BLOGTROTTER: The RAPE of AMERICA - A Michael Moore Film

Capitalism: A Love Story - Michael Moore

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Released on September 23, 2009, Moore looks at the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the U.S. economy during the time of the incoming Presidency of Obama and the outgoing Bush administration. At a press conference with its release, Moore said, "Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him."

The Filmmaker, producer, director, Michael Moore was born April 23, 1954, he is American. His films include Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story, all in the top eight, highest-grossing documentaries. Moore was born in Michigan and raised in Flint.Flint was home to many General Motors factories, where his parents and grandfather worked. His uncle was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union. Moore described his parents as "Irish Catholic Democrats.

^{After dropping out of the University where he wrote for The Michigan Times, working just a day at the General Motors plant, he started an alternative magazine The Flint Voice, which changed its name to The Michigan Voice as it grew across state. In 1986, Moore became editor of Mother Jones, a liberal political magazine and moved to California. Four months at the magazine, Moore was fired for refusing to print an article, critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua. Moore refused to run the article, believing it inaccurate, he stated, "The article was flatly wrong and the worst kind of patronizing bullshit. You would scarcely know from it that the United States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years." Moore believes he was fired, because of the publisher's refusal to allow him to cover a story on the GM plant closings in his hometown. He responded by putting laid-off GM worker Ben Hamper on the magazine's cover, leading to his dismissal. Moore sued and settled out of court for $58,000, providing him with the money for his first film, Roger & Me. He then went on to direct and produce the following films

Roger & Me
Moore first became famous for his 1989 film, Roger & Me, a documentary about what happened to Michigan after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico, where the workers were paid much less.

Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint
A short 23-minute documentary film based on the earlier feature-length film Roger & Me. The film's title refers to Rhonda Britton, who sells rabbits as either pets or meat.
Canadian Bacon
A satirical film, Canadian Bacon, which features a fictional US president engineering a fake war with Canada in order to boost his popularity. It is noted for containing a number of Canadian and American stereotypes and being Moore's only non-documentary film.
The Big One
In 1997, Moore directed The Big One, which documents the tour publicizing his book Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, in which he criticizes mass layoffs despite record corporate profits.
Bowling for Columbine
Moore's 2002 film, Bowling for Columbine, covered the culture of guns and violence in the United States, starting with the Columbine High School massacre of 1999. Bowling for Columbine won the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as the Best Foreign Film. In the US it won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It also enjoyed great commercial success being the highest-grossing mainstream-released documentary, a record later held again by Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. It was praised for illuminating a subject slighted by the mainstream media.
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11 examined the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, particularly the Bush administration's links between the families of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Fahrenheit was awarded the Palme d'Or, the top honor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival being the first documentary film to win the prize since 1956. Fahrenheit received no Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The title of the film alludes to the classic book Fahrenheit 451 about a future totalitarian state in which books are banned; according to the book, paper begins to burn at 451 degrees Fahrenheit. The pre-release subtitle of the film confirms the allusion: "The temperature at which freedom burns." At the box office, Fahrenheit 9/11 was the second highest-grossing documentary of all time, taking in over US$200 million worldwide.
Sicko
Moore directed this film about the American health care system, focusing particularly on the managed-care and pharmaceutical industries. At least four major pharmaceutical companies—Pfizer, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline—ordered their employees not to grant any interviews to Moore.The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2007, receiving a lengthy standing ovation. The film was the subject of controversy when Moore went to Cuba with chronically ill September 11th rescue workers to shoot parts of the film.The film ranked the third highest grossing documentary of all time and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

Captain Mike Across America
Moore takes a look at the politics of college students in what he calls "Bush Administration America" with this film shot during Moore's 60-city college campus tour in the months leading up to the 2004 election.The film was later re-edited by Moore into Slacker Uprising.}