New Michael Moore project gives drug companies a sick feeling
By Elaine Dutka / Los Angeles Times America's pharmaceutical industry is putting out an advisory about the latest potential threat to its health: Michael Moore. Moore, the filmmaker whose targets have included General Motors ("Roger & Me"), the gun lobby (the Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine") and President Bush ("Fahrenheit 9/11"), ...
Moore’s Magic: 9/11 Electrifies By Rex Reed / New York Observer Michael Moore leaves no turn unstoned. There are multitudes of shattering, seminal moments in his brilliant Bush-whacking documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, that reveal more about the cynicism, greed and ineptitude in the U.S. government than you will ever learn from ...
Michael Moore Brings the War Home
by Danny Duncan Collum / Sojourners In the theater where I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, the coming attractions featured a trailer for The Motorcycle Diaries—an upcoming film about the early life of the Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. The trailer ended with the tag line, "If you let the world ...
`Fahrenheit 9/11': Luring TV viewers to the theater for news
By Frazier Moore / San Francisco Chronicle Time was, you had to go to the movies to see the news. Then came television, which brought newsreels right into your home. Now, in this election year a half-century later, people in huge numbers have found that getting news about the war ...
Time Magazine / Richard Corliss, Reported by Desa Philadephia and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles, Jackson Baker/Memphis, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines and John F. Dickerson and Adam Zagorin/Washington, with other bureausJuly 12, 2004 Was it all just a dream?" Michael Moore poses that question at the start of Fahrenheit 9/11, his docu-tragicomedy about ...
Time Magazine July 12, 2004 Documentaries are traditionally the sober stepchildren of movies, their makers are usually diligent folks behind the camera and in the editing room. With his 1989 Roger & Me, Michael Moore juiced up the genre by putting his bulky charisma front and center, pestering the powerful ...
Moore’s Magic: 9/11 Electrifies By Rex Reed / New York Observer Michael Moore leaves no turn unstoned. There are multitudes of shattering, seminal moments in his brilliant Bush-whacking documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, that reveal more about the cynicism, greed and ineptitude in the U.S. government than you will ever learn from ...
<i> Chicago Sun-Times</i> :"Fahrenheit 9/11" is a Compelling, Persuasive film."
By Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun-Times Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is less an expose of George W. Bush than a dramatization of what Moore sees as a failed and dangerous presidency. The charges in the film will not come as news to those who pay attention to politics, but Moore ...
'Fahrenheit 9/11': Connecting With a Hard Left By Desson Thomson / Washington Post CANNES, France -- "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's most powerful film since "Roger & Me," slices and dices President Bush's presidency into a thousand satirical pieces. It's a wonder the chief executive -- at least, the one portrayed ...
<i>The Washington Post : 'Fahrenheit 9/11'</i>: Connecting With a Hard Left
By Desson Thomson / The Washington Post CANNES, France -- "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's most powerful film since "Roger & Me," slices and dices President Bush's presidency into a thousand satirical pieces. It's a wonder the chief executive -- at least, the one portrayed in this movie -- doesn't scatter ...
"Bowling for Columbine" and "Roger & Me" now out on DVD!
Dear Friends, Well, tomorrow is the big day -- "Bowling for Columbine" hits the video stores! And here's an added piece of good news -- tomorrow you can also pick up, for the first time on DVD, my first film, "Roger & Me." (If you go to www.michaelmoore.com or www.Amazon.com, ...
The Latest News about "Bowling for Columbine" and "Stupid White Men"
I am David Schankula, the editor of http://www.MichaelMoore.com. While Mike is away for a few weeks, I thought I would bring you up to date on the latest news regarding "Bowling for Columbine" and "Stupid White Men." "Bowling for Columbine" continues to roll on across the country in a way ...
Philly Cheese and Cheney Please
Dear friends, Two nights of watching the Republican Convention/Infomercial and I'm in hog-heaven. It is the funniest show I've seen on TV in years. How they were able to round up every one of the 37 black Republicans in the country and then trot them out on the stage to ...
The Awful Truth Premier and Three Kings
Dear Friends, Mark this date on your calendar -- Wednesday, May 17, 10pm -- the premiere episode of our second season of "The Awful Truth" on the Bravo network. Twelve new shows, all in color, mostly in English. Lots of chase scenes. The return of Karen Duffy and Ben Hamper. ...
Dear friends, I tried to write this letter to you last night, but the level of sadness in me would not allow me to sit at this keyboard and compose these words. How much more can my hometown take? How much more do the people we love have to suffer? ...
Pauline Kael, the Truth, and Nothing But... Brought to you by AOL Time Warner
Dear friends, This is the final installment of my thrilling and uncalled-for "Roger & Me" 10th anniversary "memoirs." I would like to close out by telling you the story of my encounter with the infamous film critic, Pauline Kael. Ten years ago tonight, just three days after Time Inc. officially ...
The Day I Was To be Tarred and Feathered
Dear Friends, Twenty-five years ago this weekend, thousands of people showed up to the polls in my hometown. It was a special election, called by the local Board of Education. On the simple paper ballot, there was only one line, a single question, which read as follows: "Should Michael Moore ...
Dear Friends -- VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We did it! The Counter Coup has won. Impeachment is dead. CNN just called it "a landslide." History was made tonight. And all of you made it happen. From out of the blue, as I and many of you predicted, tens of thousands of angry citizens ...
Less than a week to go. Oh, you should see the mail I'm getting. The right wing has come completely unglued at the possibility that maybe - just maybe - millions of people who had planned on staying home next Tuesday have now decided to go to the polls and ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'Dirty Wars' by Jeremy Scahill
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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