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Jess Nevins, the annotator to end all annotators (no offense intended, Rob), wrote, prompted by several other intriguing analysis of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a fascinating essay in response, here. Spoilers for both volumes.
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kakodaimon wrote another Londo/G'Kar story?!?
So, the first reviews for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which got a 20-minutes ovation yesterday night in Cannes, are out. Interestingly, the American one is more positive than the British one, though both reviewers are impressed by the emotional power of the film.
(NY Times: It is also the best film Mr. Moore has made so far, a powerful and passionate expression of outraged patriotism, leavened with humor and freighted with sorrow. Yes, I said patriotism, though there will inevitably be those, pointing to the film's enthusiastic reception in France, who will insist that it is the opposite. They should (unlike Disney's board of directors) see it first.
Guardian: It was strident, passionate, sometimes outrageously manipulative and often bafflingly selective in its material, but Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 was a barnstorming anti-war/anti-Bush polemic tossed like an incendiary device into the crowded Cannes festival.)
Meanwhile,caille writes about how Joseph Darby, the American soldier who did, as opposed to Private England, not believe that mistreating prisoners was funny or justifyable by following orders and acted to stop it, gets called a traitor by some. The man doubtlessly doesn't want any more publicity, but otoh I think it's a pity that people like him, who have the courage to follow the dictates of their conscience over group pressure (something which none of us can claim we'd be able to do until we actually are in a situation like that), do not get remembered nearly as well as either spin-created "heroes". Or people mistreating prisoners, for that matter.
Jess Nevins, the annotator to end all annotators (no offense intended, Rob), wrote, prompted by several other intriguing analysis of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a fascinating essay in response, here. Spoilers for both volumes.
Why didn't anyone tell me
kakodaimon wrote another Londo/G'Kar story?!?So, the first reviews for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which got a 20-minutes ovation yesterday night in Cannes, are out. Interestingly, the American one is more positive than the British one, though both reviewers are impressed by the emotional power of the film.
(NY Times: It is also the best film Mr. Moore has made so far, a powerful and passionate expression of outraged patriotism, leavened with humor and freighted with sorrow. Yes, I said patriotism, though there will inevitably be those, pointing to the film's enthusiastic reception in France, who will insist that it is the opposite. They should (unlike Disney's board of directors) see it first.
Guardian: It was strident, passionate, sometimes outrageously manipulative and often bafflingly selective in its material, but Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 was a barnstorming anti-war/anti-Bush polemic tossed like an incendiary device into the crowded Cannes festival.)
Meanwhile,
caille writes about how Joseph Darby, the American soldier who did, as opposed to Private England, not believe that mistreating prisoners was funny or justifyable by following orders and acted to stop it, gets called a traitor by some. The man doubtlessly doesn't want any more publicity, but otoh I think it's a pity that people like him, who have the courage to follow the dictates of their conscience over group pressure (something which none of us can claim we'd be able to do until we actually are in a situation like that), do not get remembered nearly as well as either spin-created "heroes". Or people mistreating prisoners, for that matter.
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Date: 2004-05-18 06:39 am (UTC)Thanks--but I'm reading Martin Gardner's annotated Alice in Wonderland and have to say that I'm a lightweight compared to him....
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Date: 2004-05-18 12:30 pm (UTC)So, the first reviews for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which got a 20-minutes ovation yesterday night in Cannes, are out
I am so much looking forward to seeing it :-)
(In fact more than to the new Star Wars movie, but do not tell anybody ;-)).)
F.
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Date: 2004-05-18 05:32 pm (UTC)By the way, I screamed when I saw that icon. Best. Ever.