Michael Moore Articles

Errol Morris’ THE THIN BLUE LINE: Biggest Oscar Snubs #7a Michael Moore’s Roger & Me was attacked in some quarters for distorting facts so as to fit them into Moore’s political agenda. In The New Yorker, for instance, Pauline Kael wrote: "I’ve heard it said that Michael Moore’s muckraking documentary Roger & Me is scathing and Voltairean. I’ve read that Michael Moore is ‘a satirist [...]

Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Fahrenheit 9/11 First, filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof are jailed in Iran. Now, ready for the holiday season’s prime-time comes Michael Moore vs. the George W. Bush administration. Or rather, the George W. Bush administration vs. Michael Moore, courtesy of Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks. Just recently, Moore wrote a lengthy post at michaelmoore.com in which he discusses a WikiLeaks cable [...]

Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story (above) and Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s 2009 Best Documentary Shot Academy Award nominee The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant will be screened as the final installment in Part One of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 29th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, November 17, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in [...]

Emilie de Ravin, Robert Pattinson, Remember Me (top); James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Avatar (middle); Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Spread (bottom) Singer Lady Gaga, actor Robert Pattinson, artist Banksy, Apple entrepreneur Steve Jobs, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey, actor-tweeter Ashton Kutcher, talk show host Conan O’Brien, artist Zaha Hadid, filmmaker James Cameron, and Nelson Mandela’s wife Graça Machel have all been included [...]