Word: fahrenheit
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...Beginning with Bowling for Columbine, his last three acerbic docu-comedies have premiered at Cannes, and in 2004 his Fahrenheit 9/11 copped the Palme d'Or on its way to a $222 million worldwide gross-unprecedented for a nonfiction film. Now, having sermonized on the problem of American gun violence and the occupation of Iraq, Moore takes his hatchet to the ailing U.S. health-care system in Sicko...
...President; he's a lame duck who needs medical attention, and fortunately he can afford it. (And if he couldn't, his bills would be paid for by the people, as is the health care of all Senators and Congressmen.) Besides, Michael Moore had his instructive Bush-bashing in Fahrenheit 9/11, the highest-grossing documentary of all time, earning $119 million at the domestic box office and lots more overseas...
...Moore isn't the first to say that the health care system is sick - that it's riddled with inequities and iniquities. He's never the first to address a gut issue, whether it's corporate greed (Roger & Me), American violence (Bowling for Columbine), the politics of terror (Fahrenheit 9/11). But he's the one who does it the noisiest, with the highest entertainment value, mixing muckraking with showmanship, Ida Tarbell with P.T. Barnum. His new movie - which has its world premiere tonight in Cannes, and opens in North America June 29th - fits honorably in that tradition. As both harangue...
...Michael Moore: I offered $10,000 to anybody who could find a single fact in Fahrenheit 9/11 that was wrong...
...Michael Moore: In Bowling for Columbine, we used the videotape in the cafeteria, but I?m not going to show students being killed. In Fahrenheit 9/11, I felt that the media had shown the images of the planes flying into the towers more than enough, so the screen goes black for over a minute during the attack. So I?m always thinking about this sort of thing...