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Tishala
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08-01-2000

Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fahrenheit 911 Tickets are now available! This is where you can see whether the film will be playing in your area.

Spunky
Member

10-08-2001

Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw a bunch of celebrities saying they were going to the premiere... or were they actually at the premiere... since it seemed that Moore was saying to be proud to see so many celebrities attending... but a clip of the movie showed Mr. Bush's hilarious (or nonsensical) takes on issues and that makes me understand why that Frenchman at Cannes was mad at Moore because according to him the movie will actually favor Mr. Bush's campaign, the opposite of what Moore wants. I tend to agree with the Frenchman... (I had a chuckle listening to Bush), silly or not the guy made me laugh!!

Moondance
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07-30-2000

Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was in a Movie (an Indy Short) and it premiered in the same place at the same time as Fahrenheit 911 last Tuesday... it was CRAZY! We pretended the oooppla was for us LOL but I do wish I could have snuck in to see it, don't like watching myself on screen and I really like his work!

Theowl
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09-28-2000

Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 11:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Moonie, what was the name of your film? and will it be on IFC?

Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 11:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Movie is
UNEMPLOYED:Based on a true story
A short film by Jonathan David Harris

It will be at Sundance (almost sure but will not be confirmed until later) then released so it may be a while until it would be on IFC:-)

Blacksheep
Member

10-18-2003

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 2:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Move America Forward has started a campaign to stop theaters nation-wide from showing F911. If anyone is interested in taking a few minutes to write/call your local theater to support F911 showing, MAF has kindly posted this information (theaters that are planning to show & others on the "possible show list")and also make sure the theaters are aware that there is an organized campaign out by MAF to stop this film.

So much for freedom of speech!

*****

Russo, Marsh, & Rogers is the PR firm to which this website (MAF), calling for people to prevent theaters from running Michael Moore's new movie, was registered until they modified the entry.

Russo Marsh + Rogers, Inc.
770 L Street, #950
Sacramento, CA 95814
Telephone: (916) 441-3734
Fax: (916) 441-6057

Theowl
Member

09-28-2000

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 2:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Moonie!! If you know when it's going to be on, will you let me know please? I've put it on my TIVO wishlist, but I'm not sure if that will work.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw the first television commercial for the movie today.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 6:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Moore Enraged Over 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Rating

Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore has slammed the American censors' decision to give his acclaimed documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 a R rating. The Bowling For Columbine director is now locked in a bitter war of words with the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) who deem the film - which won the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme D'Or prize this year - unsuitable for under 17s to view alone. The MPAA cite the "violent and disturbing images" contained in the film, as well as instances of bad language for their decision - but Fahrenheit 9/11's distributor Lions Gate has blasted the ruling as "totally unjustified". Moore says, "It is sadly very possible that many 15 and 16-year-olds will be asked and recruited to serve in Iraq in the next couple of years. If they are old enough to be recruited and capable of being in combat and risking their lives, they certainly deserve the right to see what is going on in Iraq." Lions Gate and their fellow distributor IFC Entertainment have vowed to overturn the ruling. IFC spokesperson Jonathan Sehring fumes, "IFC has great concern with this decision and will do everything within its power to fight this unjust rating judgment."

LINK scroll down for article

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 8:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Censorship is how we "move America forward"?!?! Crazy. I just emailed the theaters in my area thanking them for booking the film.

Spunky
Member

10-08-2001

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I still think Bush will steal the show with all his comic (or farcical or nonsensical) takes and the real intent of Moore will come to nothing.

Bluebug
Member

01-05-2004

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 1:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I dont understand how these insane people can be found. It's almost as hard to believe that there are people like that in the world.

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 12:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Heated exchange at 'Fahrenheit'? NYDailyNews

Give Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly credit for even attending Monday night's lefty celeb-glutted premiere of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" - even if he walked out of the 110-minute Bush-bashing movie halfway through.

Only last week on his syndicated radio show, O'Reilly likened Moore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels - author of the "Big Lie" theory of political communication.

As O'Reilly explained to his radio audience, "Joseph Goebbels was the minister of propaganda for the Nazi regime and whose very famous quote was, 'If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.'"

So it was a tad awkward when O'Reilly, trying to sneak out of the Ziegfeld Theater and almost at the exit, came jowl to jowl with Moore himself.

Busted!

"Don't you want to stay and watch the whole film?" the director demanded.

A Lowdown spy reports that O'Reilly blushed, shook Moore's hand and muttered something about having to "tape something," and then slunk off into the night.

But "The O'Reilly Factor" tapes in the afternoon, hours before it airs at 8 and 11 p.m. - and well before Monday night's premiere.

Moore - who didn't return Lowdown's call for comment - was apparently skeptical. When his wife, Kathleen Glynn, came inside the theater a moment later, the filmmaker excitedly repeated O'Reilly's alibi in a scoffing tone.

Yesterday, a Fox News spokesman explained: "The movie started 40 minutes late, and Bill had a previous commitment to go to."

The flack added that O'Reilly was simply confirming Moore's booking on his Fox News show next week and that O'Reilly had already asked "Fahrenheit 9/11" producer Harvey Weinstein's office for a screener.

Again, problematic: A source close to the movie says no videotapes are being given out to anyone under any circumstances.

Surely not a little white lie!

Brenda1966
Member

07-03-2002

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ebert has an interesting article up about F911.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-ftr-moore18.html

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
excellent article, IMHO. Thanks for finding it Brenda :-)

Bluebug
Member

01-05-2004

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does anyone know what exactly about Charelton heston Michael Moore was wrong about?

Blacksheep
Member

10-18-2003

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't think it was anything necessarily 'wrong', rather he took things out of context. Moore shows Heston talking about pulling the gun from his dead hands (don't remember exact quote) in regard to gun laws/rights, and made it appear as though Heston said this at the NRA bruhaha after Columbine happened. Anyhow, Heston didn't say that then, it was made earlier and taken out of context. The whole NRA/Columbine piece was manipulated to present the context Moore was shooting for (sorry for the pun).

At least that's my take on it.

Bluebug
Member

01-05-2004

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Where did all the other posts go?

Brenda1966
Member

07-03-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Blue, when the board went down they had to revert to a backup copy and lost a day's worth of posts, or so.

I really wanted to see this movie on opening day tomorrow, but I have to work so it will be next Friday before I get the chance to see it.



Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Blue, the board was down for a couple days and some posts were lost.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'Fahrenheit' turns on box office heat
Michael Moore's anti-Bush film breaks the single-day records at the two New York theaters.

June 24, 2004: 6:46 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" turned on the box office heat in its first day in theaters breaking single-day records at the two New York City theaters where it played.

The movie, which aims a critical eye at President Bush and his prosecution of the war in Iraq, sold $49,000 worth of tickets at the Loew's Village 7 theater, beating the venue's single-day record of $43,435 held by 1997's "Men in Black," according to distributors Lions Gate Films and IFC Films.

At the Lincoln Plaza theater, "Fahrenheit 9/11" took in more than $30,000 to top the $24,013 set by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000.

...

Online ticket service Fandango.com reported Wednesday that "Fahrenheit 9/11" was making up 48 percent of advance ticket sales for the weekend ahead, compared to 11 percent for "Dodgeball" and 9 percent for next week's "Spider-Man 2."

CNN

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have to say, I don't much like all this hype about its box-office. It's being released to about 950 theatres--some ideologues who are not interested in the truth said earlier this week that the number was about 550, but Mr. Moore said it was close to 1000 (Moore is obviously closer, but would lose if this were The Price is Right)--so it's unreasonable to expect receipts like a blockbuster. It won't be Spiderman, Independence Day, or E.T., and I think those stories create that kind of anticipation and nay-sayers can point to its relatively small box-office as a sign of failure, rather than a success in the documentary genre.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
what is even more interesting is if you look the movie up on Moviefone, they say the rating is NC-17 which is way different than an R rating. That will also turn people away. wonder who came up with that idea.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think people who want to see it will see it. And those who don't, won't -- but will still have a lot to say about it.

Zules
Member

08-21-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right you are Yankee. I'm going with a group of friends to see it tomorrow night.