An orgy of hate Bush and hate America at Cannes

[UDawg]

I thought this was an awards show? Oh nooes. It seems that it actually was one big political rally. My favorite part was when that doof was praised with the "courage" to say "don't vote Bush" LMAO! He is in the heart of anti-Americanist culture, the movie coulture. What a brave lad indeed, surrounded by a thousand of fellow Bush and America haters.

Cannes Puts Politics Center-Stage with Bold Choice

Cannes Jury Discusses Decision

By Joelle Diderich
CANNES, France (Reuters) - By giving its top award to controversial anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," the Cannes film festival has broken with its tradition of rewarding obscure art-house films and placed politics in the spotlight.

The jury headed by cult director Quentin Tarantino Sunday passionately defended its choice, saying the film by Michael Moore stood on its own merits and politics played no role.

"I want to make it really clear that if this movie was showing everything that I wanted to see and wanted to believe but it wasn't some of the best film-making of the festival ... I would have driven a stake through its heart," Tarantino told a news conference.

The award was a fitting end to a festival that many had feared would be marred by protests by French show business workers against cuts in their welfare benefits. The protests were mostly peaceful, but the tone remained politically charged.

From the start, U.S. director Moore dominated the event amid feverish speculation over whether "Fahrenheit 9/11" would be seen by audiences in the United States, after the Walt Disney Co said it would not distribute the film.

The film still does not have a U.S. distributor.

Moore further enhanced his status as a cult hero in France, which was the leading opponent of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, by joining the entertainment industry workers in a street protest.

He then won a 10-minute standing ovation for what critics called a partisan but powerful indictment of President Bush's handling of the September 11, 2001, attacks and his war on terror.

Commentators said that Cannes had won back its prestige by handing the Palme d'Or best film award to Moore.

"This seriously restores the image of the Cannes film festival, which sorely needed a boost," the French daily Le Parisien said Sunday.

However, some festival veterans questioned whether a documentary should win out over entries including Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's eagerly awaited "2046."

Tarantino lashed out at a journalist who asked him to explain the cinematographic merits of "Fahrenheit 9/11."
"I think you're coming from a narrow view of what it requires to be a good film. I think you're talking about pretty pictures and a movie doesn't have to be about pretty pictures," he said.

For the first time in its history, the festival gave jury members a chance to talk about their choices.

Tarantino said the group had produced some of the best film criticism he had ever heard and joked that he was considering taking them on the road. "Have jury, will travel," he quipped.

Intellectual British actress Tilda Swinton dispelled rumors that she had clashed with the gregarious Tarantino and praised him for respecting the opinions of others.

"Quentin Tarantino has got an enormous mouth, right, but he's got two enormous ears," she said to general laughter.

I like this quote by the cult geek.

The jury headed by cult director Quentin Tarantino Sunday passionately defended its choice, saying the film by Michael Moore stood on its own merits and politics played no role.

/wipes tears from his eyes. Yeah and I crap roses. LMAO!!!! Can these morAns tell the truth? No they are lieing out arsses just like the movie lies.


Here is the best part of the clips I posted. Here is the judges panel defending their decission. LMAO! This just re-affirms mine and many other peoples opinions that the entertainment community is full of blithering idiots. On one hand they say it isn't a political decission but they then say that this fill is good because of the message it is sending. LMAO!!!! Thanks for lying to us and then turn right around and confirming that you are lying. B-aHAHAHAAAA!!!!1

[UDawg]

Michael Moore and Me
From the May 31, 2004 issue: An encounter with the Cannes man.
by Fred Barnes
05/31/2004, Volume 009, Issue 36


A FEW YEARS AGO Michael Moore, who's now promoting an anti-President Bush movie entitled Fahrenheit 9/11,
announced he'd gotten the goods on me, indeed hung me out to dry on my own words. It was in his first bestselling book,
Stupid White Men. Moore wrote he'd once been "forced" to listen to my comments on a TV chat show, The McLaughlin Group.
I had whined "on and on about the sorry state of American education," Moore said, and wound up by bellowing:
"These kids don't even know what The Iliad and The Odyssey are!"

Moore's interest was piqued, so the next day he said he called me. "Fred," he quoted himself as saying,
"tell me what The Iliad and The Odyssey are." I started "hemming and hawing," Moore wrote. And then I said,
according to Moore: "Well, they're . . . uh . . . you know . . . uh . . . okay, fine, you got me--I don't know what they're about.
Happy now?" He'd smoked me out as a fraud, or maybe worse.

The only problem is none of this is true. It never happened. Moore is a liar. He made it up. It's a fabrication on two levels.
One, I've never met Moore or even talked to him on the phone. And, two, I read both The Iliad and The Odyssey in my first year
at the University of Virginia. Just for the record, I'd learned what they were about even before college. Like everyone else my age, I
got my classical education from the big screen. I saw the Iliad movie called Helen of Troy and while I forget the name of the
Odyssey film, I think it starred Kirk Douglas as Odysseus.

So why didn't I scream bloody murder when the book came out in 2001? I didn't learn about the phony anecdote until it was brought
to my attention by Alan Wolfe, who was reviewing Moore's book for the New Republic. He asked, by email, if the story were true.
I said no, not a word of it, and Wolfe quoted me as saying that. That was enough, I thought. After all, who would take a shrill,
lying lefty like Moore seriously?

More people than I thought. Moore's new movie attacking Bush was given a 20-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.
Moore has described the movie as breaking new ground and revealing new facts, but the accounts by reviewers suggest it merely provides
the standard left-wing, conspiratorial critique of the president. Reviewer Lou Lumenick of the New York Post, who gave Moore's previous
movie Bowling for Columbine four stars, said the anti-Bush film would be news only "if you spent the last three years hiding in a cave
in Afghanistan." Still, I suppose it's not surprising they loved it in France.

In publicizing the movie, Moore has been up to his old dishonest tricks. Just before the screening at Cannes, he charged that Disney
had told him "officially" the day before that it would not distribute Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore said this was an attempt to kill the film.
He indicated a newspaper article had the correct explanation of Disney's decision: "According to today's New York Times,
it might 'endanger' millions of dollars of tax breaks Disney receives from the state of Florida because the film will 'anger'
the governor of Florida, Jeb Bush."

Later, in a CNN interview, Moore admitted he'd learned nearly a year ago that Disney would not distribute the movie. By pretending
he'd just gotten word of this, Moore was involved in a cheap publicity stunt. And it wasn't the New York Times that said, on its own,
that Disney feared losing tax breaks. It was Moore's agent who was quoted as saying that in the Times. Disney denied its president Michael
Eisner had told the agent of any such fear. "We informed both the agency that represented the film and all of our companies that we just
didn't want to be in the middle of a politically oriented film during an election year," Eisner told ABC News.

Where does this leave us? I think it's time for Moore to be held accountable. In Stupid White Men, he has 18 pages of "Notes and Sources,"
but he offers no evidence for the sham interview with me--no date, no transcript. How could he, since the interview never happened?

I have just the person to look into Moore's lies and distortions. Al Franken has taken special interest in public liars, writing a
bestseller called Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Al, the Moore case is now in your court.


Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...4/127ujhuf.asp

Before anyone get their thongs in a wad, of course Barnes is a conervative and yes the Weekly Standard is a conservative paper.

[Riptide]

Yeah, like Franken will do anything about it.

Probably give him a prize or something.

[vampireuk]

What a suprise a anti american movie getting applause in france

[saturnotaku]

As if I needed another reason to despise Tarantino. Yippee.

[vampireuk]

yeah I've always found his movies to be rather sucky myself

[Riptide]

Originally Posted by saturnotaku

As if I needed another reason to despise Tarantino. Yippee.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't find Tarantino to be all that godlike. Some people just worship the guy I swear... it's ridiculous. Quite honestly, I didn't find pulp fiction or kill bill to be anything better than about a C grade movie. Just one man's opinion...

[UDawg]

His movies are trash. I did like Desperado though.

[DiscipleDOC]

I liked from Dusk to Dawn, too.

[potnoodlegirl]

Loooved From Dusk Til Dawn. Liked Kill Bill and hated the rest. Pulp Fiction is a waste of 2 hours of anyone's life.

[Sazar]

pulp fiction was amusing...

quentin didn't say anything untoward...

dun like moore too much... extremist behavior and big mouths don't appeal to me but I'll judge the movie on its merits...

[Saint Lucifer]

I can't believe no one has at least mentioned "Reservoir Dogs." That movie actually gave me a certain apprecation for the song "Stuck In The Middle With You."