Chi Trib buries lead critic's rave review of Fahr/911 in Metro section

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0405180387may18,1,2703037.story?coll=chi-news-hed

I eagerly turned to the Tempo section of today's Chicago Tribune, expecting to find a review of Fahrenheit 911 by the Trib's excellent movie critic, Michael Wilmington.

Instead there's a huge spread on Shrek II, with no mention at all of Moore's film.......NOTHING?

furious, I tossed aside the paper, trying to understand what their motive might be (not really, as it's quite the wingnut rag most of the time--especially their oped pages, with a few exceptions)

anyway, I noticed the second page of the Metro section had a mention of the movie......it caught my eye by accident as I gathered the paper for recycle heaven.

THAT was where they put it. They run coverage of second-tier cultural/pop events there, but NEVER, EVER have I seen a review by their number one film critic, and I'll be VERY surprised if he's ever had anything in that little-read section before. If he has, it's cause I rarely read it, same as most other subscribers

wonder what the editors had in mind

huh?

so here's some snips.......making me very very anxious for it to come out soon.....may have to take a trip up to the Great White North this summer.

.......A scathing look at the Bush administration, before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks, "Fahrenheit" is replete with a radical analysis of the war's true aims, heart-rending footage of those killed and their survivors (American and Iraqi) and typical Moore saucy humor about the failings of the mighty.
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The first part of the film deals with the Florida dispute in the 2000 presidential election, numerous connections among Bush, his family and friends and the bin Laden family and Saudi Arabian ruling elite. It also examines the Bush administration's seeming disinterest in worldwide terrorism or bin Laden before 9/11. "We had a president who was asleep at the wheel," Moore reiterated. What follows 9/11 in the film though, is even more disturbing: a portrayal of a nation in the grip of fear ("I wanted to show how manipulated.") and of a war fought with dubious premises and painful results.

"Fahrenheit" balances scenes of raw anguish (notably with Lila Lipscomb, distraught Flint mother of a dead American soldier) and increasingly surreal looks at Bush and his colleagues, primping for cameras and incessantly repeating their pre-Iraq War litany on "weapons of mass destruction." (The movie though spends relatively little time on the weapons and United Nations battles. "That's old news," Moore said.)

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"I hope to influence people to leave the theater and become good citizens," he said. In response to a question about the movie's possible intended effect on Bush's re-election campaign, he quipped, "You have to get elected, before you get re-elected." "Americans," he said, "once they're given the information, they act accordingly and act from a good place."

amen, Roger

sure hope you're right

didn't want to put more in, but the opening few graphs say that it's Moore's "toughest, gutsiest, FUNNIEST picture yet"

!!!!!!!

how cool is that?

any other reviews?

EDIT

to log onto Tribune site, do this

ID: salon

PASSWORD: tabletalk

permission to sell its distribution rights, which means, lacking a concerted effort by BFEE to shake down/extort/blackmail any prospective distributor, there should be some news on that front pretty soon, cause there's going to be a HUGE market for this one; much bigger than for Bowling.

there are SO many people fed up with these creeps now.

and just WAIT til the gas price ripple effect takes hold.

it's going to make 1979-80 look mild

just wait

It'll be a hot ticket in Europe at least.