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Director Samuel Maoz’s hard-hitting Israeli war movie Lebanon won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival today. 
The film went inside a tank to focus on a young Israeli conscript during the 1982 war. “I dedicate this award to the thousands of people all over the world who, like me, come back from war safe and sound,” the director told the audience at the 11-day cinema showcase. Another frontrunner, American director Todd Solondz’s dark comedy Life During Wartime picked up best screenplay.
Two prominent American pictures were shut out of the festival’s official jury awards — Michael Moore’s attack on corporate greed, Capitalism: A Love Story, and The Weinstein Company’s The Road, which John Hillcoat adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel. This will no doubt affect Harvey Weinstein’ release plans for it. Moore’s pic did receive the Leoncino d’oro Award from 26 local youths selected by the festival, but nothing from the official jury — even though he personally came to Venice to premiere his documentary (see trailer here). So did Oliver Stone, whose South Of The Border debuted out of competition. The screening of this indictment of U.S. media’s villification of Huge Chavez (trailer here) prompted the Venezuelan president to walk the red carpet alongside Stone.
Iranian video artist Shirin Neshat won the Silver Lion for best director for Women Without Men, set during Iran’s foreign-backed coup in 1953. British actor Colin Firth won best actor for fashion designer Tom Ford’s debut picture A Single Man based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood. Russian Ksenia Rappoport picked up the best actress award for her part in Giuseppe Capotondi’s Italian competition entry La Doppia Ora. German director Fatih Akin took the special jury prize for the comedy Soul Kitchen.
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Michael Moore is one of the great film producers. He has exposed the idiot right wing for what it is. His film on healthcare Sicko was right on. It is funny how our family values friends on the right never really want to help families… but they love going to war
Oh, really. Could you please explain to us all why you go to jail in Venezula if you have AIDS. And please tell us all why they then starve you to death. If Venezula and Cuba are so great, why aren’t Oliver and Michael living over there getting their free health care? Why live here if they hate it so bad? Why not help his home town get back on his feet? Kid Rock puts his money where his mouth is. What’s wrong with these two fatties?
For you to think that these two are any more then muck on the bottom of my shoe makes you a liberal nut job just like them. It’s very easy to hate capitalism when you’ve made millions from that very venture.
People like you need to study history.
Actually study after study has shown that people who describe themselves as conservatives give to charities, feed the poor, more than people who consider themselves liberal. Hmm!
Moore has demonstrated that P. T. Barnum’s famous adage is as accurate now as it was a hundred and fifty years ago. Anyone who thinks that Moore’s films are exposes is either very naive or a real sucker.
dear pat. why all the name calling ? the democrats have not helped the poor. they keep them in slavery by making them depend on the guvmint. we “right wingers” believe that if you give a man a fish, you own him. if you teach a man to fish, he is free forever. and trust me. we dont like going to war. but we will to keep our freedoms. I’m sure you wish hussine was back in power in iraq,but i’m glad he’s not. Democrats have run our school system for decades and the kids keep getting dumber.more drop outs..think about it. but liberals only feel.they never think, as you have shown us.
Gosh Pat, you know what- we’re poor, I mean dirt poor, ever since we lost our farm and home 10 years ago- we make less than $15000 a year. And you know what-those gov. programs are a joke, a big-waste-of-money joke!We’re over 55, we don’t have health care & I sure don’t want Obama’s healthcare. But you know whose taken care of us- all those extremist, right-wing Christians!Imagine that!The church’s have fed us, paid our bills, taken care of us.Several studies were done that show that those family-value friends, which you accuse of being hypocritical, far out-give to charity all you liberal feel-good idiots. I’m such a mild-mannered person, but you know what- shut-up- stop telling me the govt is what’s good for me. Open your eyes and go investigate the truth rather than being fed on the false pablum from disgusting rich guys like Michael Moore who get rich off of idiots like you who believe his lies
Right on, John. The only thing I’d add is that studies have shown conservatives give more to charity than liberals. Just look at Joe Biden’s tax return for proof.
True- they can also afford it, and often times people give out of guilt, not compassion…of course- they “feel sorry”.
uh… “Pat” didn’t resort to “namecalling” – you must be confused with all of those other posts above hers… fucking idiot… Hers was the only calm, rational, straight up post yet… and you must be one of those “dumb” kids you speak of – Her sentence was grammatically correct – yours contained spelling errors, grammer errors, etc. Go fuck yourself dummy – this is why conservatives will eventually lose. It’s like Joe Wilson saying “He’s under attack” – how does one consider THEMSELVES underattack when it was THEM that did the attacking… bullshit braindead conservatives…
So “idiot right wing” doesn’t count as namecalling?
And while you’re at it, take a mirror to the hypocrisy in your own post, dropping “F” bombs and calling names where none are needed.
The real conservatives will win. Get your helmet now.
J.S. – There is such a thing as education, and another thing called wisdom. I’m not convinced you have much of the former (although I suspect you are still in school – learning nothing), and you clearly have none of the latter. Think about what John actually said. Maybe in another 30 years, you might understand it.
Wow!! What an intelligent comment! Your own command of the english language is amazing. Where did you get that extensive vocabulary? All those great 4 letter words. Your high school english teacher must be proud, as well as your mother. Just another example of the high moral fiber of those who support the chosen one.
Crawl back under the rock you came from, you potty mouthed toad. Don’t come out until you’ve cleaned up your trash mouth and grown a brain. By the way, did you buy all those hyphens in bulk and forget to purchase a period or tow and maybe some other punctuation?
Buy a vowel, toad!
Hey J.S.–I think you forgot to include a few swear words to buttress your brilliant arguments–do you think you could re-submit your statement?
J.S. Wrote:
“uh… “Pat” didn’t resort to “namecalling” – you must be confused with al those other posts abover hers”
Pat Wrote:
“He has exposed the idiot right wing for what it is”
Hmmm…reads like name calling to me.
Pat, your view of ‘great film producers’ is relative. He made a few self-proclaimed documentaries, which in reality, were editorials framing and supporting his political agenda. You call the right wing ‘idiots’, yet most of the people falling into this portion of the populace possess enough intelligence and ambition they don’t want government social services, unlike their their ‘left wing’ comrades. You also berate conservatives for their lack of family values by not supporting government programs that help families. Maybe you should ask yourself “why not?” You forget that most of them go to church, support the church financially, and these churches are a large source of social assistance that operates FAR more efficiently than any program our federal government manages. ‘Right wing’ idiots prefer they know their charity remains in the community and for the large part, is extended to people who deserve it. These same idiots are also primarily the ones who serve in the military and remain committed to defending the freedoms outlined in the constitution.
Pat, take a que from Baldwin, please, by ALL mmeans feel free, to leave this fine land. I am sure that fidel will open his arms to you!
Moore finally took it in the shorts (at least, movie-wize). Good omen for things to come when his movie comes out of the closet. Maybe HE himself will come out of the closet !
Anti-capitalist? That would mean to me that he would let the public watch the movie on a state-owned screen for free, (but mandatory for all Comrades.) Right, Comrade ?
Oh, well. I guess it is back to Minneapolis hookers for Moore.
You can tell all the nut balls from the Drudge Report are on here. You could add up all their IQ’s and it would still be in the single digits
Pat,
Why are you a hater? Think about it…. Michael Moore makes a movie that is anti-capitalist…. sounds like he is against capitalism to me…. but wait he made it so he could rake in the dough…. if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, what do you think? It must be a duck, right?
Oh wait, you are probably one of the guys that thinks our government had something to do with 9/11 too…. do you like living in a America? Because if you don’t like it here you could always leave!
Yeah, Pat, we tried to find your IQ but all we got was zeros. Good luck with all that hopey, changey stuff.
What is it about the pointy-headed, pseudo-intellectual, self-righteous elitism of the leftists that makes them believe they have a monopoly on more than double-digit IQ’s?
Typical CNN, MSNBC kook-aid drinkers, they have been trained to recite the liberal mantra disparaging anyone who has the “nuts” to have an original thought that wasn’t programed into them by their Marxist professors.
Get your own original thoughts, you bunch of limp-wristed losers.
Dear Pat,
I love you. So do many others. Can you please explain why you resort to demagogic personal attacks?
Far be it from me to give any advice. Instead, let me say, were it me I would simply not say anything if I had nothing substantive to say.
Peace.
Right, on Steve!
THIS is the exact type of comment that shows LEFTISTS for what they are…they are ELITISTS who think that their brand of politics and thought automatically make them better than everyone else…and that they should tell all the rest of us how to live…all I hear is the oinking of Mr. Orwell’s pigs, as they sleep in the beds of the royalty of old…
Yes, instead of calling names make your point. Explain in a logical manner WHY you feel as if you do.
When you make posts like yours it kind of makes you look like someone who tows a party line but doesn’t know why they are towing it other than being told how to think.
“You could add up all their IQ’s and it would still be in the single digits.”
Interesting claim. Good substitute for real dialogue. Maybe Pat needs to go watch Sicko or Farenheight 9/11 for the 456th time and remember the glory days.
Ready for 2010 yet Pat. It may hurt just a weee bit.
Have you noticed that liberals quite often state that they are smarter than conservatives and often command us to get educated so that we will think as they do? It is really a common and consistent thread. Well, perhaps if their education included critial thinking, none of these posts on this board would appear at all. If you are a critical thinker, by definition, you can’t be a liberal for the two a mutually exclusive. Liberalism requires a certain suspension realism.
Change “nut balls from the Drudge Report” to “liberal Democrats” and your post will then – and only then – be correct.
What a childish thing to say. Are you afraid others will find the articles you monitor endlessly by using a service like the Drudge Report and see what you seem to hold as if it were “your own special place”? The provider of this site would likely disagree with your attempts to drive off their readers with childish insults don’t you think?
Good god, why do you liberals insist on acting like everyone that does not agree with your “progessive” (but failed) agenda a bad person, uneducated, on and on, and act like the conservatives are a dying-out irrelevant minority? It’s not progressive to shut out the ideas of someone who opposes your own opinions, that’s the exact opposite. How can you progress if you don’t engage in a thoughtful discussion or inform yourself of the world around you, and instead act like you know what you’re talking about when in reality, you were spoon-fed from the liberal media b.s. you watch, like the great filmmaker Michael Moore. Seems that the people who really have an opinion on film don’t think he’s great, they think he’s full of it just like most rational and informed people, of which you obviously are not. It baffles me how liberals can keep holding on to these ideas they have, that are AWFUL and detrimental to our country, even when its clear they are wrong and don’t work. Don’t insult the intelligence of conservatives around you by accusing them of being stupid, when in fact they have a much better grasp on the facts than you. Educate yourself about your country and the opinions you form, that way it will help you not sound like a self-righteous, ignorant, and obnoxious moron. Just a thought.
Pat is absoloutely BRILLIANT!! And he’s AT LEAST as witty as Michael Moore!!
Michael Moore is a complete fat fool. Without capitolism that jerk wouldn’t be where he is today. But because this is a great nation that runs on capitalism and is a great republic he has the right to be the jerk he is. Why don’t you just go away.
You know…no one actually thinks that you’re 10 people, buddy. In the future, if you must do the whole sock puppet thing, it’s best if you don’t do TEN one liner posts in a row, all 1-2 minutes apart.
Also, it’s best if you don’t say stupid things like, “Glad I left Venice days before Stone and Moore arrived.” Which, unless you just live in Venice and left in protest of the filmmakers, means that you paid for a plane ticket to Venice and a festival pass, and then left before seeing any films.
I’m not a huge Moore fan. I have one of his books and I liked his early TV documentary work, but I didn’t bother to watch his last film (Slacker Uprising) and I am only moderately interested in this new one. That said, I am VERY excited for the new Solondz. I loves me some Solondz.
Moore,
What a farb, he’s a total hypocrite………….
If HE’s SO ANTI Capitalism, why’s he rich now?.
Guess he got it from Marxism……………
Terry I commend your use of the word “farb.” Excellent work
Can’t wait for Michael Moore’s new movie, but obviously anyone who has ever made money can’t say anything bad about capitalism, according to the commenters. Of course, I’m sure most of them have no problem telling a woman what to do with her body.
Hope you enjoy being alone. Michael Moore is a capitalist working in the capitalistic film industry. He loves capitalism. He knows that by making really cheap movies he only needs three dim bulbs like you to go to it in order for him to turn a profit. That’s why you will never see him move to Cuba where he would have to share his wealth with lazy people.
and I am sure you have no problem telling me what to do with my money. Don’t cherry pick your freedoms.
What does one thing have to do with another? Moore’s the guy who didn’t want writers on his TV show to join the Writer’s Guild. He’s a complete hypocrite.
“Of course, I’m sure most of them have no problem telling a woman what to do with her body.” Oh they don’t have the power to do that…yet. But wait until health care is government run- sooner or later, conservatives WILL be in charge. Did you progressive thinkers think of that yet? Let’s join together to kill it, no public option, no triggers, no foot in the door.
No buford, people can say and do whatever they want. It’s just that, when one bemoans the evils of money and capitalism while soaking in all the benefits capitalism provides, it kind of rings pretty empty, don’t you think?
Im for Capitalism and pro-choice.
I would agree though that those that are for limited gov’t, capitalism, say they want more freedom/less gov’t, hate Moore, etc… but at the same time are for legislating morality, banning abortion, having the govt promote religion, etc… are hypocrits. And unfortunately that is what conservatives are for today.
Davis,
What do you mean by “legislating morality”? Don’t we already legislate morality by making murder, rape, theft and many other things illegal? Don’t we do that because we think those actions are immoral? That is why many people are against abortion, because they feel that it is immoral (i.e. murder). Of course, that is not everyone’s opinion, but I’m sure there are people out there who don’t think rape, theft, or murder are immoral, either. What makes one group’s opinion of what is moral better than the other’s? If it is okay to abort a fetus, is it okay to kill a one-year-old if he/she is a financial burden on the parents and there is no one willing to adopt?
This is good stuff, Moore and Stone getting sidetracked by their hypocrisy and their own greed. It’s wonderful that so many people are waking up to the bullshit coming out of these Hollywood hustlers and their Marxist/Capitalist pee brains. They kind of give capitalism a bad name…don’t you think?
Dont worry. I have a feeling Moore’s career is pretty much over.
Hey mr moore would you be willing to share some
of your money with me?
I’m sure i need it much more than you do and your
ability to earn money far exceeds mine.
Also will i be able to see your movie for free?
With free popcorn?
Not to worry… Michael Moore’s film and all of Obama’s speeches will soon or eventually be shown in all US public schools near you. Public education is where all of the worlds current (real and make believe) problems begin.
The reason Michael Moore’s movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story”, will fail in the USA?
Consider the irony of the movie’s title and $12.50 for an adult admission, $10 for a bucket of popcorn and $6 for a large Coke.
Capitalism be berry, berry good to Mikey!
Moore’s brand of propaganda not in this year? What will all the idiot hipsters do?
Michael, please leave the country you are trying to corrupt! You and other Hollywood yo-yos have no clue what goes on in the real world. You have lived in your fantasy long enough; now move!
Moore is an opportunistic POS. Fry up another twinkie and move to Cuba, you big, fat bastard.
lmffatao
Well, for the hypocrite Michael Moore…if he thinks capitalism is so bad, how’s come he charges for his movies and makes huge profits???
He has a responsibility to live his philosophy and give his work away.
Typical PROGRESSIVE/LIBERAL disingenuous-ness…everyone ELSE should be controlled, taxed, restricted and suppressed, but not he. Oh no, he is intelligent and experienced more that all others and should be free to make profit, and do as he pleases with no restriction – Constitution be dammed.
Hypocrites Moore and Stone are an embarassment to America. We shouldn’t let them back in the country.
Right on, right on, right on!
Time to tar and feather Michael Moore and Oliver Stone and exile them to Russia where they can live happily ever after.
Michael Moore is proof that a college drop out can get rich too .
Only in ( capitalist ) America .
If you are going to be a hypocrite, you probably don’t want to vilify an ideology that America was built on; making it possible for an unattractive, obese, college dropout to become a millionaire…Only in America!!
If they showed Moore’s movie to those gents at Gitmo, maybe Eric Holder will investigate him for torture.
What a bunch of trophy hunt garbage…
“the story of the first Lebanon war told from inside an Israeli tank”
“about a gay professor mourning the death of his partner”
“four women — a prostitute, an activist, a cosmopolitan woman and a traditional young girl — fight for individual freedom and independence”
*yawn*
Isn’t this supposed to be a movie site? I was hoping to read more about Venice Film Festival. Do you still need the eyeballs Drudge sends to you? Is it worth it, considering what these people do to your site?
So you went looking in the comment block trying to read about the film festival, and now you are denied your peaceful pursuit by blinded Drudge readers?
Liberal creatures must inject a massive lie and overwrought emotion into every argument they try to make.
Reality is not kind to them, after all.
This is great news. This latest Moore film seems to be a rehash of all the others, with the same lame jokes and techniques. Boring and tedious.
The same it true of Stone. Glad he hasn’t been recognized. Does he not realize that Chavez is grossly anti-democratic, has ruthlessly destroyed all his political opponents, shut down opposition media and forced political foes to flee the country? What is WRONG with the American Left?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with the “left” – they live in Hollywood.. land of plastic surgeons, drugs, divorce, consequence free lifestyles, and people who are out of touch with reality. I once read a profound description of L.A.: “Living in L.A. is like being reminded everyday that what you have is never enough” – clearly Moore and Stone feel they don’t have enough, so they have to push the envelope a little farther… until one day they push themselves over a cliff. Looks like they’re falling…
Michael Moore and Oliver Stone are useful idiots for the communists now occupying the White House and running this country.
Michael Moore gets MILLIONS of dollars to make his movies because he’s Michael Moore and everyone knows that a bunch of libs will pay 10 dollars a ticket to go see his movies.
So he comes out with this movie about how evil it is that some people can make millions of dollars because the public recognizes them without ever once stopping to see the irony. His audience could at least try to be honest with itself.
It reminds me of a few years ago, some publishing company put together leatherbound, high grade, special editions of the Communist Manifesto turning a tidy profit off the idiots who believe corporate profits are evil.
I’m continually amused by the vitriol on the part of some hypocritical posters when they assume someone has posted a comment via a link from Drudge. Their bigotry for someone who does not share their viewpoint is reminiscent of German propaganda during the second world war, or the deep south during the 1960′s. (The average poster from Drudge has a single digit IQ. ) Yet they call themselves progressive thinkers. Calling Michael Moore a hypocritical fat pig with no neck is hardly constructive, either.
Moore’s schtick has grown old. His success in the marketplace is waning. It happens to everyone who has capitalized on the misfortunes of others and who thinks the law of diminishing returns doesn’t apply to them. He’s outworn his welcome at the multiplex. Sicko came and went with zero fanfare. A movie about Capitalism will go over as well as watching a filmstrip in grade school. Sorry, Mike, you can’t stay on top forever.