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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- Beyond Moore - Two New Anti-War Films(1) Atlanta Constitution Journal June 23, 2004 Film shows Cleland's cause Disabled vet says Iraq war a tragic error By DAVID HO NEW YORK - Max Cleland never wanted to come full circle. But for the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, his recent visits to see American soldiers wounded in Iraq have the feel of history repeating itself. "This is Vietnam revisited in every way," Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in a 1968 grenade explosion, said in an interview Wednesday. "I thought I'd never see it again in my lifetime. I thought we'd learned some basic lessons." Cleland visits troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, the same place where he healed more than three decades ago. He calls the soldiers "the young Max Clelands." His interactions with them and the families of those killed form the core of the new documentary film, "Strong at the Broken Places." His story of war, devastating injury, recovery and a life in politics is woven throughout the nearly hourlong film. "The human loss of this misguided policy in Iraq is excruciating," said Cleland, who is campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Vietnam veteran Sen. John Kerry. "It's the untold message of war, and one of the reasons I wanted to be involved in telling it was to make sure that people understand the costs involved." The filmmakers are negotiating with cable networks to broadcast the documentary. Richard Mahoney, the film's producer and director and a former Arizona secretary of state, said he began filming in May 2003. In October, he approached Cleland, whose visits to Walter Reed and life experience transformed the documentary. "He's a bridge between Vietnam and Iraq," Mahoney said. "The bridge between getting blown apart and putting your life back together in a totally new way because you've got to." The film paints a parallel between wars past and present during Cleland's conversations with Pvt. Alan Lewis, 24. Lewis' Humvee hit an antitank mine in Iraq on July 16, 2003. He lost his legs. Cleland and Lewis talk in the film as they sit across from each other, the old soldier in his wheelchair and the young one stretching out new prosthetic legs. Cleland also visits the family of Spc. Jamaal Addison, the first soldier from Georgia killed in Iraq. "I'm hoping that this film sheds light on the fact that there were a lot of assumptions and misconceptions regarding the war that led us into this hell," said Addison's father, Kevin, a postal employee from Decatur. "It's gotten worse over time, and there's no sign of it getting better." http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0604/24cleland.htm (2) Reuters June 23, 2004 French Filmmaker Takes Own Stab at Bush By Shiraz Sidhva PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - When "Fahrenheit 9/11" was selected for the Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), another documentary about George W. Bush was waiting in the wings in case Michael Moore (news)'s film wasn't ready in time. "The organizers were keen to include our film in the Official Selection but felt it was politically incorrect to have two anti-Bush documentaries at Cannes," says Jean-Francois Lepetit, whose Flach Film produced "Le Monde Selon Bush" (The World According to Bush). Directed by seasoned documentary maker William Karel, the 90-minute film could scarcely be more different to Moore's Palme d'Or winner. Karel's style is sober, eschewing humor and stunts in favor of heavyweight interviews. "Le Monde" is a scathing attack on Bush's first 1,000 days in power, and chronicles the first family's alleged links with the oil and arms industries. Originally made for French public broadcaster France 2, the documentary premiered on television last Friday, but in an unusual move opened theatrically in France on Wednesday. "We wanted to give the film a wider audience," Lepetit explains. Inspired by journalist-author Eric Laurent's two books on the Bush administration, "Le Monde" is the fifth film by Karel examining American political power. The Tunisian-born Swiss director insists he "adores" America, but chose to make the film because "it's a true story stranger than fiction." Spending more than eight months battling "the veil of secrecy" surrounding those in office, Karel managed 26 detailed interviews, with personalities including Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), neo-conservative Richard Perle, former CIA (news - web sites) directors James Woosley and David Kay, writer Norman Mailer, academics and journalists. "I was amazed how willing some people were to be interviewed, straight after they had left government and were no longer bound by secrecy laws," Karel says. The EUR500,000 ($605,000) film covers many topics, including how the "Christian right Israeli lobby" has influenced U.S. policy in the Middle East and how the Sept. 11 attack gave a "clueless" Bush his raison d'etre -- the "crusade" against terrorism, the "false pretext" under which the second war on Iraq (news - web sites) was waged, and the "big lie" linking Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) to Sept. 11. The film illustrates how George H.W. Bush, first as vice president and then as president from 1988 to 1992, armed and financed Saddam Hussein. The Bush family's alleged ties to the Bin Laden clan and Saudi Arabia are also examined. Karel insists his film is not a French diatribe against America but rather a gathering of eyewitness accounts from Americans who lived through the times. "To think President Richard Nixon was impeached because of three tapes!" Karel exclaims. He hopes the film will be seen in the United States. "None of my films have made it to the U.S., but I'm hopeful that this one will," he says. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040623/film_nm/film_france_dc_1 _______________________________________________________ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. 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