Michael Moore speaks with scouts
Filmmaker stresses community service and the art of filmmaking By Carol South / Traverse City Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- A week at Boy Scout camp usually means archery, swimming, canoeing, lifesaving and other physical activities based in the great outdoors. Camp Greilick, however, also offers a media-savvy twist on ...
Moore's golden touch works its magic on his Michigan film fest
By John Monaghan / Detroit Free Press Michael Moore may be the happiest man in Michigan right now -- and with good reason. The outspoken Oscar winner and part-time Traverse City resident has had the Midas touch since launching the Traverse City Film Festival three summers ago. Skeptical residents who ...
Commentary: GM, other automakers get their due as gas slams profits By Thomas Kostigen / MarketWatch SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Michael Moore's 1989 film "Roger & Me" took General Motors' management -- specifically its chief executive at the time, Roger Smith -- to task for not seeming to care about ...
Michael Moore Steals Cannes Spotlight Again
By Pete Hammond / New York Post Michael Moore was feeling much relief as he faced a room of waiting journalists at Cannes' famous Carlton Hotel gathered there to hear about the just- announced "sequel" to his smash hit documentary, Fahrenheit 911. He's been here many times before including Sicko ...
Michael Moore Steals Cannes Spotlight Again
Hollywood.com CANNES - Michael Moore was feeling much relief as he faced a room of waiting journalists at Cannes’ famous Carlton Hotel gathered there to hear about the just- announced “sequel” to his smash hit documentary, ”Fahrenheit 9/11.” He’s been here many times before including ”Sicko” last year and he ...
Moore: `Fahrenheit 9/11' follow-up is not a sequel
By David Germain / Associated Press CANNES, France — With his follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore wants to examine America as an empire, study its standing since the Sept. 11 attacks and present revelations to surprise audiences as much as the first film did. But he doesn't want to ...
By Justine Sharrock / Mother Jones The prisons in Iraq stink. Ask any guard or interrogator and they'll tell you it's a smell they'll never forget: sweat, fear and rot. On the base where Ben Allbright served from May to September 2003, a small outfit named Tiger in western Iraq, ...
Michael Moore says insurance industry would love Clinton's healthcare plan
By Jeffrey Young / The Hill Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) proposal to mandate that all people purchase health insurance would be a boon to the industry, filmmaker Michael Moore said Friday. “Can you imagine, every time Sen. Clinton says that, the licking of the lips that goes on with ...
Tribute to '60s radical is pure poetry
Moore among hundreds at Sinclair documentary By Doug Pullen / Flint Journal FLINT - One provocateur from Davison paid tribute to another Tuesday night as Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore attended the U.S. premiere of "Twenty to Life: The Life and Times of John Sinclair" at the Flint Institute of Arts. ...
Michael Moore's "Sicko" will make you sick
By Tom Watkins / Observer & Eccentric Michael Moore's new film, "Sicko," is a communal experience that begins the moment you stand in line to get tickets and continues through the laughter and moans you hear during the film to the tears and outrage you see expressed as you exit ...
An Open Letter to CNN from Michael Moore
Dear CNN, Well, the week is over -- and still no apology, no retraction, no correction of your glaring mistakes. I bet you thought my dust-up with Wolf Blitzer was just a cool ratings coup, that you really wouldn't have to correct the false statements you made about "Sicko." I ...
Michael Moore fans impatient to see 'Sicko'
By Jim Haug / Daytona Beach News-Journal Michael Moore fans must feel like they have been denied treatment for the pre-existing condition of living in Volusia and Flagler counties. "Sicko," the ball-capped muckraker's expose on health care, opened June 29 but has yet to come to a local theater. It ...
Health Care's War Against Sicko
By Kathleen Kingsbury / TIME Corporate America has long known that the best defense is a good offense. It's no wonder then that the healthcare industry has rallied the troops in recent weeks in anticipation of Michael Moore's newest documentary, Sicko, due out in theaters nationwide on Friday. Though few ...
Moore: Health care wasn't always `Sicko'
By David Germain / Associated Press LOS ANGELES - "The doctor will see you now," says a Hollywood publicist as she opens a door for a reporter at Los Angeles city hall. Alone inside a conference room there is Michael Moore, who has just finished speaking at a rally outside ...
Michael Moore's faith in people
By Michael Booth / Denver Post The Michael Moore shredding machine runs around the clock in America these days. The rumpled, bellowing filmmaker is constantly vilified by the right as a socialist buffoon and by the left as a bully whose unorthodox tactics hurt rather than help the cause. Such ...
Moore's 'Sicko' Makes Washington Debut
By Ann Sanner / Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Filmmaker Michael Moore's wish list for the 2008 presidential campaign includes a candidacy by Al Gore and truly universal health care plans from the current crop of Democratic candidates. The liberal documentary maker, in Washington for the screening of his latest film ...
Moore busy getting buzz out on 'Sicko'
By Ed Bradley / Flint Journal DAVISON - The challenge of promoting another movie has begun for Michael Moore. On Thursday, the Davison-bred filmmaker flew to Chicago to tape a segment of "Oprah." On Friday night, he was to appear on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." Leno and Letterman ...
He bashed Bush before it was a pastime. Now he hits health care with ''Sicko.'' Love him or hate him, there's only one Michael Moore By Daniel Fierman / Entertainment Weekly The last time Michael Moore stood on a stage at Cannes, he held the Palme d'Or in one hand ...
Michael Moore hopes 'Sicko' disgusts you
The documentary filmmaker wants Americans to change the healthcare system. By John Horn / Los Angeles Times CANNES, FRANCE — Michael Moore and his movies have always been hard to miss. But with "Sicko," his acidic new documentary about healthcare, there's suddenly less of the filmmaker and his usual methods. ...
Michael Moore wins another round in libel case
By John Flesher / Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY -- Filmmaker Michael Moore won another round Tuesday in a court battle with the brother of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio sided with a Michigan-based federal judge who in 2005 threw out ...
With GM buyouts, Flint sees bleak times
City works hard to attract new businesses, but resurgence may be difficult Associated Press FLINT, Mich. - James Rutherford has lived here his entire life, in good times and in bad. The former mayor and police chief, now the director of the Flint Downtown Development Authority, says he doesn't expect ...
Michael Moore announces second-annual Michigan film festival
By John Flesher / Associated Press Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, who engineered a film festival last summer in this northern Michigan resort town, announced Friday that he will present the second-annual Traverse City Film Festival. To take place July 31 to Aug. 6, the festival will be two days longer ...
Moore to present 2nd film festival
Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, who engineered a film festival last summer in this northern Michigan resort town, announced Friday that he will present a second Traverse City Film Festival. To take place July 31 to Aug. 6, the festival will be two days longer ...
Ten movies that shook the world
By Barbara Vancheri / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette To quote HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey": "I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this before." The same could be said of Stanley Kubrick's visionary epic, one of the films that shook the world in 1968 and forever after. Every ...
Michael Moore announces films for Traverse City festival
By John Flesher / Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Excited movie buffs queued up Friday to buy tickets for the inaugural Traverse City Film Festival — and to meet its founder, the Oscar-winning director Michael Moore. "It's a great thing you're doing," Mimi Bruder, the first person in line, ...
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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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