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Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wonder-when-we'll-get-to-see-this-movie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Palme d'Or of the Festival de Cannes was presented this year by Charlize Theron to Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore. I don't know if it's the first time this prize is awarded to a documentary, but I guess it's rare enough to be mentioned, especially given the problems this film encounters."

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  1. Re:As Much As I Agree by attonitus · · Score: 5, Interesting
    > He won not because of his movie, but because of his message.

    It's probably not even the message on it's own that won it for him. Rather, Disney's unwillingness to distribute the film with that message.

  2. Message or Money? by joeytsai · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Moore currently doesn't have a US distributor because of the Disney/Miramax situation, but Moore feels so strongly about the the content of Farenheit 911 and that American voters especially need to see the movie before the November election.

    I'm personally not a fan of Michael Moore at all, but I will give Moore a lot of credit if he does what seems to be the best option right now: release the movie online, for free. If he does that, he shows that he isn't being a hypocritical war profiteer - he cares more about people hearing the message than the paycheck.

    The petition to release the movie is here.

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  3. Re:As Much As I Agree by gammelby · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Why did he win? Europeans hate America politics at the moment so they loved this idea of Bush bashing.
    Yes, you are right that lots of Europeans (including me) hate American right wing politics, especially as lead by that Bush thing. But I don't think you are right that winning the Palme d'Or was a European political statement. Actually Moore himself expected such remarks and gave the following comment up front at a press conference after he won the prize, according to NY times:
    "I fully expect the Fox News Channel and other right-wing media to portray this as an award from the French," Mr. Moore said. Only one juror, the actress Emanuelle Beart, is a French citizen.
    Ulrik
  4. Re:Documentary? by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 5, Interesting

    FOX News is a favorite target of liberals.

    Even though I feel CNN is slanted to the left, I normally read CNN.com. However, with all the jokes pouring in about FOX News, I decided to start reading their news articles. I have yet to find a news article or see a news cast from them that appears biased. Can you please locate a biased news article and point it out to me?

    They have biased commentary shows on FOX, no question. The no-spin-zone my ass. But all the NEWS I have seen and read from them has been spot on.

    Now let's talk about bias. When the story broke about the bomb going off that was hooked up to a sarin gas shell (Sarin is a nerve agent, a weapon of mass destruction), for that day and the next, you could find no news story on CNN.com about it. Not one. It was covered on FOX News and MSNBC's websites. Nothing on cnn.com. On the third day, I did manage to find an article that was discussing something else about the war, and at the bottom it mentioned the sarin bomb found.

    I wonder why that is.

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  5. Abu Ghraib and Cannes by Mad+Man · · Score: 5, Interesting
    was Cannes and Abu Ghraib

    But even more than Moore's documentary, I hope more and more images and video keeps coming out of Iraq in regards to the abuse, torture, rape and slaughter of Iraqi citizens, most of whom are guilty of no crime. That more than anything is Bush's legacy, his mark upon the world and truly the images that best define our Fascist Leader and his doctrines.

    InstaPundit.com has been posting links to other prison abuse stories. For some reason, these aren't getting as much attention in the mainstream media ("all Abu Ghraib, all the time").

    Maybe the French, Germans, Arabs, public employees unions, California Attorney General, and their apologists should take note.

    May 22, 2004

    PRISON MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND A DYSFUNCTIONAL CULTURE OF ABUSE in the California prison guards' union.

    posted at 03:53 PM by Glenn Reynolds

    May 21, 2004

    SOMEONE TELL 60 MINUTES about this secret underground prison:

    'It starts off by being stripped naked in front of 10 police officers including two women, gratutious humiliation is used to break you down.' '... worst jail that you can possibly imagine.' 'Not even a hole to go to the bathroom. You have to piss against a wall and you sleep in piss on the concrete floor.' The torture victim demands 'the immediate shutdown of this secret underground prison'. It's not at Abu Ghraib, it's in Marseille, France.

    No doubt Ted Kennedy will be condemning it soon.

    posted at 07:41 PM by Glenn Reynolds

    May 21, 2004

    MORE STORIES OF ARAB PRISONERS BEING ABUSED:

    ARAB prisoners beaten and tortured, innocent bystanders killed by gunfire - another damning human rights report.

    But the difference this time is that the violence is being perpetrated not by coalition forces in Iraq, but by the Palestinian Authority, and the victims are its own people.

    The report, partly funded by the Finnish government, claims Palestinian cities are in a state of near anarchy, with people on the payroll of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA) blamed for 90 per cent of gangland violence.

    It highlights numerous incidents of torture of prisoners and refers to the killing of civilians in gunbattles between Palestinian factions.

    It is another blow for Mr Arafat's organisation, which was recently accused of misusing 134 million of European Union funds. Mr Arafat was accused of signing cheques to people linked with terrorist activity.

    I'm sure Ted Kennedy will have comments.

    posted at 09:55 AM by Glenn Reynolds

    May 18, 2004

    IRAQI EMIGRES ON ABU GHRAIB: This is interesting:

    Hadi Kazwini is an Iraqi engineer who moved to Australia in 1997 and lives in Sydney with his wife and three children. He is amazed at the gullibility of those Australians who have taken the Arab response to the photos at face value.

    This sort of brutality goes on all the time, it is happening now in jails right through the Middle East, he says. But of course there are no photos. This is selective outrage.

    Kazwini believes that the behaviour revealed by the photos is awful and the US soldiers involved should be punished. But he says some of the Iraqi prisoners shown were Saddam's killers and torturers. They have been responsible for far worse violations of human rights than the Americans.

    Where is the outrage about this, he asks. I haven't seen