by Michael Moore
Dear Friends,
May I take a break from our post-election despair to share with you a little piece of happy/silly/cool news?
"Fahrenheit 9/11" has been nominated by the People’s Choice Awards as the American public’s "Favorite Film of the Year." The five nominees were chosen from a poll of thousands of Americans in mid-to-late November. The other nominees for best film are "Spiderman 2," "The Incredibles," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (with Jim Carrey), and (…)
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People’s Choice Awards Nominates "Fahrenheit 9/11" as "Favorite Film of the Year"
9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Loach pitches in for low-paid cleaners
12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Film-maker lends support to campaign for improving lot of back-up workers at Canary Wharf, but injunction scotches protest march
by Tania Branigan
He has spent his life documenting the struggles of the poor and excluded, in films ranging from Cathy Come Home to last month’s Ae Fond Kiss.
Now Ken Loach is taking on the might of Canary Wharf in a row that mirrors his acclaimed 1998 film Bread and Roses, fighting for the rights of cleaners in the lucrative financial institutions on the (…) -
Learning from "Fahrenheit 9/11"
24 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsby Robert Thompson
We have at last watched this brilliant film, which, as my wife has since said, should be compulsory viewing for every single voter in the U.S.A., and I hope that as many of you as possible have seen it.
Having been made aware by so many of you of the deliberate misinformation spread across the U.S.A. by media subject to the control of the neo-cons, and their failure to tell the public so much of what goes on in the word, we obviously do not know how much was known on (…) -
Defence hot and bothered over Fahrenheit 9/11
27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Tom Allard
The Australian Defence Force stands accused of censorship after it banned the showing of the inflammatory anti-war blockbuster Fahrenheit 9/11 on military bases, despite requests direct to the distributor from serving personnel.
The film’s distributor, Hopscotch, confirmed yesterday that a soldier had approached it for a copy of Michael Moore’s film to show at a military base cinema.
Hopscotch offered it free and the immediate superiors of the soldier - who worked (…)