...MAN?
Posted on 05/21/2004 10:31:57 PM PDT by wagglebee
CANNES - Not everyone in France is in love with Michael Moore.
The controversial documentary filmmaker has been the darling of the Cannes Film Festival so far, but there are those who aren't enamoured with his latest film, Fahrenheit 9/11.
Jean-Luc Godard, the legendary French director who helped to launch the New Wave movement in the 1960s, had harsh words for Moore this week. Godard's latest film, Notre Musique, premiered on Monday, the same day as Fahrenheit 9/11. Later in the week, Godard lashed out at Moore at a press conference, calling him "halfway intelligent."
Godard, who hadn't seen Fahrenheit 9/11, compared it unfavourably to the work of American documentarian Frederick Wiseman. "It's like two different worlds," Godard said.
Moore's film criticizes U.S. President George W. Bush's handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, and also highlights the links between Bush's family and the family of Osama bin Laden. But Godard said Moore's film was an ineffectual piece of work.
"He's not even hurting Bush," Godard said. "He's helping him in an underground way. Bush is either less stupid than he looks or so stupid you can't change him."
Godard went on to say that the Flint, Mich.-born director lacks subtlety. "Moore doesn't distinguish between text and image," Godard argued. "He doesn't know what he's doing."
In the United States, meanwhile, publishing house ReganBooks announced plans this week to release an anti-Moore book called Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man. The book comes from authors Jason Clarke and David T. Hardy, the web agitators who run mooreexposed.com and moorelies.com, sites which are aimed at discrediting Moore's books and movies.
ReganBooks says the new volume presents a "scathing case" against Moore "that will expose the misrepresentations and hypocrisy that have been characteristic of Moore's career."
"Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary."
The book will land on store shelves in July. ReganBooks is the same publisher responsible for the trade paperback version of Moore's own Stupid White Men.
Who Are You
Baba O'Riley
I Can't Explain
Long Live Rock
Behind Blue Eyes
5.15
Punk And The Godfather
Love Reign O'er Me
Eminence Front
You Better You Bet
Real Good Looking Boy
Substitute
Love Ain't For Keeping
Magic Bus
My Generation / The Kids Are Alright / Old Red Wine
Won't Get Fooled Again
Encore
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey / Sparks
See Me Feel Me
Listening To You
Oh, and do you have some more lyrics you can post this morning?
I'm trying to get pumped up to buy a new gitter today. For all we know, I'll walk into Pete on 48th st., and he'll invite me onstage for "Won't Get Fooled Again" (you should see my windmill).
You need to post some jpgs of that windmill. Maybe while wearing a pantsuit.
I like it....I like it......
Please add me to your list while I go get myself a glass of scotch....
Silly or juvenile sayings at the end of Email names or User I.D.'s are like spilled cat litter to be either ignored or stepped over. You rarely see these post scripts anymore, however. The HR magazine I subscribe to says that most companies have banned them. And most email (work and personal) comes from company email systems.
Agreed. Moore's "Roger and Me" was a pretty good jibe at the GM types that started all this build-outside-America-sell-inside-America crap.
The one scathing scene I particularly liked was where some Grosse Pointe executives threw a party and as part of the entertainment, used "living statues". They were employees the execs had just laid off and who were desperate for ANY kind of a job.
I don't think it would hurt anybody's sensitivities to see this one. Unfortunately, after that he became a darling of the lefties, believed their press releases and thereby tanked.
Note to Moore
If you sleep with the french you'll awake with (fill in the blank)
Sign at Second Amendment Sisters rally on Mother's day in Wash DC: MICHAEL MOORE'S FLATULENCE HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN MY GUNS
...MAN?
Please add me to the list.
Howzzat?
A little while ago, I met up with some guys from the Who fans email list who are from out of state and showed them around my neighborhood, specifically the WTC site. So now I'm *really* in a mood to head over to the Garden!
Btw, David Johansen is the opening act tonight.
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