On this day in 2004, Michael Moore’s documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 beats out 18 other films to win the coveted Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It became the first documentary to triumph at Cannes since The Silent World, co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, won the Palme d’Or in 1956.
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The director Quentin Tarantino, president of the Cannes jury, announced the winner in front of an appreciative crowd at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. The previous week, an audience in that same theater gave the film a standing ovation after its screening. It was a surprise win, not least because the Cannes festival had historically shunned documentaries. Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Silent World were two of only three nonfiction films to be allowed in competition in more than five decades.
Moore’s film was a fierce critique of the foreign policy decisions made by the presidential administration of George W. Bush, principally its response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and its decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came under the harshest fire from Moore, who had caused a stir the previous year for his anti-war comments during his acceptance of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine.
Miramax Films, the production company that financed Fahrenheit 9/11, was originally set to distribute the film, until its parent company, Walt Disney, blocked it from doing so. The ensuing controversy reportedly led to the 2005 split between Disney and Miramax founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein. When it was eventually distributed by Lion’s Gate, Fahrenheit 9/11 earned some $119 million at the U.S. box office.
Michael Moore never complains about the Citizens United decision. That’s because he understands that if you can censor the political speech of a corporation like Citizens United, Inc. (which made Hillary the Movie), you can censor the political speech of Dog Eat Dog Films, Inc. – Moore’s production company. And if you can censor those corporations by regulating their output under campaign finance laws, you can censor through regulation corporations that print newspapers or publish books or run websites. A free society can be messy.
Rich “jews” rattling shiny objects to direct your attention.
He could actually have made a decent movie if he was honestly interested in finding out the REAL truth. But even he can’t handle the real truth about 9-11.
Why would anyone, other than Moore’s deluded fan club, consider this non-event to be historically significant? History.com is a joint venture between Hearst and Disney, designed to entertain rather than inform.
On May 22, 1939, just before the outbreak of WW2, Hitler and Mussolini signed the “Pact of Steel” cementing the Fascist alliance:
http://www.thisdayinworldhistory.com/may-22-1939-adolf-hitler-and-benito-mussolini-sign-the-pact-of-steel/