Word: fahrenheit
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...film festival triggers a renewal of faith in film. Optimism surges with the spring; hope springs vernal. This is where the seeds are planted in a garden of film that will bloom for the rest of the year. This is where Pulp Fiction, L.A. Confidential, The Pianist, Mystic River, Fahrenheit 9/11 and many other Oscar winners were first seen. Film is our religion, and Cannes marks the beginning of our liturgical calendar...
...documentary film reached blockbuster proportions last year when Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 set box-office records and the filmmaker appeared on the cover of TIME. A trend that's equally worthy of celebrating is the democratization of the documentary, thanks to digital camcorders and the idealistic urge of citizens to tell a story. As journalists, we at TIME feel a kinship with such filmmakers and decided this year to lend our name and support to the documentaries in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the fast-growing festival, held in downtown Manhattan, screened more...
Even today, that pro-insurgent mentality hasn’t gone away, and—among some prominent Bush-bashers—it is even accompanied by a mendacious pro-Saddam nostalgia. Michael Moore continues to defend his “Fahrenheit 9/11” portrayal of “sovereign” (though internationally sanctioned) pre-war Iraq in which children fly kites and shoppers smile in the sunshine. Popular Democratic bloggers continue posting only the negative stories out of Iraq. And just last week, a spokesperson for Moveon.org again condemned “the senseless number...
...that the best French Burgundies and California Cabernets are losing their terroir. Instead the critics are crying foul over mass-produced wines that hog the grocery-store shelves. A new documentary has poured gasoline on the debate: Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovino is the wine world's Fahrenheit 9/11, an indictment of big corporate wineries that Nossiter claims are killing wine's soul. To such critics, Gallo's international brands are as scary as McDonald's Golden Arches...
Diary, like Passion and Fahrenheit before it, has become emblematic of a larger cultural divide in American society. The latter films exacerbated tensions between red and blue America; Diary has inflamed resentments between black and white...