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...report on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, Richard Corliss provided a good account of its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival [May 31]. But he incorrectly described the flights transporting members of the bin Laden family, who were Saudis, out of the country after 9/11. Corliss wrote that "in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded, two dozen of Osama bin Laden's relatives were flown out of the country without the FBI being allowed to question them." The film does not claim that these flights from the U.S. took place while others were grounded...
...Many 15- and 16-year-olds [could] be asked and recruited to serve in Iraq in the next couple of years ... They certainly deserve the right to see what is going on." Michael Moore, American filmmaker, appealing against an R rating for his antiwar documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 that bars viewers under...
...earners, the largest presence at this French film fete was a fellow from Flint, Mich., who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture. Michael Moore was prowling the Riviera, and this time the game he aimed at was George W. Bush. Bull's-eye! His Fahrenheit 9/11 captured Cannes's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, from a jury headed by Quentin Tarantino. "What have you done?" the winner asked in benign shock. "You just did this to mess with...
...think of a right-wing documentary. Nor was Moore alone in his obsession with the Republican elite. Among the festival screenings were the documentary Bush's Brain (about adviser Karl Rove) and a fact-based drama, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But Fahrenheit 9/11 had all the hot press. And it more than lived up to its advance...
...Fahrenheit 9/11 is necessarily less personal than Bowling for Columbine and lacks its freewheeling gusto. But it's a fascinating collection of talking points in this election year. In Moore, the American left already had its canniest Bush ambusher, its savviest guerrilla entertainer and its most colorful film-festival ambassador. After Cannes, make that "king...