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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on September 14, 2009, 03:25:04 PM
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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. ...
link (http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/michael-moore-and-harvey-weinstein-shut-out-at-venice-film-festival-israeli-war-film-lebanon-u-s-director-todd-solondz-win/)
Poor Mikey. :lmao:
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I would love to see this be a financial flop for him.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I would love to see this be a financial flop for him.
There would be some especially-delicious irony in that.
:-)
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But, but, but, but...if his movie fails at the box office, wouldn't that be simply proving his point that capitalism is a failure???? :-)
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But, but, but, but...if his movie fails at the box office, wouldn't that be simply proving his point that capitalism is a failure???? :-)
On the contrary, it would prove that capitalism works. Supply and Demand. :hammer:
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On the contrary, it would prove that capitalism works. Supply and Demand. :hammer:
I should have tagged that with the (DU mode), but I figured most of you would get it anyway.