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That looks like Bob but that’s not Bob.  That’s Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan during the Blonde on Blonde years from the upcoming film I’m Not There.

Other actors playing Bob in this film are:  Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw.  David Cross shows up in the film as Allen Ginsberg.

Each actor plays Bob at some time in his life from his early folk-singer days to his current “never ending tour” days.

To learn more about this film project, go here and here.

Watch the trailer here.

Michael Moore goes on CNN to discuss his new movie Sicko. In the video below, CNN attempts to marginalize him with a lead in story by Sanjay Gupta.

Michael Moore takes the bait, but quickly changes tactics and instead uses his time to corner Wolf on Wolf & CNN’s ongoing support of the war in Iraq and demands a public apology for the lies leading up to the war.

I love it.
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Michael Moore sets the CNN record straight by backing up his facts on his website:

CNN: “Moore asserts that the American health care system spends $7,000 per person on health. Cuba spends $25 dollars per person. Not true. But not too far off. The United States spends $6,096 per person, versus $229 per person in Cuba.”

THE TRUTH:

According to our own government – the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Health Expenditures Projections – the United States will spend $7,092 per capita on health in 2006 and $7,498 in 2007. (Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures, National Health Expenditures Projections 2006-2016. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/proj2006.pdf)
As for Cuba – Dr. Gupta and CNN need to watch ‘SiCKO’ first before commenting on it. ‘SiCKO’ says Cuba spends $251 per person on health care, not $25, as Gupta reports. And the BBC reports that Cuba’s per capita health expenditure is… $251! (Keeping Cuba Healthy, BBC, Aug. 1 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/5232628.stm )
As Gupta points out, the World Health Organization does calculate Cuba’s per capita health expenditure at $229 per person – a lot closer to $251 than $25.

The interview ends with Wolf talking to Lou Dobbs who says Michael Moore “is more of a left wing promoter than Hugo Chavez”.

I’d take that as a HUGE compliment. Thanks Lou. You dick.

UPDATE 07/10/07:

Set your Tivo.

This just in from michaelmoore.com:

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Today, Michael Moore will be on CNN again for Part Two with Wolf Blitzer, (Did you see Part One? And our response?), a new appearance on Larry King Live with Dr. Sanjay Gupta (appearing, we assume, to apologize for his factual errors), and a rerun of Mike’s appearance on Jon Stewart from 13 days ago.

Those of us who maintain Michael’s website have started a truth squad. Watch for our daily reports on how the media lies, distorts and carries the water for Big Pharma and Big Insurance.

We’ll leave you with this analysis of how the mainstream media deals with Michael Moore.

Or more like yesteryear… 50 years ago in New Haven Connecticut where they are currently filming the new Indiana Jones movie due out in 2008.

A small part of the city was dressed up to look as it would fifty years ago, complete with authentic vintage guitars in the shop windows.

Check out the photos here.

There are few films that affected me the way this one did. 

When I think of what makes a great film, I think of the first movie I ever saw that took me away to another place for a couple hours and presented ideas and themes that have stuck with me for years.  That first experience was one of going up river.  Way up river… Yes, it was Apocalypse Now.

The next one that affected me like that was Brazil, and after that, Ran.

Today it was Pan’s Labyrinth.  It is a very thought provoking movie that, like Brazil, mixes reality with fantasy.  Brazil was set in the future and Pan is set in the past, and, like Brazil, Pan’s Labyrinth is about a struggle against fascism.  It’s also the saddest film I’ve ever seen.

The movie juxtaposes a real-life struggle against Franco’s fascist government in 1944 Spain with the fantasy world of a young girl staying with her mother at farmhouse used as a military outpost.  Her mother recently married the captain of this base and is carrying his child. 

Like Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now, Captain Vidal is capable of killing with “extreme prejudice.”  But unlike Willard, Vidal totally lacks any form of humanity.  He is a real monster.  Life isn’t so good for the young girl in this movie, so she dreams up a fantasy world where she will live as a princess with her real father and future brother.

I’m no film critic so I won’t review it any more than that.  I’ll just recommend that you see it—soon.

After I left the theater I walked about half a block to where there were two college-aged women tending a political kiosk on the sidewalk.  I noticed a red-and-black book on the table with a picture of Cheney on the cover.  The title of the book was Children of Satan II, The Beast Men.  I had to stop.

I asked what they were all about, and one of the women started telling me how America is falling down, how we don’t seem to produce anything in this country anymore, and how so many bad things have happened.  She then asked me if I had seen anything really disturbing in the last thirty years.  I had to laugh…  “Yes,” I told her.  I just saw Pan’s Labyrinth.  She was unfamiliar with the film even though it was showing in a theater just twenty yards from where she was standing.

We talked a bit more and agreed that the people of this country need to wake up and do something about fascists that are ruining our country.

I ended up walking away with a Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement pamphlet about fighting the fascists.

Strange day…

I love the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Director and Co-writer Michel Gondry is so talented.

So, when I found that the Michel Gonry had a new movie out called the Science of Sleep, I knew I would like it.

Unfortunately, I never made it to the theater to see it. But it recently came out on DVD.

So, check out the trailer below and then run, don’t walk, to your nearest retailer and grab a copy of the movie.

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BTW- The “making of” special feature is great.