If you remember, it was just a year ago when Michael Moore’s highly controversial film was big news on TV, cable newscasts, radio and TV talk shows and — where the verbal battled raged the loudest — on weblogs.
But now, a year later, a new constroversial film is surfacing at the Cannes Film Festival that seems to be made in the same spirit as Moore’s, with an equally blunt message. And this time American and British policymakers are in the cinematic hotseat.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.