Fahrenheit 9/11
Drawing primarily from our 35mm collection, we are presenting an exquisite spring bouquet of Palme d’or winners to coincide with the can’t-miss Cannes Film Festival.
Winner of the Palme d'or and the FIPRESCI Prize, 2004 Cannes Film Festival
Michael Moore, with a touch of humor, offers his take on the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks and examines their social and political consequences. He does not shy away from condemning the Bush administration’s missteps and showing how it exploited those tragic events.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. His work frequently addresses various social, political, and economic topics. He first became publicly known for his award-winning debut documentary Roger & Me (1989), a scathing look at the downfall of the automotive industry in 1980s Flint and Detroit. Moore followed up and won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine, which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre and the overall gun culture in the United States. He directed and produced Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), a critical look at the early presidency of George W. Bush and the war on terror, which became the highest-grossing documentary of all time at the American box office. The film won the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival and was the subject of intense controversy. He also examined health care in the United States with Sicko (2007) and released his first free film on the Internet the following year with Slacker Uprising (2008). In 2018, he released his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, a documentary about the 2016 United States presidential election and Donald Trump’s first term. His works criticize topics such as globalization, big business, assault weapon ownership, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism overall.
