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May 28, 2006 - [ Seattle Times ]

An Inconvenient Truth, director Davis Guggenheim's documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's longtime campaign to raise awareness of global warming via a touring slide-show presentation, opens Friday at Pacific Place and the Guild 45th.
 

May 23, 2006 - [ Time ]

A clever apercu from Al Gore? The mind does not perhaps reel. But it does do a little startled jig.
 

May 22, 2006 - [ Associated Press ]

Michael Moore has been the American on a mission at the Cannes Film Festival the last few years. This time it's Al Gore, with the documentary An Inconvenient Truth...
 

May 22, 2006 - [ The New York Times ]

The frustrations of a man whose long-sought goal remains out of reach are vividly on display in the first few minutes of An Inconvenient Truth, a new documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's quest to spur action against global warming.
 

May 19, 2006 - [ Associated Press ]

[An Inconvenient Truth] is a magnificent primer on global warming and a tough-love commentary on how today’s energy gluttony could be endangering tomorrow.
 

May 18, 2006 - [ Environment News Service ]

Hollywood put out a green welcome mat Tuesday for former Vice President Al Gore and his film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.  Larry David, David Duchovny, Sharon Stone, and Garry Shandling were among the actors and activists who entered the theatre on a green carpet instead of the usual red one.
 

May 2, 2006 - [ Seattle Times ]

...Now he (Al Gore) is in town for an invitation-only screening of a documentary film chronicling the presentations and his other work on global warming. An Inconvenient Truth, which received standing ovations at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, opens in Seattle in June. A book of the same name is set to be released this month...
 

April 30, 2006 - [ Time ]

Two things about Jeff Skoll: he wants to make the world a better place, and he didn't found eBay... His company, Participant Productions, has just relieved Warner Bros. of half the budget of my film Syriana. That seems sort of risky, and I'm very curious about Jeff. His last company was eBay—perhaps you've heard of it? He was its first employee, its first president. He tells me eBay's secret. "It's a community," he says, "and communities are built on trust." He tells me that he believes people are basically good, and if you give them the opportunity to be good, they will be... "If you look at our track record, what we proved is that people are good," he says softly. "And that's pretty cool."
 

April 28, 2006 - [ Newsweek ]

A movie about Al Gore giving a PowerPoint presentation about global warming doesn’t sound all that exciting, but if you liked March of the Penguins, you’ll love An Inconvenient Truth. Gore is as relentless in his travels to save the planet and faces almost as many obstacles as those penguins making their way across the tundra.

April 20, 2006 - [ Variety ]

Al Gore will be rubbing elbows with Wolverine and Tom Hanks at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, where Latin cinema will be well represented alongside a bevy of French and American pics.

April 18, 2006 - [ Washington Post ]

An Inconvenient Truth is a cinematic version of the lecture that Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming... In the future, people will not yearn for the winters of yesteryear but for the summers. Katrina produced several hundred thousand evacuees. The flooding of Calcutta would produce many millions. We are in for an awful time.

April 11, 2006 - [ Variety ]

Fast-food megalith McDonald's is hatching a "crisis management" plan to deal with Fox Searchlight's release of Fast Food Nation and the publication of author Eric Schlosser's follow-up, Chew on This: Everything You Didn't Want to Know about Fast Food...
 

April 6, 2006 - [ ABC News ]

...Coming soon: An Inconvenient Truth, which has Al Gore describing what he calls a planetary emergency, opens in movie theaters around the world in late May.

 

March 14, 2006 - [ Variety ]

...He (Al Gore) was on hand to encourage exhibs to get behind docu An Inconvenient Truth, in which Gore lays out the dangers of global warming, his own long history of advocacy on the issue and the dangers of continued inaction. The former veep is working the festival circuit for his doc as if he were on the campaign trail. He was at Sundance before his ShoWest appearance, and he's slated to attend Cannes.

March 6, 2006 - [ Los Angeles Times ]

"...the ascension of [best picture winner] Crash symbolized not only the rise of independently financed movies but also this award season's emphasis on personal stories about divisive social issues."
 

March 1, 2006 - [ RealScreen ]

Two years ago, eBay magnate Jeff Skoll founded Participant Productions to make media with a message a profitable business. With a series of successful dramas to its name, the company turns its attention more fully to non-fiction.

February 24, 2006 - [ Fortune ]

How can anyone living through today's bizarre and mutable weather not be concerned about global warming? This winter, New York had its largest snowfall in history on a Sunday, followed by a 60-degree day Thursday. A week later, I sat in the audience at the TED conference in Monterrey hearing Al Gore enumerate fact after fact that underscored the gravity of the changes in global weather.
 

February 21, 2006 - [ The Globe and Mail ]

Hollywood turned left the day the internet billionaire and the Hollywood star met at the luxury hotel. It was the last day that Jeff Skoll, the former eBay whiz kid, would be in Dubai. George Clooney wanted to meet for breakfast. Both men were in the sheikdom for the shooting of the movie Syriana—Skoll as producer, Clooney as star...

February 9, 2006 - [ The Hollywood Reporter ]

Her vocal contributions to Good Night, and Good Luck earned Dianne Reeves the award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. "A lot of it had to do with George Clooney, who selected all of the music," Reeves said, adding that she believes the film, while set in the 1950s, carries an important theme for today.
 

January 31, 2006 - [ New York Times ]

In a year when size has counted for less than serious intent among voters, Oscar nominations were divvied up on Tuesday among mainly small films with deep political and social themes, from gay romance to the abuse of government power to racial relations to the cycle of vengeance in the Middle East.