Best Documentary Oscar: Michael Moore Changes Miserable Failure? + ‘Subversive’ Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi in despite house arrest and smuggled movie.
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2016 Obama’s America poster. Barack Obama movie 2016 about to end its run Oct. 6 update: 2016 Obama’s America is on its last legs at the domestic box office. Despite…
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Persepolis controversy: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud animated feature offends – some of – Tunisia’s Fundamentalist Muslims. Persepolis Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims Three days ago…
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The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris’ landmark documentary. (See previous post: “Biggest Oscar Snubs: Non-Nominated Actors from Charles Farrell & Paul Newman to Tom Cruise & Leonardo DiCaprio.”) For better…
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Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate Nov. 8: For an undisclosed amount, in early November 2010 Warner Bros. has announced plans to buy Leavesden Studios, the…
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Michael Moore shooting Bowling for Columbine. Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, Kevin Macdonald’s One Day in September, and Errol Morris’ The Fog of War are among the 12 Oscar-winning short…
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Lebanon, Michael Moore documentary Capitalism: A Love Story and ‘True believers of socialism’ in Toronto, Venice.
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Baghdad High (2007) Movie Review: Documentary focuses on four Iraqi high-school students who use their cameras to show the world who they are.
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Among the 8 controversies linked to Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 are a Disney battle and mysterious late-night Saudi flights.
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El Chupacabra terrifies Big Pharma: How polemical filmmaker Michael Moore has become an urban legend within the American pharmaceutical industry.
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New York Film Critics Awards: Alexander Payne’s California-set road movie Sideways named Best Film. Imelda Staunton and gay noir Bad Education among other winners.
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Alexander Payne’s California-set road movie Sideways was the big winner. Imelda Staunton and Liam Neeson topped the acting categories.
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Jesus Christ and George W. Bush missing link? See past examples of the mystical connection between US presidential elections and Best Picture Oscar nods.
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George W. Bush - one of the orchestrators of the Iraq War and a key figure in Michael Moore’s documentary blockbuster Fahrenheit 9/11 has been chosen as the year’s scariest movie villain.
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Three quotes by U.S. filmmakers: Michael Moore and John Sayles denounce the Iraq War and its enablers, while Oliver Stone denounces Hollywood’s perennial warmongering.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) movie review: Michael Moore documentary incinerates the warmongering George W. Bush White House and members of the eagerly complicit American media.
WikiLeaks Cables bring out Michael Moore Revelations plus Oscar-Winning Star Wars Talent Dies and hairy-chested Adam Sandler Death Hoax.
Michael Jackson Kids and Family plus Mansion Images and Los Angeles Staples Center This Is It movie concert rehearsal.
Critics’ favorites: A crowd-pleasing Wine Country road movie and a polemical political documentary are the top selections this awards season, while Imelda Staunton is the Best Actress fave.
Potential Oscar contenders include weeping camel, Howard Zinn and slain Civil Rights activist. But polemical Iraq War features have been thoroughly bypassed.