Michael Moore - Cannes applauds anti-Bush film (Globe & Mail) (CNN)

[Mecil]

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040517.wcanne17/BNStory/Entertainment/

Moore talks with Lila Lipscomb of Flint during her daily routine, hanging an American flag in front of her house. He returns later as Lipscomb heart-wrenchingly reads the final letter from her son, Michael Pedersen, killed in action in Iraq.

Her patriotism turned to bitterness against the federal government, Lipscomb journeys to Washington, D.C. Near the end of Fahrenheit 9/11, Lipscomb stands before the White House and says, "I finally have a place to put all my pain and anger."


http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/17/moore.film/

"You see so many movies after they've been hyped to heaven and they turn out to be complete crap, but this is a powerful film," Baz Bamigboye, a film columnist for London's Daily Mail newspaper, told The Associated Press.

"It would be a shame if Americans didn't get to see this movie about important stuff happening in their own backyard."

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Edit to have multiple sources: First believed it was the same article in both places, but there are a few differences.

[Dover]

1. And it's probably not too tough to find an audience with anti-Bush

sentiments in Europe......especially at Cannes! LOL!

[Darth_Kitten]

2. Michael Moore has a new film out.....where have I been..???

Gee whiz..... :shrug:

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. The Daily Mail is right wing

I wouldn't expect the film columnist to be particularly biased one way or the other, but it might be significant that someone from the newspaper says it's powerful and important.

[dArKeR]

4. Michael Moore Ignites A Firestorm - CBS

As promised, Michael Moore lit a powder keg Monday at the Cannes Film Festival: His incendiary "Fahrenheit 9/11" riled and disturbed audiences with a relentless critique of the Bush administration in the post-Sept. 11 world.

If Moore can get the movie into U.S. theaters this summer as planned, the title "Fahrenheit 9/11" could become a rallying cry in the fall election for voters hoping to see Democratic challenger John Kerry defeat President Bush.

"Will it influence the election? I hope it just influences people to leave the theater and become good citizens," Moore said at a news conference Monday. "I'll leave it to others to decide what kind of impact it's going to have on the election."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/17/entertainment/cannes/main617890.shtml

[dArKeR]

5. 'Fahrenheit 9/11' ignites Cannes audiences - MSGOP

CANNES, France - As promised, Michael Moore lit a powder keg Monday at the Cannes Film Festival: His incendiary “Fahrenheit 9/11” riled and disturbed audiences with a relentless critique of the Bush administration in the post-Sept. 11 world.

If Moore can get the movie into U.S. theaters this summer as planned, the title “Fahrenheit 9/11” could become a rallying cry in the fall election for voters hoping to see Democratic challenger John Kerry defeat President Bush.

“Will it influence the election? I hope it just influences people to leave the theater and become good citizens,” Moore said at a news conference Monday. “I’ll leave it to others to decide what kind of impact it’s going to have on the election.”

The movie reiterates other critics’ accusations about the Bush family’s financial connections to Saudi oil interests and the family of Osama bin Laden. Moore charges that the White House was asleep at the wheel before the Sept. 11 attacks, then used fear-mongering of future terrorism to muster support for the Iraq war.

Yet Moore — the provocateur behind the Academy Award-winning “Bowling for Columbine,” which dissected American gun culture — packages his anti-Bush message in a way that provokes both laughs and gasps.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4997805/

[dArKeR]

6. Mecil, thanks for NOT posting Drudge links!

[Mecil]

11. Drudge?!?

*Shivers*

Never going to post Drudge's links to selective spin, unless it's for humors sake:-)

[dArKeR]

7. Moore's new film may light a fire under Bush - IOL

Cannes - American Filmmaker Michael Moore on Sunday said that there had been pressure from the beginning to stop him making his controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

The film focuses on how Americans and the White House responded to the September 11 attacks and traces links between the Bush family and prominent Saudis, including the family of Osama bin Laden.

The documentary, being screened at the Cannes film festival on Monday, has also sparked a war of words over the decision by the Walt Disney to bar its Miramax film unit from releasing it.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1084781160784B214&set_id=1

[Geo55]

9. Moore

"But Moore has no plans to shut up shop just yet. He is planning films "on the Israelis and Palestinians,

and the oil industry and lack of oil we are going to be faced with".

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

That last part , if done well , will scare the bejeezus outta the whole world.

[Bhaisahab]

10. agree. and its abt fcukin time too n/t

[dArKeR]

8. Bush's brain dissected at Cannes movie festival

AFP , CANNES, FRANCE
ADS1 Tuesday, May 18, 2004,Page 16

As the Cannes film festival hit the half-way mark yesterday, the still wide-open race for the Palme d'Or was being fueled by a heavy dose of politics.

While critics were evaluating the crop of competition films seen so far -- and giving their highest marks to two films, one Bosnian and the other French -- much of the attention was being given to contentious issues raised both inside and outside the festival.

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, which was to be screened for the first time later yesterday, was easily the most polemical moment of the entire movie event.

The maverick US director has suggested his documentary, resolutely critical of President George W. Bush, could change the course of the US election in November.

"Obviously, George W. Bush has to be removed from office," Moore said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/05/18/2003156047