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	Bowling For Columbine Summary
		Bowling for Columbine became the first documentary to be invited to the Cannes Film Festival official selection for fifty-five years.
		Bowling for Columbine was awarded a newly created special award and many critics hailed the feature length documentary as a sign of the rebirth of the form.
		Because of its significance to Americans on both personal and national levels, "Bowling for Columbine" has to be considered the most important (and it's becoming the most watched) US documentary film in many a year.
	www.onickz.com /cinema/bfc.htm (1099 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Bowling For Columbine (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Moore's "Bowling for Colum-bine," a documentary that is both hilarious and sorrowful, is like a two-hour version of that anecdote.
		In "Bowling for Columbine," however, he is not so sure of the answers as in the popular "Roger & Me," a film in which he knew who the bad guys were, and why.
		He explains that all of the Columbine bullets were freely sold to the teenage killers by Kmart, at 17 cents apiece.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021018/REVIEWS/210180303/1023 (856 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'Bowling for Columbine'
		In "Bowling for Columbine," his troubling and troublesome look at America's gun culture, Moore (who has gone on to write best-selling books like the current "Stupid White Men") is as much a provocateur as he is a filmmaker.
		Moore starts "Bowling" with some riffs on the state he grew up in, Michigan, "a gun lover's paradise." He turns out to be a rarity for a liberal, a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn. as well as the recipient of an NRA award as a teenager.
		"Bowling for Columbine's" final and most focused section involves a shooting in Moore's hometown of Flint that especially galvanized him: the school killing of a 6-year-old first-grader by another 6-year-old.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-kenny11oct11,0,3218209.story (700 words)

	Bowling for Columbine
		Fact: Bowling splices together two different election ads, one run by the Bush campaign (featuring a revolving door, and not even mentioning Horton) and another run by an independent expenditure campaign (naming Horton, and showing footage from which it can be seen that he is fl).
		Bowling cites some examples: the razor blades in Halloween apples scare, the flesh-eating bacteria scare, etc. The examples are taken straight from Barry Glassner's excellent book on the subject, "The Culture of Fear," and Moore interviews Glassner on-camera for the point.
		Bowling concludes that Canada isn't peaceful because it lacks guns and gun nuts -- it has lots of those -- but because the Canadian mass media isn't into constant hyping of fear and loathing, and the American media is. (One problem).
	www.mooreexposed.com /bfc.html (6322 words)

	Bowling for Columbine - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		In Bowling for Columbine he takes the camera into a bank that gives away guns with new accounts, to exercises of the Michigan Militia, into the empty Columbine High School, even into Charlton Heston's home.
		Even though Bowling for Columbine is a documentary, it should be noted that there is a definite bias.
		In spite of this violence, Bowling for Columbine often elicits laughs from the audience.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /bowling_columbine.htm (885 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Bowling for Columbine
		This time it's guns in America, and the most demented PR genius on the planet could not have developed a more effective promotion for Bowling for Columbine than what's going on in Maryland as we speak: Some crazy nut is running around the D.C. area gunning down citizens at random.
		Bowling for Columbine, as exhausting as it is entertaining, is the most significant American film I've seen in ages, perhaps the only important one this year, angrily, forcefully demonstrating that social criticism is still alive someplace other than on the Internet and that at least one American has the balls to speak his mind.
		And yet Columbine scapegoat Marilyn Manson comes across as intelligent, thoughtful, and philosophical about the American culture of conformity (and fear of nonconformity) that helped push Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold into their killing spree.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2002/bowlingcolumbine.shtml (594 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Gunning for the land of the free
		Bowling for Columbine by the American film-maker Michael Moore, best known in Britain for his satirical series TV Nation and The Awful Truth, is the first documentary to be entered in competition at Cannes for 46 years.
		Bowling for Columbine was a personal journey for Moore; he had been a marksmanship champion as a teenager and is a lifelong member of the NRA.
		It is hard not to agree, especially as the film expands from being an analysis of US gun culture to a revisionist history of the United States, suggesting the country was born in fear of outsiders and that that fear continues to influence US foreign policy.
	film.guardian.co.uk /cannes2002/story/0,11895,716923,00.html (651 words)

	Littleton and Beyond; Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" Explores America's Obsession With Guns and Violence
		"Bowling for Columbine," the latest film from director Michael Moore, pictured, will be back in the spotlight this week when in is released on DVD.
		The real causes of crime, according to "Bowling for Columbine," are rarely dramatic and seldom newsworthy: social inequities, cultural anxieties, and welfare policies that force poor single mothers into minimum-wage jobs that separate them from their kids.
		"Bowling for Columbine" would be more powerful if such insightful moments were delivered with fewer digressions, and if some of its arguments didn't seem so sketchy.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_030818bowl.html (1295 words)

	Bowling for Columbine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bowling for Columbine is a documentary film directed by and starring Michael Moore.
		It is implied that the presence of this facility, and the acceptance of institutionalized violence as a solution, contributed to the mindset that led to the massacre.
		Bowling for Columbine includes a brief interview with South Park co-creator Matt Stone, who suggests that South Park was largely inspired by Stone' s childhood experiences in Littleton, Colorado.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowling_for_Columbine (2669 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: Bowling for Columbine (2002)
		In years to come, "Bowling for Columbine" should stand as a watermark for how powerful and riveting a documentary film has the ability of being.
		"Bowling for Columbine" is absolutely rapturous cinema, a virtuoso motion picture that is, at once, fascinating, informative, heartbreaking, disturbing, and bitingly hilarious.
		"Bowling for Columbine" is one of the year's biggest entertainments, and one of its most thought-provoking.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/b/02_bowling4c.htm (916 words)

	Bowling For Columbine Reviews
		Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Bowling for Columbine," is a mess but it is the kind of mess one can glean great insight from.
		Bowling for Columbine (2002) Michael Moore, Dick Clark, Charlton Heston, James Nichols, Marilyn Manson, John Nichols, Matt Stone.
		BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, by director Michael Moore (ROGER & ME), is frequently extremely funny, sometimes quite intriguing and other times infuriatingly naive.
	www.killermovies.com /b/bowlingforcolumbine/reviews (573 words)

	The Space Film Features: Mike Moore Speaks: Bowling for Columbine
		Homemade bombs and explosive devices were found planted around the building and several survivors later reported that Harris and Klebold were smiling and laughing as they shot their fellow students.
		In Bowling for Columbine you discuss not just gun control but also racism and the media created culture of fear.
		Bowling for Columbine will screen in Australian cinemas later this year.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/film/stories/s654932.htm (3165 words)

	DVD Review: Bowling For Columbine
		Moore discusses his Oscar speech in one of the supplements on the DVD about how pleased he was at the varied response to his Oscar speech, because it was the sound of a people who have freedom of speech.
		That said, "Bowling" still appears exactly how it did when I saw it in theaters (although, and it may just be me, but the film seemed slightly brighter here than it did theatrically).
		The Q & A and a moment where a Columbine graduate confronts Moore about how much his film and work meant to her are both powerful moments.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/bowlingforcolumbinedvd.html (1542 words)

	bowling for columbine review
		Bowling For Columbine is a much needed examination of American culture, asking why the United States has well 11,000 murder per year while every other major western country, from Canada to Japan to Great Britain, have gun killings in the low hundreds or less.
		In a very effective segment of the film on the April 20, 1999 Columbine High School shootings, Moore shows Bill Clinton giving a press conference on the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia (April 20 was the heaviest day of U.S. bombings during the Kosovo war, on which a hospital and several residential buildings were hit).
		Bowling For Columbine is definitely entertaining and thought provoking; it alternates between laugh-out-loud hilarity over some of the unintentionally funny and ludicrous lines given by the interviewees, and stone-cold silence during the tragic and horrifying sequences, such as the viewing of the security camera tapes during Columbine High School massacre.
	www.geocities.com /youth4sa/columbine.html (676 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Bowling for Columbine
		Funny, chilling and provocative, "Bowling for Columbine" is a documentary that works as a hugely entertaining movie, as well as a double-barreled blast at American gun culture and the media.
		Moore's inquiries into why America is such a violent society are sparked by the Columbine massacre - the 1999 high school shooting in which 13 people were killed by two malcontent teens who then took their own lives.
		Moore's left-wing bias is obvious, but "Bowling for Columbine" is no exercise in pious liberal handwringing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2002/10/28/bowling_for_columbine_2002_review.shtml (395 words)

	Bowling for Columbine – Michael Moore
		By now you may have awakened to the news that last night, in Cannes, France, my new film, "Bowling for Columbine," was awarded the Special Prize of the 55th Cannes Film Festival.
		There is no getting around the fact that "Bowling for Columbine" is a provocative, controversial film that is going to make a lot of people angry.
		"Bowling for Columbine" is my personal view of America at the turn of this new century.
	www.theconversation.org /moorecannes.html (901 words)

	Robert's Virtual Soapbox
		Perhaps the most poignant part of “Bowling” is the segment on the 2000 shooting death of a 6-year-old white girl by a fl male classmate who had brought a handgun to school in Michigan.
		Moore establishes that the Columbine shooters attended bowling class the morning of their rampage, but otherwise his title is cryptic.
		Clips from "Bowling for Columbine," including the hilarious animated short "A Brief History of the United States of America," are available at http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/media/clips/index.php.
	blogs.salon.com /0001517/2002/10/15.html (879 words)

	BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE
		Moore draws numerous comparisons between the US and Canada (Bowling was the runner-up for Toronto's People's Choice Award, even with a scene where Moore informs viewers [and later proves] that most Canadians don't ever lock their front doors), and he certainly makes his point.
		Bowling's title is aimed at the finger-pointers — the Columbine shooters were both avid bowlers, yet the game was never once mentioned as a potential cause for their bullet bender.
		Moses has vague-sounding answers for Moore's questions about holding NRA rallies in Denver just days after Columbine (and again in Flint immediately after the youngest school shooting on record), but fumbles when asked why he thinks America is so violent when compared to the rest of the civilized world.
	www.sick-boy.com /bowling.htm (568 words)

	Bowling for Columbine
		Bowling for Columbine, a Michael Moore documentary, is more about the annals of American society, the role of the media, and fear than it is about bowling or Columbine, though you get a morsel of both within the images.
		Bowling' jumps from questioning the welfare system and its negligence to address the parent's real role in the home, to an uncomfortable interview with NRA President Charlton Heston, to an interview with Matt Stone, the creator of South Park.
		Bowling for Columbine is a breath of fresh air in a barren movie market.
	www.scottmanning.com /archives/000371.php (1263 words)

	Bowling For Columbine - DVD - Title B Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		The opening segment of Bowling For Columbine is the perfect example of this.
		Moore tackles a subject that he knows about, as a youth he was a prize winning marksman and is still a member of the National...
		Bowling For Columbine : Michael Moore : A Smug Shallow Opportunist
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-b/bowling-for-columbine (261 words)

	Liquidtheater.Com: Bowling for Columbine
		Like a lot of people, I was in shock and awe over the Columbine shooting.
		Bowling for Columbine is a movie that will piss a lot of people off.
		Bowling is the smartest look at the deaths at Columbine high school I've seen.
	liquidtheater.com /review_471.html (644 words)

	Moore captures U.S. zeitgeist / 'Bowling for Columbine' explains violence
		"Bowling for Columbine" takes a critical look at gun ownership in the United States, but it expands the debate so much -- and so well, thanks to Michael Moore's daring interviews, indelible humor and unflinching eye for detail -- that the documentary reaches an exalted level of filmmaking.
		Moore practically scolds him for insensitively appearing at an NRA rally in Colorado days after the Columbine killings and for appearing, a year later, at an NRA rally in Michigan shortly after a 6-year-old girl was killed there by a classmate.
		In another scene, he escorts two Columbine students who were injured in the shootings into the headquarters of Kmart, whose officials agree to stop selling handgun ammunition in their stores.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/18/DD194197.DTL (572 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bowling For Columbine : Special Edition (Two Disc Set) [2002]: DVD: Michael Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bowling for Columbine has very few faults, as such, but there is one other, rather insignificant problem I have with it.
		The recollection of the Columbine killings themselves is a combination of truly terrifying CCTV footage coupled with hugely emotive telephone recordings that really makes you think you can feel something of what people were going through on that fateful day.
		Bowling for Columbine is not a beautifully balanced piece of journalistic prowess, but then again, it isn't meant to be.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bowling-Columbine-Special-Disc-Set/dp/B0000DINNY (2204 words)

	Bowling for Columbine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a miracle, given the repressiveness and paranoia of the times, that Bowling For Columbine ever got made, much less that it found a company bold enough to distribute it.
		Moore observes that on the same day that 12 students and one teacher were shot at Columbine, American planes dropped more bombs on Kosovo than on any other day in the war.
		Footage from the surveillance cameras in Columbine's library reveal that all that security wasn't any help when the shootings were going on.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/b_review/brev_20021030.shtml (990 words)

	Bowling For Columbine \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And I was dismayed by the gleeful excitement of my international colleagues, their stupidest opinions of America confirmed by a large, unkempt, rambunctious shlub of a native who wears his gimme cap the way other stars favor sunglasses.
		The second time I watched ''Bowling for Columbine'' was last week in my New York neighborhood, in a full theater on a Friday night when a sniper in the Washington, D.C., area was still terrifying citizens.
		Among Moore's points in ''Bowling for Columbine'' is that guns are neutral things in themselves, but lethal in the hands of a certain kind of inflamed American -- and awfully easy for Americans to acquire.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,380722~1~~bowlingforcolumbine,00.html (708 words)

	Bowling for Columbine (2002): Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson - PopMatters Film Review
		Taking Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's 1999 assault on their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School as a point of departure, the documentary considers a range of contexts -- legal, cultural, political, and media -- in order to complicate this profound and difficult question.
		In fact, Bowling for Columbine, the first documentary in competition at Cannes in 46 years, and awarded a special 55th anniversary jury prize, offers up yet another possible, disconcerting, and compelling reason, one that has not been privileged in its promotional campaign: race and racism continue to divide and frighten Americans.
		His response, for example, to Columbine begins with himself, a lifetime member of the NRA, and native to Flint, Michigan, "a gun lover's paradise." He recalls his own childhood interest in guns, both toy (Sound-O-Power) and real, used for hunting.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/bowling-for-columbine.shtml (1033 words)

	Political Film Society - Bowling for Columbine
		His quest to find the answer takes him to Littleton, Colorado, the home of Columbine High School, and to the Beverly Hills estate of Charlton Heston, but much of his documentary is filmed in Michigan.
		Moore points out that the two responsible for the Columbine massacre were bowling together (for course credit, no less) just prior to taking aim at their classmates.
		Moore evidently did not examine Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone (2000), which argues that American society has become so fragmented and distrustful that the poor have little time to devote to politics, and social conflict is increasingly resolved by confrontation rather than negotiation.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/bowling.html (735 words)

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