Cannes 2004

2046
Clean
Fahrenheit 911 (despite the publicity stunts)
Old Boy
Shrek 2
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Tropical Malady
House of Flying Daggers

There's also supposed to be a sequel to Ghost in the Shell, but that's out of competition perhaps?

regardless, i'm glad Moore is still making these films, and I'm pretty confident that his own personal sense of fulfillment comes from spreading the message than in $$$$. He's really nothing short of a miracle for the left, an intelligent liberal who can use humor and media to appeal to the masses. God knows that doesn't apply to many of them--Chomsky? Nader? Zinn? Not likely to gain mass appeal or get a crowd laughing.

And when you really get down to it, it's just so redeeming to see a little fat guy making some stiff-suited CEO look like the bumbling jackass scumbag that he is.

i'll bow out now.

is The Motorcycle Diaries the one about Che Guevera?

Anthony, what do you find "questionable?" I can't imagine Moore antics for promotion are any more dubious or tasteless than the bullshit that ad execs for the big money studio flicks pull. And considering how ridiculously right of center the American media and movie industry seem to be heading (Fox News? Passion of Christ?) it's completely necessary.

Moore seems to be simply using the right-wing's most powerful tool--big mouthed, loud flashy simpleton rhetoric--against them. Sure the guy can sound like a pompous windbag sometimes, but have you ever listened to Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reily? At least Moore's tirades are erudite and disciplined to some degree, unlike the idiotic racist & sexist banter that emerges from the likes of the right-wingers.

I want my side to be represented by someone better than the assholes I despise.

Bow to me, for this is surely what has happened.

"I want my side to be represented by someone better than the assholes I despise. "

So do I, Milo, but the simple truth of the matter is that loudmouths and self-promoters are the ones who get heard by the mainstream. the way i look at it is, which is the greater evil--someone using bad tactics to promote an ideology that I believe in, or not having that ideology promoted at all?

I'd disagree with your dichotomy there - there are other ways, and maybe the key isn't making one big play for the culture-at-large but nibbling at the edges and building power (ultimately more effective in the long-run). But given your dichotomy, I'll take the latter. At least that doesn't have the potential to do more harm than good to the ideology/movement, as Moore's Bowling for Columbine stunts did. The only people that appealed to or engaged positively were people who already held its beliefs, it either didn't engage or turned off the rest of the population.

(Possibly a major problem with American left-of-center thinking, rarely looks at the long-run, too focused on the immediate. The arch-conservatives built a movement over decades and look where it's gotten them)

Also surprised that Gatlif won for best director. I HATED Gadjo Dillo and Latcho Drom.

THRILLED about Old Boy, as I wrote HERE. It annoyed me how the French press attacked the film. They were lazy and sloppy reviews, that didn't even attempt to look at the film other than an action film. I've got a review HERE as well.