Moore receives John Steinbeck Award
TRAVERSE CITY — Hometown filmmaker Michael Moore is this year's recipient of the John Steinbeck Award.The award is given to writers and artists whose work captures Steinbeck's spirit of empathy, commitment to democratic values and belief in the dignity of people who by circumstance are pushed to the fringes of ...
SAN JOSE, CA (Sept 21, 2010) — Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author, Michael Moore, has been named the recipient of the Steinbeck Award by the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. Moore will formally receive the "In the Souls of the People" award on Thursday, October ...
Michael Moore says story comes before stars at Traverse City Film Festival
TRAVERSE CITY -- Michael Moore does not underestimate the intelligence of the moviegoing public.You can tell by the way the famed filmmaker and Michigander programs the Traverse City Film Festival every year with foreign films, documentaries, shorts and classics that don't tread on typical Hollywood territory. The numbers back him ...
Michael Moore on His Life, His Films and His Activism
AMY GOODMAN: Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report, I’m Amy Goodman. Today in this Democracy Now special, we spend the hour with one of the most famous independent filmmakers in the world, Michael Moore. For the past twenty years, Michael has been one of the most ...
If you know the Upper West Side of Manhattan, you know there are probably more progressives per square inch here than in all the 50 states. So, it's no surprise that a big bunch of people showed up this evening at my small one-bedroom apartment in this highly liberal neighborhood ...
Best films of the noughties No 10: Fahrenheit 9/11
It seems strange to reflect that, drowning as we are these days in campaigning documentary films, when he started out, Michael Moore was one of a kind. Ever since his 1989 film Roger & Me, in which he harassed the CEO of General Motors over the closure of car plants ...
The films that defined the noughties
This decade has brought some extraordinary shifts in the way films are made, and the way we watch them. But it’s not always easy to pinpoint exactly when those changes began – or where they will end. Many of the best films on this list – long-gestating triumphs such as ...
Trade reform - save jobs, save the planet
Trade and globalization - when not referencing blockbuster sports transactions or raucous street protests, debates over these abstract terms can give Ambien and Jack Daniels a run for their money as a cure for insomnia. Of course, that's the problem - the rules governing what we buy and sell are ...
'Fast Break' and 'Good Hair' embody the past and present of the documentary film
Say what you will about Michael Moore, but this you cannot deny: He has changed permanently our concept of a documentary film.Before Moore, feature documentaries generally presented themselves as fly-on-the-wall, you-are-there productions made by impartial chroniclers unobtrusively observing, say, a mental hospital (Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies”), a rock star (D. ...
Dr. Jack Stanzler: A Flint Hero
I would like to tell you about a good friend of mine who passed away this week. His name was Jack Stanzler. He was well known in Flint for decades, one of the true fighters for social justice in the area where I grew up.Jack was always keen to remind ...
STANZLER, Jack Arthur - age 81, of Ann Arbor, formerly of Flint, died Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at Sunrise Assisted Living in Ann Arbor. Services will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, October 16, 2009 at Congregation Beth Israel, 200 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor with Rabbi Rob Dobrusin officiating. Interment will ...
DOCUMENTARY directors are like theatre actors. You know they must be working out of love because there is no way they are doing it for the money. As far as documentary makers who have become rich off of their work, you can probably count them on one hand, if not ...
Mike's Second Largest Opening Ever! Don't Miss 'Capitalism' this Weekend
Friends, It's your friendly webmaster from MichaelMoore.com here to remind you THIS is THE weekend to go see the movie so much of America is talking about: "Capitalism: A Love Story." As you know, documentaries do not last long in theaters so don't put off going to what many critics ...
Michael Moore: 'We can't let Flint die'
By Kristin Longley / Flint Journal FLINT — Michael Moore — yes, the same filmmaker who chronicled Flint’s troubles in “Roger & Me” — says the city looks to be taking a turn for the better. In an interview with The Flint Journal on Friday, Moore says he sees hope ...
Sun Media's Jim Slotek talks to filmmaker Michael Moore about his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love StoryBy Jim Slotek / Edmonton SunIt's called Capitalism: A Love Story. And it's ostensibly Michael Moore's magnum opus. Under the shadow of the global recession, it ties together his fury over downsizing (Roger & ...
Moore Returning To Flint To Premier New Movie
Flint Native Showing 'Capitalism: A Love Story' Sunday At Whiting Theater WNEM Saginaw FLINT, Mich. -- Controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore will be premiering his latest movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story" at the Whiting Auditorium in Flint this weekend. The Sunday afternoon screening will be introduced by Moore and he ...
Michael Moore takes aim at capitalism
'Capitalism: A Love Story' takes on politicians of all stripes. By Andy Klein / Los Angeles Times It's been 20 years since "Roger & Me" turned Michael Moore into a national figure and -- as a nice side effect -- opened up the commercial potential of non-concert documentaries. And it's ...
Detroit's police chief to soon find himself in the movie spotlight
By Rochelle Riley / Detroit Free Press Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans doesn’t know whether he’s ready for his close-up. But it’s coming. Evans is featured in Michael Moore’s new documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which takes looks at the economical misfirings that resulted in what Moore calls “the biggest ...
Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism'
By Christy Lemire / AP LOS ANGELES — How do you make a movie about the country's current economic crisis and actually get people to see it? Two obstacles most obviously arise: illustrating such a potentially dry subject in a compelling way, and persuading audiences to pay money for information ...
Michael Moore's "Capitalism": Stirring Outrage from the Left
By Ted Johnson / VarietyJust minutes after the Los Angeles premiere screening of Michael Moore's "Capitalism, A Love Story" ended, the filmmaker posted this message to his Twitter feed: "The packed house gets up to grab their torches and pitchforks..." He was joking # the audience actually bolted down to ...
Michael Moore film says capitalism must die
Los Angeles Times Twenty years after getting his start at the Toronto film festival with "Roger & Me," Michael Moore was back Sunday night among 1,400 cheering friends for the first public screening of "Capitalism: A Love Story," without question destined to be his most controversial film yet. Even the ...
Film Society to screen 'Capitalism'
Michael Moore doc shown prior to New York Film Fest Hollywood Reporter The Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" on Sept. 21 at Alice Tully Hall in New York as a special event in advance of its New York Film Festival, which officially ...
Michael Moore’s Anti-Capitalist Attack Dazzles Italians: Review
Review by Farah Nayeri Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- “Michael, we love you!” Filmmaker Michael Moore is promoting his new movie “Capitalism: A Love Story” to the media at the Venice Film Festival. He is stopped in his tracks when an Italian female reporter unfurls a banner bearing those adoring words. ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
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 ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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