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MOORE SAYS HIS CAMERA CREWS WERE EMBEDDED IN IRAQ Monday, May 17 2004 
Michael
Moore,
who
reportedly
had
been
editing
his
Fahrenheit
9/11
film
up
to
the
last
moment,
claimed
Sunday
that
he
was
able
to
get
his
crews
embedded
with
American
troops
in
Iraq
"without
them
knowing
that
it
was
Michael
Moore."
Speaking
at
a
news
conference
in
Cannes
on
Sunday,
Moore
once
again
predicted
that
the
film
would
bring
down
President
Bush
--
if
he
is
able
to
secure
a
distributor
before
the
November
election.
He
(more)THINKFILM IN 'FAHRENHEIT 9/11' PICTURE Sunday, May 16 2004 CANNES -- ThinkFilm on Saturday became the latest possible contender to release Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," screening In Competition at Cannes. As the movie mogul siblings are nearing their recently announced deal with Miramax parent Walt Disney Co. to personally buy back the project, multiple sources said ThinkFilm is now in the running to climb aboard. Newmarket Films, Focus Features and Lions Gate are already said to be in the mix. Miramax and (more) |
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Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 received a 20-minute standing ovation when it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday. Thierry Frémaux, the festival's artistic director, told today's (Tuesday) New York Times that it was the longest ovation he had ever witnessed at Cannes. Meanwhile, the Times reported that instead of making a deal with a single distributor, Miramax chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein are attempting to put together a consortium that would ensure the anti-Bush documentary the widest theatrical release possible. Times critic A.O. Scott called Fahrenheit "the best film Mr. Moore has made so far, a powerful and passionate expression of outraged patriotism. ... Is it partisan? Of course. But there are not many important films that haven't been." Desson Thomson in the Washington Post called it "the film to beat" in the festival's competition. "What's remarkable here isn't Moore's political animosity or ticklish wit. It's the well-argued, heartfelt power of his persuasion," Thomson concludes. Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News confessed that she was "in tears" after watching the movie. "As annoying and outrageous as he can be, he has the guts and talent to tie together various aspects of the post-9/11 era in a way that makes you question many things," she wrote. Peter Bradshaw commented in Britain's Guardian newspaper: "It was strident, passionate, sometimes outrageously manipulative and often bafflingly selective in its material, but Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 was a barnstorming anti-war/anti-Bush polemic tossed like an incendiary device into the crowded Cannes festival." However, the Hollywood Reporter commented that the film offers "no debate, no analysis of facts or search for historical context. Moore simply wants to blame one man and his family for the mess we are now in." And Lou Lumenick in the New York Post described the film as an "incredibly superficial and misleading treatment. ... Far from [being] the political hot potato ... Fahrenheit 9/11 is more like a lot of hot air."
