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...those eight-figure 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...
Moore's work here is to show the corruptive influence of the war in Iraq: coarsening some Americans abroad, killing others. The film contains previously unseen footage of U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi detainees last Christmas Eve. Toward the end, Moore returns home to Flint to grieve with the parents of a dead soldier, then goes to Washington in a quixotic attempt to badger members of Congress into volunteering their sons and daughters for military service...
Michael Moore has never had trouble drawing a crowd. His cheerfully angry left-wing books sell millions of copies in the U.S. and around the globe, and his Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine earned $58 million worldwide. Last week the fellow from Flint, Michigan, who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture, was prowling the Riviera in a tuxedo jacket and baggy black trousers, and this time the game he was aiming at was George W. Bush. Cannes was primed for Moore's latest movie Molotov cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted...
...film has its longueurs. The interviews with young blacks and a grieving mother in Moore?s home town of Flint, Michigan, are relevant and poignant, but they lack the propulsive force and homespun indignance of the rest of the film. ?Fahrenheit 9/11? is at its best when it provides talking points for the emerging majority of those opposed to the Iraq incursion. In sum, it?s an appalling, enthralling primer of what Moore sees as the Bush Administration?s crimes and misdemeanors...
...seeing the images as they pass a car are urging lawmakers to curb the road shows. A Tennessee measure banning the display of externally visible, "obscene or patently offensive" video in cars passed the senate last March and is expected to become law on July 1. A councilwoman in Flint, Mich., proposed a similar ordinance last February, but it has been tabled for legal clarification. The Oklahoma statehouse last week passed a "dirty driving" amendment. It was tacked onto a bill that died but will probably be back...