Posted on 09/14/2004 10:44:16 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
Keep me posted!!!
Will do. It would be great if a group of us went to this!
I'm shocked they allowed it there! I figured Hollywierd to be a conservative free zone..
Maybe we can get a freerepublic group from Fresno to go to this.
Maybe Fresno freepers could go to this...carpool, etc.
I'm interested, and I will behave.
I had a cameo part in the film...
pinging myself
GOP Filmmaker's Post-'Fahrenheit' Temperature? '41.11'
[Excerpt]
LA Times
9.16.2004
Lionel Chetwynd teams up with Citizens United to counter anti-Bush movie. 'You tell enough lies and the brain starts to die,' he says.
By Elaine Dutka, Times Staff Writer
A conservative grass-roots group and a leading Hollywood Republican are teaming up to deliver a rejoinder to "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush film.
Made over several weeks on a $900,000 budget, "Celsius 41.11" is scheduled to premiere Sept. 28 at a Washington theater. The title of the movie alludes to the temperature at which the brain deteriorates from heat — in this case, from Moore's left-wing rhetoric, said writer-producer Lionel Chetwynd, one of Hollywood's most vocal Republicans.
"You tell enough lies and the brain starts to die," he said Wednesday.
In the film, footage that contrasts the positions of President Bush and Democratic challenger John F. Kerry on various issues is interspersed with interviews with Republican actor-politician Fred Thompson, journalists Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer, film critic Michael Medved and terrorism expert Mansoor Ijaz, among others. No contact was made with the White House, the filmmakers said.
Financial backing for "Celsius 41.11" comes from Citizens United, a Washington-based activist group that claims more than 100,000 politically conservative members nationwide. Negotiations are underway to line up a distributor, said the group's president, Dave Bossie, with hopes for a national theatrical run.
"With only six weeks, start to finish, we don't expect to hit a home run, like Moore," Bossie said. "But we're hoping for a solid single that will educate people and influence the political debate. Though the American people don't care what [outspoken Democrats] Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand think, Republicans need to do more outreach to Hollywood."
Moore — whose "Fahrenheit" has taken in $118.3 million domestically, making it the highest-grossing documentary ever — could not be reached for comment.
Bossie said he came up with the idea for a Republican counterpoint to "Fahrenheit" in July and immediately thought of writer-producer Chetwynd, who is up for an Emmy on Sunday for A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day." He also wrote "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," a Showtime special that depicted Bush's response to the terrorist attacks.
After considering other offers to respond to Moore's movie, Chetwynd agreed to join Bossie's project after he was promised artistic control.
He and his frequent partner, Ted Steinberg, produced and wrote the film, which will have a running time of 80 to 90 minutes. It was directed by Kevin Knoblock, the writer-producer of A&E's "Biography Special: Oscar."
"What was getting to me was Michael Moore's almost preternatural obsession with getting rid of Bush," Chetwynd said.
"We set out to analyze the cause of this deep-seated hatred, the contention that Bush stole Florida, used the Patriot Act to rob people of their civil rights, misled the nation about weapons of mass destruction.
"We're also examining the 'anybody but Bush' rationale, comparing the policies of Bush and Kerry, shining a spotlight on the 'anybody' they found," Chetwynd said.
"Rather than doing a hit piece like Moore, we're taking the high road — to the extent that anyone can in this election."
An announcement about the theatrical run is expected next week. Exhibitors say it's certainly a possibility.
"Everything depends on the quality of the film," said Jerry Pokorski, executive vice president and head film buyer for Pacific Theatres.
"Look at 'The Passion of the Christ' and 'Fahrenheit' … suddenly everyone found room. It can happen very quickly — greed is good, you know." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-celsius16sep16,1,7399038.story?coll=la-news-politics-national
DoctorZin Note: Another interesting film about to be released...
GOP Filmmaker's Post-'Fahrenheit' Temperature? '41.11'
[Excerpt]
LA Times
9.16.2004
A conservative grass-roots group and a leading Hollywood Republican are teaming up to deliver a rejoinder to "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush film.
Made over several weeks on a $900,000 budget....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1215736/posts?page=29#29
I volunteer to star as her leading man/love interest. It's a dirty job...but someone has to do it.
I volunteer to star as her leading man/love interest. It's a dirty job...but someone has to do it.
I went to watch F9/11 movie in Tehran.
Here is the most comprehensive review I've read so far of the movie Michael Moore Hates America:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/leigh200409210824.asp
It sounds great. Can't wait to see it in a theater near me.
What events are people attending?
The cost of these passes and tickets are ridiculous!!! Plus you have to pay for parking!!!
I'll wait for the DVD's. DVD sales help the filmmakers more than shelling out $150 to some lame film festival.
Don't waiste your money on the festival Buy the VIDEOS!
Found it! Ping for later!
I attended this great event with many like-minded folks to see "Micheal Moore Hates America". I was showed and learned a lot startling Moore filmmaking facts:
1. Mr. Moore's hometown, that he built his whole film "Roger and Me" on, is a LIE! He is NOT from the economically depressed Flint, Michigan. He is from a neighboring comfortable "burb" town instead. SHAME!
2. Mr. Moore was shown to be a propogandist [Not a documentarian] and hack unethical film editor when Moore's important "Bowling for Columbine" NRA/Heston speech footage was showed to have clearly "cut and doctored" that footage to misrepresent the NRA and Mr. Heston positions as insensitive to the "student shooting student" event. The reality is quite different. SHAME!
3. Mr. Moore's was also illustrated to be a very sick individual when it was shown that a double hand amputee Iraqui veteran's hospital bed interview film footage for "Farenthiet 911" was got through Moores' lies/misrepresentations told to that veteran.
This veteran's interview footage in "Michael Moore Hates America" was EXTREMELY POWERFUL and moving. He said he was alright and didn't need Moore to speak for him. This hero veteran had a great question that he wanted like to ask Mr. Moore, TODAY, "Mr. Moore, what makes you think that you need to speak for me? I never asked you to do so and I don't need your help at all!" At this point the whole audience erupted in thunderous applause and cheers in support of this heroic man's words.
I was very moved over this veteran's actions, words, unselfish actions. I can only hope that I would be so strong and brave in his circumstances. How do we create, have and deserve men like that????? I am humbled when thinking of that scene!
The was many more important points clearly shown during the screening of this enlighting anti-moore film but I can't go on posting those here because of my presently being so emotionally upset about what I know now and my remembering this outstanding veteran's actions, humility & words. God bless our troops. Be sure to see this real documentary called, "Micheal Moore Hates America".
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