Moore film a Brit hit
Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 broke the British box office record for a documentary in its opening weekend by taking �1.3 million...
Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 broke the British box office record for a documentary in its opening weekend by taking �1.3 million...
"Fahrenheit 9/11" makes no claim to objectivity, fairness or balance. Moore is an advocate, even a propagandist, not a journalist. He picks and chooses facts and images to make his case. There are cheap shots in the film, to be sure. But for all the howls from the defenders of the Bush Administration, it's hard to find an outright falsehood.
…Now, whose fault is this? I’ll tell you: it’s ours. You and me and everyone. We have got to be...
Filmmaker Michael Moore, who criticized U.S. President George W. Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the film Fahrenheit 9-11, called for a similar film on U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
He was the greatest American actor of the last half century, but he squandered his gifts, and his fortune, in a slow-motion car crash of self-indulgence and self-loathing.
A reader writes: "In your articles discussing Michael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' you call it a documentary. I always thought of documentaries as presenting facts objectively without editorializing. While I have enjoyed many of Mr. Moore's films, I don't think they fit the definition of a documentary."
One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and...
MICHAEL MOORE is not coy about his hopes for "Fahrenheit 9/11," his blistering documentary attack on President Bush and the war in Iraq. He wants it to be remembered as the first big-audience, election-year film that helped unseat a president.
A sure-footed Republican and self-described "ardent Bush-Cheney supporter," Alan Wilenski found none of his other right-leaning friends and family willing to go along with his Sunday afternoon plans.
But the Alan Wilenski who stepped out of the Farmingdale Multiplex Cinemas yesterday afternoon, after the 12:40 showing of "Fahrenheit 9/11," was a different man. Hands in pockets, his expression contemplative, he left with more than a new perspective. He left with three more tickets to a later showing of Michael Moore's politically combustible documentary criticizing the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
"It's really given me pause to think about what's really going on," said Wilenski, 50, of Plainview. "There was just too much - too much to discount."
After blistering the box office in its inaugural New York launch, Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" opens nationwide in the United States today with most reviewers giving it high marks as brilliantly provocative but unflinchingly partisan.
While saying Moore's latest work can fairly be classified as propaganda, critics generally praised the film as an artfully rendered critique of U.S. President George W. Bush, his war on terror and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
"Unabashedly partisan, wearing its determination to bring about political change on its sleeve, 'Fahrenheit' can be nit-picked and second-guessed, but it can't be ignored," wrote Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times.