[lit-ideas] Re: Michael Moore at Cannes: Palme d'Or Best Film
- From: "carol kirschenbaum" <cskir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 14:39:48 -0700
Oops. I posted about the censorship deal before reading this Reuters piece
that Andreas posted. Sorry.
Carol
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Michael Moore at Cannes: Palme d'Or Best Film
> CANNES, France (Reuters) - U.S. director Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit
9/11,"
> a savage indictment of President George W. Bush's handling of Iraq and the
> war on terror, has won the top award at the Cannes film festival.
>
> "I have this great hope that things are going to change," said Moore on
> Saturday after tearing into Bush with his emotion-charged documentary in
the
> run-up to November's presidential election.
>
> The Oscar-winning director, overwhelmed by the standing ovation given to
his
> Palme d'Or best film award, said: "I want to make sure if I do nothing
else
> for this year that those who have died in Iraq have not died in vain."
Moore
> was the big winner on a night otherwise dominated by Asian films, which
took
> three top prizes to show they are now a major force in world cinema.
Moore's
> diatribe focuses on how America and the White House reacted to the
September
> 11, 2001, hijacking attacks and traces links between the Bush family and
> prominent Saudis, including the family of Osama bin Laden.
>
> It then switches to the war in Iraq, with graphic footage of Iraqi wounded
> and prisoners being abused by American troops.
>
> "Fahrenheit 9/11" had already whipped up an international media storm
after
> the Walt Disney Co barred its Miramax film unit from releasing such a
> politically polarising work in a U.S. election year. Miramax is
negotiating
> to buy back distribution rights from Disney in the hope of releasing the
> film in the U.S. in July. Two years ago, the director's anti-gun lobby
> documentary "Bowling for Columbine" won a special prize at Cannes and went
> on to gross $120 million (67 million pounds) worldwide and win him an
Oscar.
> Thanking the jury headed by cult director Quentin Tarantino, Moore said:
> "You will ensure that the American people will see this movie." Moore's
win
> capped a politically charged festival, with documentaries and films
> reflecting troubled times and French showbusiness workers staging
> demonstrations and sit-ins to protest against cuts in their welfare
> benefits.
>
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