July 25, 2004
MORE GOERING THAN RIEFENSTAHL:
Poles call 9/11 film 'propaganda' (BBC, 7/24/04)
Polish MPs opposed to the war have urged people to see Moore's film Michael Moore's contentious film Fahrenheit 9/11 has opened in Poland, with some film critics likening it to totalitarian propaganda.Gazeta Wyborcza reviewer Jacek Szczerba called the film a "foul pamphlet".
He said it was too biased to be called a documentary and was similar to work by Nazi propaganda director Leni Riefenstahl.
That's hardly fair--Ms Riefenstahl may have used her gifts for evil, but she was a genius at visual story-telling. No one has ever mistaken Michael Moore for a genius. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 25, 2004 5:51 PM
Mr. Judd;
You're quite wrong there - there are plenty of people, some of them senior advisers in a presidential campaign, who have mistken Moore for a genius. If we're allowed to cite foreigners, there's the judges at Cannes.
Amazingly (or perhaps not), 4 of the 9 judges at Cannes were Americans:
http://www.discussanything.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-56598.html
- (Président): Quentin Tarantino, réalisateur (USA)
- Emmanuelle Béart, actrice (France)
- Edwidge Danticat, écrivain (USA)
- Tilda Swinton, actrice (GB)
- Kathleen Turner, actrice (USA)
- Benoît Poelvoorde, acteur-scénariste (Belgique)
- Jerry Schatzberg, réalisateur (USA)
- Tsui Hark, réalisateur (Hong Kong)
- Peter Von Bagh, critique (Finlande)
Danticat is an author not a filmmaker and Beart, though a smokin' hottie, wouldn't seem likely to know much about film.
Posted by: oj at July 25, 2004 9:02 PM