MSNBC - Sept. 11 DVDs show nation in crisis, mourning

MSNBC - Sept. 11 DVDs show nation in crisis, mourningMSNBC - Sept. 11 DVDs show nation in crisis, mourningLOS ANGELES - One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president’s difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers’ points of view.

The span of emotions Americans felt on Sept. 11, 2001, is reflected in a batch of films coming to DVD about the terrorist attacks, whose tones range from communal and hopeful to raw and provocative.

Arriving Tuesday are “7 Days in September,” a heartfelt chronicle of New Yorkers in the week after the attacks, and “DC 9/11: Time of Crisis,” starring Timothy Bottoms as George W. Bush in a drama that begins with a whispered word about the attacks to the president during a school visit and concludes with his resolute speech to the nation the following week.

Michael Moore’s anti-Bush assault “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a $100 million hit that drew record numbers of moviegoers for a documentary, debuts on home video Oct. 5. Three weeks later, “September 11” — a French-produced collection of 11 short films that some critics felt carried an anti-American tone — comes out Oct. 26.

“September 11” presents short films from an international gallery of directors, including Sean Penn, Claude Lelouch, Mira Nair, Ken Loach, Danis Tanovic and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu."

Associated Press

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