FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Wins Palm d'or at Cannes!

Michael Moore's new film slamming the Bush administration recieved a 20 minute standing ovation at the Cannes film festival (as record). Not a good sign for Bush. Now we just need to get someone to release it here before the election.

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Updated On: 5/22/04 at 06:57 PM

Well, you will have to. Here is a link to the NYT article.




http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/movies/18CANN.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/movies/18CANN.html>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/movies/18CANN.html

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i kinda doubt that there's ever many republicans at cannes. even less so at a screening of a michael moore film.

on the other hand, auggie, once the gop slime brigade gets done with it, the whole she-bang might backfire. it is after all (regardless of moore's protestations to the contrary) preaching to the choir, and the dems are going to need to teach that tune to more than just the faithful.

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What I find interesting about the standing ovation at the festival is that a majority of the audience are not even American, let alone Republicans. It really illustrates the feeling the rest of the world has towards Bush.

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or, jrb, your choir will vote kerry, most choirs will...damn commie singers. but it's the middle of the roaders you have to get while not pissing off the absolutists so badly that they decide to sit home.

about 2 million americans saw bowling for columbine, if you assume that no one saw it more than once. that was over a 11 month release period. there are 6 months until the election. he's got no distrubitor as of yet. it's not like it's going into multi-plex release.

even if he gets a distribution deal tomorrow and gets it into theatres the next week, how many americans are going to see it before the election?

and sueleen, whenever america does anything the world gets pissed off. hell, the russians still haven't forgiven us cheating irina slutskaya out of the gold. and that's a big, big thing to them.

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jrb, i don't care one way or the other. in fact, i'd rather it got out because i think ti would actually trigger a backlash against moore and the left. i'm speaking not from a partisan point of view, but from a pragmamtic point of view: without a distribution deal and with 6 months before the election, how many people do you honestly think can see the film?

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oh, have you seen it?

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I agree with Papa -- it won't be competing with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, that Perfect Independence Day Storm flick that is stirring up the Gore and Rupert Murdoch bases. But: the Moore movie will never leave the theaters, even if only in an urban handful (Remember how "Capturing the Friedmans?" played all last summer?), and it will be discussed ad nauseum by the media. Michael will appear at every wienie roast in America that has a camera, so look for his face to be ubiquitous. We live in a culture wherein you needn't see a film to glean its message. Look at the number of folks who know a lot about COLUMBINE without seeing that.

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Papa, LOL.

(Don't you want to go up to Ms.Amnanpour and go "kootchy-kootchy-koo!" and see if she musters a giggle? I've tought she was a puppet for years. Or being played by Lily Tomlin.)

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c'mon, jrb, show me an oil man who doesn't have saudi connections.

auggie, i would settle for whacking her upside the back of the head with a 2x4 just to see her eyes dangling on her cheeks...yum!

come to think of it, i'd like to do the same to moore (and that goes back long before 1997).

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Updated On: 5/17/04 at 08:20 PM

it's a personal matter between me and mikey. unfinished business. the vitriol is not related to his movie-making or his clown like speeches (which i contend would go over better if he had a flower that squirted water in his lapel). it's personal.

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So do I, but you don't see me in movies. Well, unless you know where to look.

Frankly, I think Kerry should just continue not speaking. Bush/Rove/Rumsfeld's self-immolation is apparently going to just continue apace.

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I must say I do PLAN on seeing this film...and the fact it got a 20 minute standing O (i know they mean less in todays society but at a movie...) I am intrigued to see this and form my own opinion.