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I'm trying to figure/imagine why Oliver Stone's South of the Border, a friendly doc about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, isn't playing at the Toronto Film Festival. I'm calling/writing the TIFF guys as we speak but...

South of the Border director Oliver Stone, Venezuelan president Cesar Chavez a few hours ago at the Venice Film Festival.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 7, 2009 at 12:52 PM

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Mowkeka says ...

Maybe because they saw the last Oliver Stone film.

Posted by Mowkeka at September 7, 2009 1:19 PM

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lazarus says ...

Wow, Mowkeke, with this comment and your unnecessary Franken-bashing one in the other thread, I think you just snarked yourself a ticket to Bansville.

Posted by lazarus at September 7, 2009 1:26 PM

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Travis Crabtree says ...

Allow me to go Bizzarro-World DeeZee....

Looks like Chavez wants to stamp out some more free speech
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN0520744720090905

Also.... maybe not everyone in Venezuela is down with ol' Hugo
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125220655269889075.html

In other words, (before I get questioned by the Snark Police), it's not just brain-washed-by-the-US media American conservatives and evil corporate capitalists who think perhaps Chavez isn't the big lovable teddy bear Oliver Stone apparently thinks he is.

Besides, does anyone REALLY think this doc would do ANY business at all outside of perhaps college campus screenings and / or PBS fund raisers? Even with Stone's name attached?

Posted by Travis Crabtree at September 7, 2009 1:53 PM

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jasctt says ...

Scumballs. Both of them. Stone is a has been anyway.

Posted by jasctt at September 7, 2009 2:59 PM

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Arduga says ...

Stone is a living joke, sadly, still working. Only in America. I want to see Stone making films in Venezuela, with all the freedom Chavez methods allows

Posted by Arduga at September 7, 2009 3:14 PM

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bridgeman says ...

Anyone seen John Pilger's "The War on Democracy"? 2007 doc about the US's foreign policy thingy in South America over the last 30+ years. Has an extensive interview with Hugo Chavez - quite interesting, but the whole thing goes on a bit and never quite explains (to a political ignoramus like me, anyway) quite why the US has meddled in their affairs so much. Worth a look though. No idea how famous the doc is so chances are everyone here has heard of it.

Posted by bridgeman at September 8, 2009 12:28 AM

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joncro says ...

Q - 'why the US has meddled in their affairs so much'......?

A - 'Venezuela's oil is exceptionally important to both Venezuela itself and to the rest of the world. '

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2549589.stm

Posted by joncro at September 8, 2009 1:28 AM

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Mazoruler II says ...

Maybe because they are not interested in a Propaganda film in favor of a dictator who wants to be the monarch of all the venezuelan people...

Posted by Mazoruler II at September 8, 2009 1:23 PM

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Mazoruler II says ...

Maybe because they know that Venezuela has a 665% of accumulated inflation during his almost eleven years in government. Maybe bacause caracas is the second deadliest city in the whole world!!! And more than 100 people are killed every weekend just in caracas... Maybe because of the corruption of Chavez government... I live in Venezuela and I can tell truth from fact... Have you ever been in Venezuela, Jeffrey? You should come just a couple of weeks, to get out of the comfortable box in which you, Stone, Penn & Glover live. You should come, but not invited by the Ruler himself to shoot a movie about him...

Posted by Mazoruler II at September 8, 2009 1:28 PM

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corey3rd says ...

It's just rather bad taste for a director of a film to show up in the same outfit as the subject of the documentary. Are they groomsmen? Are they the new Doublemint Twins?

Stone has never recovered from the intellectual spanking he received from Morricone.

Posted by corey3rd at September 8, 2009 3:26 PM

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