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Michael Moore is the Columbo of investigative journalism. He turns up - just a normal guy from Flint, Michigan, in a trucker's cap and baggy jeans - asks a few casual questions, then, Bang, he's got you. Banker, senator, CEO, movie star, cop, judge, juror … You're an enemy of the people now. Here are a few lessons that Citizen Moore's learned on his journey from being a mildly provocative but principled political writer to the cinematic scourge of bigwigs and fat cats everywhere …
You don't have to do the thing you set out to do
Moore's 1989 film Roger & Me tries in vain to interview Roger Smith, then CEO of General Motors, whose ruthless downsizing policy ruined Moore's backwater home town. Eight years later, Canadian film-makers...
Michael Moore is the Columbo of investigative journalism. He turns up - just a normal guy from Flint, Michigan, in a trucker's cap and baggy jeans - asks a few casual questions, then, Bang, he's got you. Banker, senator, CEO, movie star, cop, judge, juror … You're an enemy of the people now. Here are a few lessons that Citizen Moore's learned on his journey from being a mildly provocative but principled political writer to the cinematic scourge of bigwigs and fat cats everywhere …
You don't have to do the thing you set out to do
Moore's 1989 film Roger & Me tries in vain to interview Roger Smith, then CEO of General Motors, whose ruthless downsizing policy ruined Moore's backwater home town. Eight years later, Canadian film-makers...
- 2/23/2010
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
Newsday (McT) -- What's the difference between Michael Moore and Fox News? Both are fair and balanced. Or craven, manipulative demagogues. It just depends on whom you ask. And you're likely to get an argument either way. As polarizing as the right's Ann Coulter or Glenn Beck, the filmmaking Moore has been the left's loudest voice and largest silhouette for about 20 years — since "Roger & Me," his satiric assault on General Motors for the closing of auto plants in Flint, Mich. And those were lean times for liberals. "He was rain in a dry desert," says documentarian Rick Caine, who, with…...
- 9/25/2009
- by By John Anderson
- PopMatters
By Matt Singer
According to the trailer of David Zucker's new comedy, "An American Carol," "America's most infamous filmmaker -- totally arrogant, completely clueless -- [has] finally gone too far." Of course, Zucker, a former liberal activist who became a "9/11 Republican," is referring to Michael Moore, the inspiration for the central character in "An American Carol," one Michael Malone (Kevin Farley), a filmmaker who's visited by three Dickensian ghosts after he demands that July 4th be abolished ("I love America. That's why it needs to be destroyed!").
Zucker's spoof is perhaps the most high-profile film to take on Moore, but it's by no means the first. In fact, in the last four years, Moore's work has inadvertently given birth to an entirely new strain of conservative filmmaking whose sole mission is to discredit him by taking issue with his documentary aesthetic, his politics, his personal success, even his physical appearance.
According to the trailer of David Zucker's new comedy, "An American Carol," "America's most infamous filmmaker -- totally arrogant, completely clueless -- [has] finally gone too far." Of course, Zucker, a former liberal activist who became a "9/11 Republican," is referring to Michael Moore, the inspiration for the central character in "An American Carol," one Michael Malone (Kevin Farley), a filmmaker who's visited by three Dickensian ghosts after he demands that July 4th be abolished ("I love America. That's why it needs to be destroyed!").
Zucker's spoof is perhaps the most high-profile film to take on Moore, but it's by no means the first. In fact, in the last four years, Moore's work has inadvertently given birth to an entirely new strain of conservative filmmaking whose sole mission is to discredit him by taking issue with his documentary aesthetic, his politics, his personal success, even his physical appearance.
- 10/7/2008
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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