EW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - This brief documentary from Dutch filmmakers Hans Pool and Maaik Krijgsman is like a mini-academic course in photojournalism. Detailing the back stories behind four iconic photographs, all of them World Press Photo contest winners, "Looking for an Icon" will be of great interest to history as well as media buffs. The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Film Forum. The four famed photos under discussion probably are familiar to most viewers. They include the shooting of a Viet Cong guerrilla by a South Vietnamese police chief (1968); the final photo of a slightly ridiculous-looking Salvador Allende, taken during the 1973 coup; the unknown Chinese protester single-handedly facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square (1989); and a moving portrait of a soldier grieving for his dead friend during the first Gulf War (1991). Among those discussing the epochal pics are some of the photographers who shot them, as well as photojournalists, editors, professors and others who provide historical and cultural context.
The four famed photos under discussion probably are familiar to most viewers. They include the shooting of a Viet Cong guerrilla by a South Vietnamese police chief (1968); the final photo of a slightly ridiculous-looking Salvador Allende, taken during the 1973 coup; the unknown Chinese protester single-handedly facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square (1989); and a moving portrait of a soldier grieving for his dead friend during the first Gulf War (1991).
Among those discussing the epochal pics are some of the photographers who shot them, as well as photojournalists, editors, professors and others who provide historical and cultural context.
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BELLAIRE, Michigan (Reuters) - Michael Moore thinks he has made an even-handed movie about health care that should appeal to the civic-mindedness and decency of all Americans. And now he's bracing for the hate mail. The gadfly director, who spoke to reporters at an unusual northern Michigan premiere for his documentary "SiCKO," said he expected the U.S. pharmaceutical and insurance industries to go on the offensive against his call for a sweeping overhaul that would give the United States a national health care system. "I am anticipating the onslaught of attack," Moore said. But he added: "My hope in this film was to reach out across the great divide that exists in this country and say you know, those on the other side, who may disagree with me, can't we find some common ground on this issue? We're all Americans."
And now he's bracing for the hate mail.
The gadfly director, who spoke to reporters at an unusual northern Michigan premiere for his documentary "SiCKO," said he expected the U.S. pharmaceutical and insurance industries to go on the offensive against his call for a sweeping overhaul that would give the United States a national health care system.
"I am anticipating the onslaught of attack," Moore said.
But he added: "My hope in this film was to reach out across the great divide that exists in this country and say you know, those on the other side, who may disagree with me, can't we find some common ground on this issue? We're all Americans."
BELLAIRE, Mich. - Filmmaker Michael Moore gave people in the rural county where he lives an early look at his new film "Sicko" on Saturday, and had some harsh words for critics of the documentary that launched his career. "Manufacturing Dissent," a film that accuses Moore of dishonesty in the making of his politically charged documentaries, alleges that he interviewed then-General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger Smith, the elusive subject of Moore's 1989 debut "Roger & Me," but left the footage on the cutting room floor. "Anybody who says that is a (expletive) liar," Moore told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday after a showing of "Sicko," his take on U.S. medicine, in the northern Michigan village of Bellaire.
"Manufacturing Dissent," a film that accuses Moore of dishonesty in the making of his politically charged documentaries, alleges that he interviewed then-General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger Smith, the elusive subject of Moore's 1989 debut "Roger & Me," but left the footage on the cutting room floor.
"Anybody who says that is a (expletive) liar," Moore told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday after a showing of "Sicko," his take on U.S. medicine, in the northern Michigan village of Bellaire.
Los Angeles - Documentary director Michael Moore's new health care-related film "Sicko," which will be released in theaters by The Weinstein Company on June 29, has been leaked onto peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, according to published reports. The movie is available for download for free on the BitTorrent file-sharing network, and linked to through tracker sites including Sweden's The Pirate Bay. Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Moore placed a copy of the film in Canada, fearing possible confiscation by the U.S. government due to a dispute over a segment filmed during an unauthorized trip to Cuba. Moore has also been previously quoted as saying: "I don't agree with copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour."
The movie is available for download for free on the BitTorrent file-sharing network, and linked to through tracker sites including Sweden's The Pirate Bay.
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Moore placed a copy of the film in Canada, fearing possible confiscation by the U.S. government due to a dispute over a segment filmed during an unauthorized trip to Cuba.
Moore has also been previously quoted as saying: "I don't agree with copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour."
No official word from Michael Moore yet on the current Sicko "leak" on P2P networks AFAIK.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
I really wonder what kind of backlash SiCKO will create, not only against healthcare here, but will Americans abroad be accused of marrying non-Americans just to get out of the country (hey, non-Americans are often accused of marrying Americans solely for greencards-- I don't doubt the accusations can fly the other way)? I'm sure there will be a lot of political hot air for a few weeks afer SiCKO's release, but will there be anything else?
(I get a-- no pun intended-- sick feeling that there won't be. Southern Louisiana and Mississippi are both still messed up after Hurricane Katrina, and look how news about them has been demoted to the occasional update. The collective national outrage died down. I just think that after a few months, we won't see much of anything being done, that we'll go back to listening to politicians throw proposals around, attach riders to bills, and decimate any useful ideas. Half of us will shrug-- eh, politics, what can you do-- while the other half tries to immigrate. There will be a few groups trying to keep universal care visible, but I just don't see anything major happening for a long time.)
while the other half tries to immigrate
I meant emigrate. Ohhh, I need some sleep....
Euh... first reaction: The USA is far more retarded than I thought. Advice for Americans : don't go see the film, if too many of you do, expect a civil war. The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
I know I'm getting nervous-- I need to get a (non-life-threatening, nothing evil) procedure pre-approved, and while it's something that is normally covered by my insurance, the very need for pre-approval just does not make me optimistic. SiCKO's testimonials are not helping!!
