"No Time for Cold Feet" Screenings

more more more... she wants more..

Okay, I'll make you a star when I get to Saint Paul on Friday, camera in hand.

City Pages ran a short review (although we asked them not to review the film since it's not part of a "real run"):
http://www.citypages.com/filmreviews/detail.asp?MID=6403

The Bell has suddenly decided to advertise the film (wrong date however):
http://www.mnfilmarts.org/?venue=2

KARE-11's doing a piece Friday evening on the film, and I'll be live on TPT Almanac Friday night -- not that that matters to hunters because everyone will be out digging.

I really wish I could be in Saint Paul right now.  It's very difficult to sit in an office in NYC while talking to people ripping up Crosby.

You still planning on coming Friday Trent? It should still be around by then.

[Edited by on Jan 26, 2005 at 08:04pm.]

Yeah, I'll be in at 1pm Friday.  I'm hoping that the media and screenings won't interfere too much with my digging.  If it's truly at Crosby, then Mappie and Jake owe me props -- before the hunt started I told them that it would be at Crosby and that it would not go beyond 10 clues.

Good to hear, hopefully there won't be any delays this time around.

I don't know if we've been formally introduced, but I've seen you around and talked to you a few times in the past few years, maybe we can meet one of these times, in the parks or I'm planning on going to one of the showings this weekend.

Trent... The boys will be out hunting with us all next week :)

I just got home and hubby left a city pages for me to read. Very nice capsule review.

Trent... The boys will be out hunting with us all next week :)

"-- before the hunt started I told them that it would be at Crosby and that it would not go beyond 10 clues."

Yeah, but I also have a note from you a while back that you wrote "Duluth and Case"....:)

It'll be good to see you actually hunting! Safety tip: Don't walk through those woods looking down...OUCH!

The Bell has suddenly decided to advertise the film (wrong date however):

Either they fixed it or I'm confused because it looks right to me.

 

so Trent is the cluewriter than
giving Jake and Mappy a heads up ;)

 

Yeah, Scribe, I have an embarrassing history when it comes to noodling.  I was with you in 2001 with McMurray, with Marley in 2002 long after he abandoned Duluth-Case, and I was hangin' out with everyone in Harriet.  I finally got some religion in 2004 and was at Phalen early (that's what happens when you listen to Gwen, Tami and Wanda) -- I'm hoping I learned something from following this hunt for all of these years.

Allison, there is not a screening this Sunday -- that's what's wrong on Bell's website.

Hey, if they want to give you a free screening...hehe

But seriously, I only noticed Saturday. Maybe I missed Sunday.

I'm not digging on Saturday.  I'm going back to see myself on the Big Screen.

City Pages says it was released in 2003.  ???

KK is gay? ;)

Its too cold outside to dig anyway....and kind of a foolish way to spend a Saturday.

[Edited by on Jan 27, 2005 at 04:32pm.]

 

Almanac Highlights - January 28, 2005

No Time for Cold Feet

It's a new documentary on the Saint Paul Winter Carnival Medallion hunt and we have clips for you. Filmmaker Trent Tooley is here to explain how you can see more of this

wacky

film.

??? How about that...wacky.

Hey! Are they dissin us? This is very serious business...we homeless, jobless freaks do have ambition you know!

I'm a freak by choice.

Thank you :)

I'm a little worried.....cuz....I only know one person who's initials are KK.

Klondike Kate? ;-)

Map Guy: I think I should have more screentime. 1/24/05 I'm not digging on Saturday. I'm going back to see myself on the Big Screen. 1/28/05

Trent, I think you've created a monster. I can see a new title and ad campaign starting:

See THE MAP GUY in "THE MAP GUY and No time for anyone else who isn't THE MAP GUY"

[Edited by on Jan 28, 2005 at 11:45am.]

Almanac tonight - don't forget to watch!

Trent - you looked great! 

Hopefully the new tonight and the paper in the morning will get some traffic to the websites. Try and spread some more of the word about the movie that way.

I don't have a printer at home.....

can somebody print up some nice flyers and post them at the park?

TPT Almanac was a good interview Trent.  They even played some Zeppelin before the interview and Beasties after.  Great choices for a great movie.

Hi everyone - this is Jackie. 

I did make lots of edits to the film after seeing it with the audience and after Trent and I discussed some of the constructive feedback.  I was able to trim enough of the parts that I felt were dragging a bit in the "new" version which allowed me to add a bit of extra material you might find interesting including something on metal detectors and Occam's razor -- and more fun bloopers at the end.  HOWEVER, Trent just called me from the hotel room and he found a technical glitch in the new tape I made and we will not be able to screen that one today.  I will have to fix it and it will be ready for next weekend's screenings for sure.  But today's screenings will be the same tape we showed last weekend.  Next weekend will have the new tape with some of the new footage.

Thanks to everyone for your support of the film!  Happy hunting.

i'm really glad that there was a glitch, because i have'nt got to see my self yet i'm going to see the movie tomorrow.

Hold the presses.... I just got a call from Trent and looks like he might have been able to fix the "new" tape after all...  He's going to let me know within the hour so hopefully we can screen the "new and improved" No Time for Cold Feet today!  I'll keep you "posted."

Jackie

Please note there are no screenings this Sunday.  Only this Saturday (today).  See details above or on our site at www.nahf.com

FYI - word from Trent is the new tape is good to go for today.

SHORT MOVIE REVIEW 

No Time for Cold Feet


RELEASED: 2003


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Were it not real, the bizarre subculture surrounding the annual winter treasure hunt in St. Paul, Minnesota, would seem lifted from the imagination of some Midwestern satirist--David Lynch or Garrison Keillor on a good day. As it is, the phenomenon requires only documentary directors to make compelling screen comedy--or, rather, documentary directors who are patient enough to get to know the participants and wry enough to keep the silliness of it all in perspective. Cutting every few seconds, and splicing seemingly endless reams of DV footage shot over a span of years, filmmakers Trent Tooley and Jackie Garry pay homage to the 54-year-old local tradition like any TV news team, but also poke serious fun--and even generate some drama. What emerges is a portrait of a community built on obsession, though the film stops just short of framing the event as crazy: Nothing here will offend the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which sponsors the massive hunt, publishes 12 daily clues, offers the $10,000 reward, and hides the medallion prize somewhere beneath the snow, in one of St. Paul's parks. But the sweetness of the movie never quite overwhelms our impression of the characters' shared mania: We meet snow-diggers who overanalyze clues, outline elaborate conspiracy theories, and mock those more--or less--fanatical than themselves. Really, this could be any insular community, from ice fishermen to punk rockers, except that its pointlessness is far more pointed. (Peter S. Scholtes)

I'm proud to be a Cooler Head.. and proud to be a hunter.

Proud to be on the DVD extras.....oh wait....

Doh....

Is that - ditto?

Wow!  I haven't been referred to as "manic" since I signed up for the SDS in college!  It was an innocent mistake, people.  But I am on an FBI list now.  :o

Nice review from Peter

Trent and Jackie,

I liked the changes.  There was even better flow I thought to this version.  I am anxious to see the DVD and the extras that will be on there!

You mean like all the Kitch and OTS extras? ;-)

I just saw trent going out to the park...was his 1st trip to REALLY start diggin' this year....I've got a good feeling about him....

 

could throw his entire movie into a new setting....at the very end...

IS HIM....saying ...geez...I filmed it for years......showing the world that its HARD to find it......only go out and get it myself...ha

 

Terry V. -- glad you liked the changes.  There was only so much I could do in the 2 days or so I had here between screenings, but I found it so helpful to sit and watch the film 4 times uninterrupted with an audience -- so I was just itching to make some edits when I got home.  I'm sure the film will go through some further transformations before it's finalized.  And as you've heard a million times, the DVD will contain tons of new footage of things that wouldn't fit into the 2-hour cut of the film.  More history, things like how the hunt has changed over the years (2 clues a day versus one clue a day, cellphones & internet, etc.), interviews with former cluewriters, and many other facets of this complex hunt.

 

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported the film thus far.  And please spread the word about the screenings this weekend.  They are the last screenings we have scheduled in this area.

Maybe Trent has already addressed this, but we've had a lot of "complaints" from people that the film is screening in Minneapolis instead of St. Paul.  We of course preferred to screen in St. Paul but as far as we could determine, there was no theater available in St. Paul that could project digital video the way our film required.  Trent and I financed this film ourselves and we are not rich people.  We set up the screenings ourselves, we've basically done everything ourselves and to the best of our ability.  We love the hunt and want people who see the film to love it too. 

Happy hunting everyone! -- Jackie