Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Michael Moore's Anti-Bush film tops Cannes awards

Little Owl | 22.05.2004 22:35

so Michael Moore's film won at Cannes, I spose we could all start squabbling about Moore's street creds and his blantant milking of the media to promote his film. But I reckon what he has done should be an example to all activists he is playing power brokers at their own game. wether his film is the business or not its' going in the right direction and everyone should jump on the band wagon and start screaming about the dodgy circumstances surrounding 911 if enough shit hits the fan maybe Bushit will get a face full !!
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3739325.stm

Anti-Bush film tops Cannes awards





Moore wants Americans to see the film before the presidential election


Director Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the prestigious Palme d'Or best film award at the Cannes festival.

It was the first documentary to win the top prize since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World in 1956.

more on the link

Little Owl

Comments

Hide the following 9 comments

Damned right

22.05.2004 22:59

Lets hope they all see it.

IMF


eating pretzel

22.05.2004 23:26

[00:07 on indy irc #indymedia chan] irc://irc.indymedia.org/indymedia

<nicovl> CANNES, France (Reuters) - After winning the top prize at Cannes for his anti-Bush documentary, American filmmaker Michael Moore said he hoped the President had not been eating a pretzel when he heard the news.

irc repeater


I take it that you all want Kerry to win then!

22.05.2004 23:43

As much as I welcome Michael Moore's new film, I feel it is likely to fall far too short of exposing the real truth about September 11th. What is more, a defeat for Bush only means an almost certain victory for Kerry (if we are realistic).

So, what difference will that make? It's like Pepsi™ and Coke™, no discernible difference, both will rot your teeth and guts (metaphorically), all sugar and gas. Both these corporate slaves have pledged 'above all else' to serve the Order of Skull and Bones. Both of them are running only because corporate America (and elsewhere) have backed both horses each-way.

Nice media story:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1220758,00.html

More like the truth:  http://www.prisonplanet.com/archive_skull_and_bones.html

Zinfandel


Good liberal Balance

23.05.2004 00:16

Article in the Observer seems pretty good opinionated about politics and cinema:-  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1222496,00.html

randomish selection:-
"Moore, the king-sized millionaire, walking testament to American consumption, is a master of making himself appear the little guy."

"The film, as it turned out, is Moore's strongest since Roger and Me, his debut documentary 15 years ago which examined the damage wrought by General Motors on his home town of Flint. Whereas the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine was hit-and-miss, self-contradictory, and more than a little sanctimonious, Fahrenheit 9/11 seldom loses sight of its target - the Bush administration - or its sense of humour."

"In the past, Moore has been accused of twisting chronology and events to suit his agenda. While neither Bowling for Columbine nor Roger and Me can be accused of major factual errors, both trade on a series of misleading implications."

"More than Moore's wealth, the question of security is perhaps the issue that most threatens his down-to-earth ordinary Joe persona."

"And, statistically, he's right. Currently, there is no more powerful anti-war protester in America, and therefore arguably the world, than Moore."

"I ask him why his old friend and longtime collaborator Ben Hamper... told... that Moore 'didn't treat people well'... Moore, rising to the charge, 'and then he sent me a letter saying that he said that while he was drunk. He has a horrible alcohol problem and I don't really want to talk about it,' he says, going straight on to talk about it"

"Of course, it's nobody's business but Moore's where he sends his child, except he makes it his business to detail the hereditary privilege of his subjects and tends to make his political arguments personal. In Fahrenheit 9/11 one of his stunts is to attempt to get Congressmen to sign their children up for the war in Iraq."

reader


Fat and crass is OK for this dose of painful truth

23.05.2004 05:52

Bush and the Corporate Fascist Economy
Bush and the Corporate Fascist Economy

re..
Article in the Observer seems pretty good opinionated about politics and cinema:-  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1222496,00.html

randomish selection:-
"Moore, the king-sized millionaire, walking testament to American consumption, is a master of making himself appear the little guy."
........................................................................

Yes, sure he is fat and crass, but he is working the edges of the US masses. He needs to be crass, his audience is crass. And they are in denial about how they got themselves a ex-alcoholic drug addict dummy with no brain as a president in a so-called democracy. Moore is making the truth digestible, in small lumps, by black humour and ridicule.
And the USUK blobs who fell for the Faux news type rubbish will get angry too. Moore is brave enough to stand up and risk the twisted insecurity of the gun nutters in the US.
Sure "Bush-lite" as Chomsky has labelled Kerry will be some more of the same to a degree, but not all the same. At least there will be a brain with President Kerry, and the loony PNAC psychopaths somehow re-educated or at least redendered harmless somehow, and soon maybe USUK will get a proper democracy with proportional representation and escape corporate fascism in the future.

Verity Sparks


Palm D'Or for Micheel Moore - ace news

23.05.2004 10:38

This is such good news!

as for the pundits who question Michael's integrity, earnings etc - it was bound to happen, now that he's moved from the sidelines into the mainstream, the American Right is starting to fear him.

The likes of Ann Coulter (right wing 'commentator' and pathological liar) have accused Michael Moore of abandoning the working class and swanning around in a limo. As someone who has bought his books and Bowling for Columbine on DVD, I have no problems with him making big money, it's up to me if I buy his stuff or not, and the guy is entitled to his royalties! What Ann, Rush (Limbaugh) and the other right wing nutters forget to mention is that Michael has asked for suggestions from the public via his website as to the best places to donate his tax cut - www.michaelmoore.com

Looking forward to seeing the latest film - I hope the American public get to see it too.

Annie
mail e-mail: antoinetteearl@hotmail.com


New YanKKKee Blockbuster cLASSIC wAR fILM

23.05.2004 13:58

New film in the glory glory what a wonderfull war traditions of Hollywood ONE WEDDING AND FORTY FUNERALS compliments of the A10 tractor busters who earnt their spurs in kosovo bombing tractors and trailers full of refugees. Then onto Iraq for an orgy of rape n'pillage and child abuse.
Filmed on location in Rafah by Israeli director Norman BurnemaliveStein and his trusty mossad camera crew .

T.D ARSE


September 11th video evidence of missile.

23.05.2004 19:45

In its own posting elsewhere:

New video evidence archived at the LA Times substantiates missile claim

This latest video evidence brings the total number of independent clips showing the impact of the second plane to hit the World Trade Centre to six. Each one depicts what appears to be the launch of a missile a fraction of a second before impact.

This video can be seen on 'commemorative 911' DVDs and videos which are available everywhere.

The repercussions of this evidence could be incalculable and it is clearly being taken very seriously by government agencies in the US and UK (including the CIA and MI5) as well as elsewhere (as is illustrated by the WHOIS IP site log).

 http://wwwletsroll911.org

 http://www.empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/articles/contributed/008/index.html

Oh, and for anybody that thinks this is all the work of a few sad, lonely conspiracy theorists, you might like to read 'The New Pearl Harbor' by Professor David Ray Griffin:

 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844370364/026-2790311-0542024

The mainstream media have completely ignored the claims that there was much more involvement by US authorities than mere incompetence and scoff at any such suggestion. Channel 5's recent 'documentary' piss take on the top ten conspiracy theories didn't even mention it, yet any Google search (their research tool!) will reveal that there are about 555,000 web pages which mention it - compared to the 361,000 of JFK which was second in their top ten to mind control (which had only 70,700). Indeed, the programmes presenter, Daniel Abineri, told me himself that there was no waty that Channel 5 would even mention September 11th.

Zinfandel


September 11th video evidence of missile.

23.05.2004 21:15

Posted separately elsewhere

New video evidence archived at the LA Times substantiates missile claim.

This latest video evidence brings the total number of independent clips showing the impact of the second plane to hit the World Trade Centre to six. Each one depicts what appears to be the launch of a missile a fraction of a second before impact.

This video can be seen on 'commemorative 911' DVDs and videos which are available everywhere.

The repercussions of this evidence could be incalculable and it is clearly being taken very seriously by government agencies in the US and UK (including the CIA and MI5) as well as elsewhere (as is illustrated by the WHOIS IP site log).

 http://www.letsroll911.org

 http://www.empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/articles/contributed/008/index.html

Oh, and for anybody that thinks this is all the work of a few sad, lonely conspiracy theorists, you might like to read 'The New Pearl Harbor' by Professor David Ray Griffin:

 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844370364/026-2790311-0542024

The mainstream media have completely ignored the claims that there was much more involvement by US authorities than mere incompetence and scoff at any such suggestion. Channel 5's recent 'documentary' piss take on the top ten conspiracy theories didn't even mention it, yet any Google search (their research tool!) will reveal that there are about 555,000 web pages which mention it - compared to the 361,000 of JFK which was second in their top ten to mind control (which had only 70,700). Indeed, the programmes presenter, Daniel Abineri, told me himself that there was no waty that Channel 5 would even mention September 11th.

Zinfandel
- Homepage: http://www.letsroll911.org


Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech