
"That not only meant I couldn't finish that Treasure Hunt, but he has a birthday every year during the hunt. That poor guy has never had a decent birthday party because of me," Worthman lamented.
For Jesse Anibas, a 38-year-old engineering technician and parent from White Bear Lake, the fascination with the hunt also has led to a book.
After his first hunt in 1989, he started collecting trivia about the hunt dating to its debut in 1952. He planned on posting the information on the Web site of the Cooler Crew, a loose coalition of fanatical hunters who took their name from the newspaper's original Pioneer Planet "Watercooler" chat rooms. Instead, he ended up publishing "The Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt History" this month.
"There were all of these unique, interesting stories about the hunt," Anibas said. "If you told them to people, most wouldn't think they were true."
Like his beginner's luck: During his first hunt, he ended up digging only 15 feet from where the medallion eventually was found.
"That's probably why I'm hooked," he said.
Another Cooler Crew member is Cottage Grove native Jake Ingebrigtson, now a student at St. Cloud State University.
He fits the profile of what filmmaker Tooley calls the "young, hip" element attracted to the yearly hunt: He's 25, in college and maybe knows more about the hunt than most people twice his age.
A fellow Cooler Crew member concedes that Ingebrigtson can come off as a little obnoxious during the hunt but says that if any of their group members finds the medallion, it most likely will be him.
"To be honest, I'm not (the Cooler Crew's) favorite person. I'm a little too intense for them," Ingebrigtson admitted.
For instance, "If somebody were to lay odds in Vegas (of finding the medallion), I think I've got the best odds," he said. "Me and the Camo Crue would be pretty close."
And this year's hunt pits not just Crew against Crue, but old-school against new-school hunters as well.
The old-schoolers, like Fleming, Worthman and Ingebrigtson, tend to start hunting early. They're probably talking through a clue with a digging partner, a newspaper tucked in a coat pocket.
During the first days of each hunt, there are no new-schoolers in cold parks. They're more likely in front of a warm computer checking out a hunt chat room.
David Allison of Plymouth, who goes by the hunting name "Allison Wonderland," fits nicely with the new-schoolers. He started his hunt obsession when he found the online chat rooms in 1999.
He admits he doesn't have the stamina to dig in the cold, so he hosts his own Yahoo.com group to discuss the clues. He even handicaps area parks based on each clue.
To prepare for the 2005 hunt, he plans to test his computer connection to online dictionaries, map programs that show satellite photos of area parks and sites that decipher anagrams.
But his most important hunting tool, he says, is the ability to sort through the chaff that gets posted by other online hunters.
"If you go through the chat after the hunt, somebody always had the right location," Allison said. "The correct information is out there on the Internet, but being able to pick it out is definitely a modern treasure hunting skill."
Can he find the medallion by digging through text instead of snow?
Allison thinks so: "This is the year."
THE MOVIE
Screeningsfor"No Time for Cold Feet,"a documentary about the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt, will be held at 12:30 and 3 p.m. today, as well as Saturday and Feb. 5-6 at the Bell Museum of Natural History, 10 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis.
Tickets are $8 ($5.50 for seniors and children younger than 12). There will be no advance ticket sales. Tickets for the 12:30 p.m. show go on sale at noon; tickets for the 3 p.m. show go on sale about 12:45 p.m.
RESOURCE BOOKS
• "The Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt History." The newly published 128-page book contains information on every treasure hunt from the first one in 1952 (hidden in Highland Park) to last year's (Phalen Park). It includes who found the medallion, all the clues and explanations as printed in the newspaper, and maps showing where each medallion was found.
It's available for $14 at Micawbers, 2238 Carter Ave., St. Paul, or at http://www.wintercarnival.8m.com/. Two dollars from each sale will go to the Pioneer Press' Newspapers in Education program.
• "The Treasure Hunter's Guide."Author Steve Worthman is releasing the third edition of his book, which contains maps and other information about all of St. Paul's city parks. Copies are available for $15 at Micawbers, 2238 Carter Ave., St. Paul or at http://www.treasurehunt.8m.com/.
WEB SITES
Whether you're a novice hunter or an old snow dog, the following sites should be of interest to Pioneer Press treasure hunters:
• http://www.twincities.com/. Clues will be posted on the official Treasure Hunt Web site about 11:30 p.m. each night of the hunt.
• http://coolercrew.com/. A site for discussing the clues. It includes a training guide to being a true medallion hunter, a Treasure Hunt glossary and a list of all previous hiding places.
• http://www.medallionators.com/. The Medallionators, a three-man crew that includes two previous hunt winners, operates the site.
• http://www.notanotherhollywoodfilm.com/. The site of filmmakers Trent Tooley and Jackie Garry contains photos from their documentary film, "No Time for Cold Feet," as well as background information and bios of those featured in the film.
• /. This site for discussing the hunt and clues generally is less crowded than http://coolercrew.com/. Go to member folders and find "Water Cooler—Cooler Crew Refugee Camp." Follow links to discussion.
• http://www.wintercarnival.8m.com/. The "Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt History" author's Web site features history and lore about the hunt.
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One thing I didn't catch was: WHEN was Greg Sax here? I didn't know he'd been back since Conway.
Greg was a BIG help in getting the Cooler Crew started ... IMHO
That was the 2001 hunt. I do kind of remember him being here even though I don't think I ever personally met him.
Greg was a BIG help in getting the Cooler Crew started
I agree
I've never known him but from what I can tell thats a very true statement. Trent has emailed me a few times over the last few weeks and made it clear that he feels Sax will forever be a cornerstone in the Cooler Crew.
[Edited by on Jan 24, 2005 at 01:34am.]
Doing good
Just flippin' through some of the discussion subjects before I hit the hay. It was a trip to see myself being discussed in the Screenings thread. Like I was dead or something. I'll be popping in over the next couple of weeks. Later.
[Edited by on Jan 24, 2005 at 04:23am.]
I don't recall ever meeting you, but I recognized your face in the movie.
Greg was here for the Conway hunt. That's when I first met him.Â
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[Edited by on Jan 24, 2005 at 06:12am.]
That an Ozzy shirt you have on there CM?
Louda
Now that I a have seen it a couple of times, I think I feel safe enough to do a trivia question about the movie. I'm sure this will be easy for people that have seen it, especially multiple times but I think it's kind of funny.
Who's the only person in the entire 2 hour movie to be censored?
nope
Musta been OTS cause I didn't hear him say a single word ;-)
She cusses like a sailor.
Nope and nope, let me clarify...
by censored I mean the person swore in the movie, and the footage was still used but the swear word was silenced out.
AW?
nope and nope, but good guesses. I guess I thought it was easier that this, it's not really all that noticeable I suppose. I'll be back on later today so keep the guesses coming!