NANOOK AND ME.

Whatever you think of Michael Moore's immensely satisfying movie about the awful Bush Administration and its destructive policies--and reasonable people can disagree, of course--one thing that cannot be said about "Fahrenheit 9/11" is that it is an outlaw from the documentary tradition. "The documentary tradition" sounds like a grand phrase for a genre that includes everything from "Nanook of the North" to "Girls Gone Wild." There's no doubt that it's an eclectic form. The "Documentary" section shelves Michael Moore next to National Geographic, movies about bad Presidents next to movies about butterflies, bodybuilders, and Eskimos. These movies do have one thing in ...