Posted on 07/08/2005 12:08:30 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A film festival being organized by left-wing director Michael Moore has some right-wing competition.
A local activist and a conservative group from Texas said Wednesday they were putting together an alternative to the Traverse City Film Festival, which Moore and residents of this Lake Michigan community are organizing.
"People are fed up and tired with the extreme left-wing radical fringe — America haters, family haters, Christian haters," said Genie Aldrich, a resident of nearby Suttons Bay and founder of the Traverse Bay Freedom Film Festival. She tried unsuccessfully last month to dissuade the city commission from letting Moore's group show films in a municipal waterfront park.
"I like it when Republicans take ideas of mine," said Moore, a Flint, Mich. native who has residences in neighboring Antrim County and New York City. "I have a few more where those came from, if they'd like to sit down and talk."
Aldrich said the alternative festival would feature a dozen movies, including favorites such as "Top Gun" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark." The others will be independent, politically oriented productions. Among them: "In the Face of Evil," a tribute to Ronald Reagan; "Confronting Iraq," a defense of the war in Iraq sponsored by the conservative group Accuracy in Media; and "Michael Moore Hates America."
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Did "Sands Of Iwo Jima" make the cut?
No, but the Jabba the Hutt chronicles did as well as the new documentary--Bowling for Concubines.
That's great. Because I've been thinking about eating 5 dozen donuts a day until I weigh 400 pounds.
Michael Moore would make a great desk seargant on Police Academy.
In the Face of Evil" is one of the best films I have ever seen. If you have not seen it will change your life. You will shout out words of victory and joy, and you will be moved to tears. It's a real life, engaging triumph of words and picture.
I thought we just looked at one on one of these pictures. OH drat, I'll just have to see the real film. Wait a minute, I have a face only a mother could love. I'll just look in the mirror.....
I saw it last year at the LIBERTY FILM FESTIVAL in West Hollywood. It was the best film there and one of the great films I have seen.
"fat and stupid is no way to go through life"
"fat and stupid is no way to go through life"
Awww!! You mean I have to change my lifestyle??? No fair.
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