Thanks everyone for your comments. Apparently the Ralph haters haven’t found us yet so let’s cherish this time together! Opening week in NYC as been great. We have had pretty good crowds Thursday and Friday after our opening night was sold out for 3 shows! The usual arguments during the Q and A ensue but I have to say my favorite Q and A was yesterday when we had about 40 film/political science students from City College and NYU attended. Also mixed into that crowd were Senior Citizens. It gave me faith in the Youth and the Seniors of America. Not so much that they love or hate Ralph but that several of them said they felt inspired to get out become involved in everything from community social work to civic work right in the neighborhood of the theater. So that was nice.
Please listen to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now on Monday morning (Feb. 5). Ralph and I will be on.
Thanks and I will check in again as soon as I come up for breath from this opening week-end!! I’m bugging Steve to come say hi too, so I’m sure he will be here any minute. THANKS and tell your friends to come see AN UNREASONABLE MAN!!!! Bye, Henriette
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Hi, i’m from spain (i live in Seville) and i’m a fan of ralph nader. I’ve bought his last book and also translated his article on the wikipedia to spanish.
Some Reviews:
New Yorker
New York Magazine
New York Times
Philadelphia, Boston, and Los Angeles launch this GREAT film THIS Friday and they need us to email and call our friends in those cities and try to encourage them to help with the advertising!
Countless other cities follow soon thereafter.
There is no greater thing we can do NOW than to continue to get people to see this film in NYC and in the cities that launch this film this Friday and thereafter!
IFC and theaters around the country will continue to watch how NYC sales are going in our 2nd week.
New Yorkers and LOTS of tourists who have seen (and who CAN STILL see this film in NYC) will spread the word about this independent film all over as we continue to flyer, poster, blog, internet-post, letter write, and call radio stations about it!
Handing out flyers in the subway is legal and very useful and its not as cold underground as outside!
Aaron still has flyers and posters at NyPirg (9 Murray St.) and there are posters and flyers at the IFC (6th Ave and 3rd St).
Lets make sure EVERYONE knows that Ralph Nader is on The Daily Show with John Stewart this Wednesday Feb 14th (Valentine’s Day) at 11 pm on Comedy Central.
It will be a great PR opportunity for the film in front of MILLIONS of our target audience in EVERY city!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/05/1532248
Your rollout schedule for the film looks like it will be months before it gets to the hinterlands. Can you talk with someone like Robert Greenwald and develop a guerilla strategy for getting out tons of DVDs? Or will that create channel conflict with commercial release? In summary, how can someone in rural American see the film anytime soon without a long, long drive?
Please bring your film to Seattle. I didn’t see Seattle on the schedule and Ralph was warmly received here. I had the chance to meet him and I knew that I was in the presence of a legend.
Clearly Ralph ran on his conviction and as we can see from liberals like Eric Alterman they are willing to scapegoat anyone to maintain the two party duopoly that changes nothing.
Thanks for keeping Ralph’s legacy alive and I do hope you bring your film to Seattle.
Hi, I watched your interview on Democracy Now and I’m really glad to hear the story about this film and to know how you’re involved with it. I followed the Nader campaigns first by chance and then by choice. I too was angry about 2000 and thought Ralph should step back in 2004–except that the rest of his C-span interview (where he announced that he was thinking about running and wanted people to send him their thoughts about that) was so interesting and so informattive that by the end I knew he was doing the right thing. No other candidate would speak directly about the most important issues that face regular Americans–healthcare, living wages, corporate fraud, etc–and he was the only candidate who spoke frankly about the wrong direction of the Iraq war. In 2007 it is vogue to oppose the war, but in 2004 the country was still deluded about the reasons we are there–vast numbers of Americans believed Iraq caused 9/11 because their President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of State told them so. Ralph was (and, sad to say, still is) the only uncorrupted (ok, be kind…unco-opted) presidential candidate and that is why people voted for him (Gore & Kerry could have spoken out more clearly on those issues too, but they did not). I learned more about citizenship and democracy by following Ralph in the 2004 campaign than ever before. I feel like a better citizen and a better person for having listened and learned. I read better books. I vote with re-newed enthusiasm. And now I’m involved with community groups who are working to strengthen our neighborhoods against the interests of an industry that has control over our governor, the state legislature, our mayor, and city council. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable because I see the world differently now and because there is so much vitriol hurled against a presidential candidate who didn’t even win. (I only tell close friends about feeling inspired by Nader’s campaign.) But I feel certain that history will look upon Ralph Nader with favor. I think he was right. Good luck with the film!
Darn it… thanks for trying to get the word out about Nader on The Daily Show in your post above, William, but it was on THIS week Wednesday, not Feb. 14th. But for now the video of the interview can be viewed at The Daily Show website. If people want to see it try either under “Last night’s highlights” or “More videos” to find it.
Oh and Bill (below William’s post), I don’t know how soon Netflix is releasing it, but that’s one way see the film without the long drive.
Greetings Brothers & Sisters:
There have been a couple of Nader apearances lately on on KPFK Los Angeles that you might enjoy:
A short segment with Maria Armoudian.
A great one-hour interview with Christine Blosdale.
I’m off to the second show of the LA premiere tonight. Thanks so much for this film!
DS
To MB,
It is terrible that so many Nader supporters were left feeling so bad, so responsible for the outcome of the election and the subsequent Bush legacy. But you are absolutely right to recognize that the most important outcome is the politically active person you have become as a result. I’ll be looking for your name in the future–a future that looks a lot brighter to me because of you.
Excellent movie. Saw it today and wish it had a MUCH bigger release.
A fantastic and even handed view of Nader — and as someone who was a formerly angry with Nader for the 2000 and 2004 elections — i totally take that back now.
It is plain to see that Nader is an intellectually honest man with true integrity. I noticed that everyone who had worked with him (even though they may disagree with his presidential runs as i do) has a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for him — and that says a lot.
Again, fantastic movie — should be in the oscars for best documentary next year — thank you for informing me.
This guy is blinder than a bat.
I think Consumer’s Union should sue his eye doctor for malpractice. He still can’t see the difference between Al Gore and George Bush?????
I think Consumers Union should sue the Green Party for false advertising. These guys still deny that their candidate threw the election. As a result of their candidate, the US has done NOTHING on global warming for the past 6 years.
Ralph Nader is an unexcusable ego.
Thanks for the movie.
Hey Alan,
first of all isn’t the word inexcusable? second of all, what did Al Gore do for the 8 years he was vice president about global warming? Please list concrete things he did. Now he is back to his liberal roots and guess why? Because he LOST the election, hit bottom and did what he was supposed to do. So thank Ralph for that!!!
I saw this flick last night and posted a very positive review on http://631politics.com
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