Michael Moore S&D

While Moore's background is in grassroots organising and muckraking journalism, his ticket to fame was America's flourishing medium of satire – a medium he did much to reinvent. His forebears range from Charlie Chaplin to Abbie Hoffman, as Kevin Mattson observed in a 2003 critique for Dissent. Today, Moore operates in a crowded comedic field, much of which could be called 'post-ideological'. Jon Stewart of 'The Daily Show' is unmistakably liberal, but he can be equally merciless toward George W. Bush and Hugo Chávez. Bill Maher, a spirited Bush-basher and opponent of the Iraq war, staunchly defended Israel's July 2006 bombardment of Lebanon and gave an obsequious interview to Benjamin Netanyahu. 'South Park' routinely mocks the pieties of the right and the left. But in Moore's top-grossing documentaries and polemical books, there is no mistaking where his flag is planted. And despite his old-school labour movement roots, he fully understands (to quote Mattson) that today's 'young people are reached via satellite dishes and mega-mall bookstores rather than through cafés or union halls or small magazines'.

He said point-blank that the CIA trained and funded bin Laden, which I have not seen corroborated.

I'm not defending Moore's shortcuts so much as I don't care that he makes them. It doesn't bother me, its par for the course with filmmaking. I don't accept anything he displays on-screen as "the truth" and am saddened and surprised that anyone would do so.

The characterization of Leninism as being concerned with the well-being of humanity is rather disingenuous. Or at least overly simplistic.

but milo the writer's concluding sentence about there being "no question which side his flag is planted on' is made in contrast to the other previous three examples - the implication being that the side(s) the other "post ideological" comedians/critics take are more nuanced, balanced, etc., that it ISN'T clear which side their flag is planted on.

October 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhydyxRjujU&feature=player_embedded

Basically my first take-away from this is MIA has nailed the social protest OST market 4 lyfe.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/09/17/movies/1247464643127/exclusive-clip-capitalism-a-love-story.html

finally saw this last one, maybe his second best after F 9/11.

Finally saw it too. The first half is his best stuff in years. The part 40 mins in about "Peasant Death" secret life insurance policies is more shocking than anything else in the film.

The last half though, where he starts doing his usual stunts, is far less effective, and the whole Obama wins people fight back tone is silly and naive. That's what you get in a movie finished right after his election.

Of course after seeing MM in "Unreasonable Man" it's hard to take anything this guy says seriously.

this guy is a #1 troll

he tweets:

Liberal pundits are saying we should "stand up to Obama!" Really? How should we do that? More begging? More "tsk tsk"? More "pretty please?"

spotted on sidewalk outside IFC Center yakking w/ patrons after Q&A session for Jeremy Scahill's docfilm Dirty Wars. You won't believe it but he was in t shirt and jeans.

Ran across a cache of old VHS tapes that were boxed up in the garage and found the TV Nation tapes I had. I lucked out and got to see the pilot almost a year before it actually aired. Instantly thought, no way this is getting on. It was classic Mad Magazine "beware of The Man" pop sociology with Michael Moore as Alfred E. Chomsky and Louis Theroux, Karen Duffy, Merrill Markoe, Janeane Garofalo & that KGB guy as the Usual Gang of Idiots. Best prank Moore ever pulled off - convincing NBC to fund a season of it.

WHERE TO INVADE NEXT explores the current state of the nation in a form that is quintessential Moore: provocative, impassioned and very funny. The film was a runaway hit with audiences and critics at this month's Toronto International Film Festival (and currently boasts a rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes). The film's American premiere is this Friday evening at the New York Film Festival presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It sold out within hours of being announced.

Moore's epic journey will invade American cinemas this December -- and will be in hundreds of theaters across the country ahead of the first presidential primary.

http://wheretoinvadenext.com/

Really wish Michael Moore would write documentaries for other people to direct and star in.

Great title.

Hey, I remember this TV Nation bit

out tomorrow

https://theintercept.com/2016/02/10/where-to-invade-next-is-the-most-subversive-movie-michael-moore-has-ever-made/

looks bad

friend (not the op) shared this:

https://www.facebook.com/sylvain.lariviere.777/videos/vb.829750410/10156828556290411/?type=2&theater

Sylvain Lariviere

Follow · May 25 · Edited ·

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ain't America
Here is a different reality about Italia from an Italian girl who's living a different daily reality than this video
(From Valentina Corvi)

ciao! just to tell u that that moor's video is completelly false. the majority of us strugles to arrive to the end of the month, and we are almost bankrupted as a country. the two companies where he went, have nothing to do with all the rest of the Italian companies. wages are around 1000/1200 euros per month, the 100% goes away for monthly expenses (house rent, bills, food, kids needs, medicines..). yes, sure, holidays here are payed, but normal people use that money to survive not to go on holiday. that couple?? easy when u are in two people working and no kids. in italy is much more common that only one of the two has a job (there are no jobs here) and 3 kids at home.
we are devastated by the taxes of our corrupted politicians (the only really rich in my country). for i stance, i have a house in the center of rome, was my granny house. i have to give every year 6500 euros to the gov only cause i own that house, only cause is mine, every year i have to pay 6500 euros, over a hoise where already my granmother payd lot of taxes when she bought it. than i have to pay the tari, other 600 euros, to the district of rome, so evry year just cause i posses my family house, i've to give 7000 euros to the gov.
and i'm lucky, cause i can afford, i belong to the minority of the itslians. if i was a normal itslian, i would have been forced to sell my family house. half of the pay an employe gets here, goes to the government in first place, with what remains, u have to survive.
another exaple, gino strada, he is a surgeon who created a medical charity organization called emergency. emergency used to work only in the third world or in war places as siria, afganistan ecc. they provide free medical assitence. well, now they had to open emergency centers also in italy, cause the 20% of the italians cannot afford paying for healthcare, though here is not like in the us and medical healsh should be free. but the is a tax on it called "ticket", u dont pay the medical care but y pay the tax on it. and people are so poor now that they cannot afford paying the ticket. so gino strada was forced to help suffering people also in his country.
michael moor wanted to uplight what's wrong in the us. but he should have gone in northen europe, not in italy. people want to come in the usa, cause at least there u can find a job. maybe maternity and holidays are not payd, but still u can find a job. here people do not have a job, nevertheless they have to pay a lot of taxes over whatever. we have also a tax over taxes, it sounds funny, but is the dramatic italian reality.
never so a more unfair video as the moor's one.
the only thing here is better than usa, the reason why our life span is wider, is that is true that we don't eat shit. our diet, the mediterrain diet, is very healthy since we eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, very little sugar, very little fats, and we don't like processed food. but obama is pishing for the ttip, he want europe to be invaded with the american shit, meat full of antibiotics and hormons, ogm, veg filled up with chemicals. as soon as the american edible crap will invade us, will die obese, with diabetis and as soon as u do there!

ciao!

Where To Invade Next had some stuff I liked--a bit contrasting the ways in which Germany acknowledges and pays tribute to its victims of the Holocaust with America's inability to do any such equivalent re: slavery admittedly choked me up a bit. But he's gotten awful lazy as a filmmaker, and the film is ultimately a bit shallow and repetitive. Grossest moment: putting the father of a victim of a mass shooting on camera to discuss his lack of hostility towards the shooter as proof at how non-grudge-holding Europeans are; my husband actually yelled "Fuck Off!" at the TV.

Michael Moore's October Surprise: 'TrumpLand' Documentary

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/movies/19michael-moore-trumpland.html

Ugh, like this election needs his half-assery We have enough full-assery as it is.

Total fucking dud

yeah, right? One of about 6 people in the country who told us Trump would win.

interview

What you’re going to see is, on day one, he’s going to rescind a dozen or more of Obama’s executive-branch regulations. On day two, Republicans will start printing laws the way you print fliers for a homecoming dance. Before the liberals and the Democrats can get their heads screwed on straight, they’ll have 20 laws passed. Building a wall. Creating a Muslim ban. He’s shown how he’s going to do it. He’s going to get away with it by making it a ban on Muslims who come from the following countries. He needs just enough cover for his crowd to say, “Oh, he’s being reasonable there. He’s not banning all Muslims.”...

I met (Trump) in 1998. Roseanne Barr — after her sitcom was over, they gave her a talk show. I was on, and Trump was there in the green room. He sees me, goes to the producer, and says, “I can’t be on the same show. I saw that General Motors movie, and he’s going to attack me.”

The producer said [to me], “Is there any way you can help me?” I said, “Oh brother, I’ll go talk to him.” I walked over, shook his hand — it was very clammy. I don’t honestly remember the size, but it was moist. He said, “We don’t have to mix it up out there.” I said, “Why do you assume that about me? I’m from Michigan. We don’t really know you. The only thing that sticks in my head is you were one of the few guys that was on the cover of Playboy.” He laughed. I said, “It’s Roseanne. She’s a comedian. You have nothing to worry about here.”

He stayed, and we did the show. And it wasn’t until last year that it hit me: People think he’s stupid — he’s not stupid at all. He played me; he got me to not be myself, to not talk any anti-corporate talk. I thought I was going over to relax him. What he was doing was undoing me so I wouldn’t be Michael Moore. This guy is good....

Tom Hanks should be the template of who the Democrats should run. He is beloved by tens of millions of people, and he’s smart, and he operates from both his brain and his heart. As far as I’m concerned, he has good politics.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/michael-moore-donald-trump-democrats-election-1201960466/

well he was doin' ok til that last bit

so Ocasio-Cortez has some screen time in this one; freshly edited!

Here's the exclusive trailer for Michael Moore's (@MMFlint) newest documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9." It's in theaters Sept. 21. pic.twitter.com/eHLPy1J9o4

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) August 9, 2018

Oh great he’s reusing that asinine title

well F9/11 did gross $221 million globally, so not a hindrance

The official poster for my new movie! See you all at the theaters across the U.S. on Opening Day, September 21st! #Fahrenheit119 pic.twitter.com/khZrBMqqSQ

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) August 15, 2018