Moore screened F. 9/11 last night at Cannes? Any reviews on line yet?

[AP]

Or is there a media blackout?

Would people rather talk about the other festival attendee, Ms Kerry?

[Mecil]

1. Posted links to some reviews/opinions

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x51250

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. You should know, AP that the CIA set that up to distract attention

from Moore's film. I mean duh-uh!

[NYCGirl]

3. "Cannes applauds anti-Bush film"

from cnn.com:

CANNES, France -- Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to resounding applause from film critics.

Moore, who is facing an uphill battle to get his movie into U.S. theaters this summer as planned, offers a relentless critique of the Bush administration both before and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"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."

More at:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/17/moore.film/index.html

[Webster Green]

4. "Uphill battle to get his movie into US theaters"?

Sounds like wishful thinking by CNN. This film will be shown and it will be HUGE!

Fuck you, CNN bush licking media whores, your boy is going down!

[JohnyCanuck]

5. There's an AP report at the Toronto Star web site.

CANNES - Michael Moore lit the powder keg he promised at the Cannes Film Festival: His incendiary Fahrenheit 9/11 riled and discomposed audiences today with a relentless critique of the Bush administration in the post-Sept. 11 world.

If Moore can get the movie into U.S. theatres this summer as planned, the title Fahrenheit 9/11 could become a rallying cry for Democratic voters in the fall election between President George W. Bush and opponent John Kerry.

<snip>

The Sept. 11 attacks play out with no images of the planes that destroyed the World Trade Center or damaged the Pentagon. Instead, Moore fades to black and provides only the sounds of the planes crashing into the towers, before fading in again on tearful faces of people watching the devastation and a slow-motion montage of floating ash and debris after the buildings collapsed.

Moore examines Saudi financial ties to the Bush family and presents post-Saddam Iraq as an economic-development zone for American corporations.

Moore's new anti-Bush film ignites Cannes

[cheezus]

6. yeah. where's my bittorrent link?

i'm sure mike wouldn't mind :)

[AP]

9. I mind. Give the guy the money he's due. Show media companies that there

is money to made in telling the truth.

Remember, Moore made this movie with the money and cache he earned from his bestsellers and from bowling for columbine.

Keept this jugernaut rising by spending the money to see the movie.

[cheezus]

10. of course i'll go see it!

I just want to see it now! I want a divx that looks like it was shot through a piece of wax paper!

[underpants]

7. Dude, where's my distributor?

[NYCGirl]

8. And then there's the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/movies/17MOOR.html

"Mr. Moore said he was considering making at least one sequence from the film available to the news media today after he presents it at the Cannes film festival: that of American soldiers laughing and taking pictures as they place hoods over Iraqi detainees, with one of them touching a prisoner's genitals through a blanket.

Mr. Moore and his production team said they also believed the film would get attention for showing that a name excised from one of Mr. Bush's National Guard records was that of an investment counselor for one of Osama bin Laden's brothers, Salem."

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. Here's a news story, not quite a review, but interesting none the less

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

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Short review from the Financial Times

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180567318

He is even better on the old boy club that seemingly links America's Bush dynasty with Saudi Arabia's Bin Ladens via a connective tissue of oil and arms interests.

The scandal of the private-jet evacuation of 24 Bin Laden family members from post-9/11 USA to Saudi Arabia, without the hint of a subpoena or even a polite interrogation, is given telling screen-time. So, more caustically, is Bush's floundering reaction to the whispered news of the World Trade Center and Pentagon strikes themselves while he is visiting a Florida primary school. Intones Moore, "Mr Bush just sat there and continued to read My Pet Goat", and we are invited to read into the nervous flickering eyes a whole recent history of White House incompetence and anti-terror ill-preparedness.

The film's second half is less focused and less forceful. Moore's tone shifts between the powerfully particular and the more flaccidly generic. The "coalition of the willing" is derided with a roll-call that is - in the worst sense - facetiously selective (Palau, Costa Rica and Iceland, but not Britain, Spain and Italy). And the withering early portrait of Bush as a combination of fool, cover-up artist and server of special interests itself withers with overfamiliarity. We cheer the message that America needs a new president. We wish the messenger had showed the same sustained skill and satirical fire-power here as in Bowling for Columbine.