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Fahrenheit 9/11
2004 film by Michael Moore
This article is about the first film in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit series. For the second film in the series that was released in 2018, see Fahrenheit 11/9.
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American documentary film directed and written by, and starring filmmaker, director, political commentator and activist Michael Moore.[2] The subjects of the film are the presidency of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the media's coverage of the war. In the film, Moore states that American corporate media were cheerleaders for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and did not provide an accurate or objective analysis of the rationale for the war and the resulting casualties there.
The title of the film alludes to Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian view of the future United States, drawing an analogy between the autoignition temperature of paper and the date of the September 11 attacks; one of the film's taglines was "The Temp
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CANNES, France — Two questions involving the duration of events: (1) So how long, exactly, was the standing ovation for Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11“? And (2) Did President Bush actually remain in a Florida classroom, reading from My husdjur Goat, for seven minutes after he was informed of the second attack on the World Trade Center?
Moore’s anti-Bush documentary was received rapturously at its black-tie screening here Monday, and a friend told me the ovation lasted 25 minutes. In my report inom suggested that Cannes ovations, like the estimates of parade crowds in Chicago, have a tendency to be exaggerated. Since inom attended an 8 a.m. press screening, I was not inre the Palais des Festivals to clock it myself.
Now I have another source. The ovation lasted 20 minutes, according to Variety, which may be correct, because its reporters all carry stopwatches to kvitto the running times of movies.
In any event it was “the longest ovation in the history
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Fahrenheit 11/9
2018 film directed by Michael Moore
This article is about the second film in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit series. For the first film in the series that was released in 2004, see Fahrenheit 9/11.
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| Directed by | Michael Moore |
| Written by | Michael Moore |
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| Narrated by | Michael Moore |
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Production | Midwestern Films |
| Distributed by | Briarcliff Entertainment |
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Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4–5 million[2] |
| Box office | $6.7 million[3] |
Fahrenheit 11/9 is a 2018 American documentary by filmmaker Michael Moore about the 2016 United States presidential election and first pr