Michael Moore makes first Venice premiere

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Michael Moore says his film "Capitalism: A Love Story" is dedicated to "good people ... who've had their lives ruined" by the quest for profit.

Moore's latest film features many whose lives have been shattered by a corporate environment where the drive for profit is a priority over the workers' best interest.

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The movie won was warmly received at a press showing Saturday evening and won positive reviews.

Moore said Sunday he was "personally affected by good people who struggle, who work hard and who've had their lives ruined by decisions that are made by people who do not have their best interest at heart."


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"Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we've allowed Wall Street to do this and they've played with people's money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives," Moore told an audience in Venice.

"They need more than just regulation. We need to structure ourselves differently in order to create finance and money, support for jobs, businesses, etc, to keep a healthy economy going."

[orpupilofnature57]

1. A Champion against ignorance ,which is why he's so hated.

[wroberts189]

7. Yep +1

[bugfragged]

2. Watching a Michael Moore film with my Conservative father...

...actually made him admit that his party is in the pockets of greedy corporations. In spite of that, he still believes that the Republicans are the lesser of the two evils, but it's a start.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. I find it amazing that people in the lower middle class and working

poor would believe the republican party has their best interest at heart. The people who vote for them really vote just for social issues.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. No us Liberal ,Lower middle class and working poor ,Cause we bite the coins

and the republican coins are counterfeit.

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4. Michael Moore Premieres In Venice To Great Reviews

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/06/michael-moore-premieres-i_n_278343.html

Michael Moore's says his film "Capitalism: A Love Story" is dedicated to "good people ... who've had their lives ruined" by the quest for profit.

After many a successful debut at Cannes, Moore premieres the film Sunday in his first appearance at the Venice Film Festival. The movie won was warmly received at a press showing Saturday evening and won positive reviews. Variety called it one of Moore's "best pics."

"I am personally affected by good people who struggle, who work hard and who've had their lives ruined by decisions that are made by people who do not have their best interest at heart, but who have the best interest of the bottom line, of the company, at heart," Moore told reporters Sunday.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Big fan; have met him a number of times.

Spent the evening with him in Flint when "Roger & Me" premiered in New York, waiting for the reviews to be faxed. Just the two of us. He was obviously not famous then. Great stuff when the reviews came in and hailed the movie. Then, I have talked to him in Traverse City, MI a couple times. He has done great things in that community, notably the film festival.

A nicer guy you will never meet. I'm a fan, and don't bother to criticize him to me. He has done great work in this country, and I thank him for it.

[wroberts189]

8. Next time you see him.. Say Hi for us supporters at DU :) nt

[Faygo Kid]

9. Will do, next time I get to TC.

He actually lives in Alden, east of TC. But he's in town all the time. Wish I was, too, but I only get there a few times a year, until I retire. But that's probably 8 years away. Interestingly, Iron Chef Mario Batali also has a place in the area, and he loves it there.

With good reason.

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10. With Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore Goes For Broke

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1920771,00.html

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." So wrote Thomas Jefferson to a friend in 1816. Now Michael Moore, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 took on the U.S. Army, and the entire military-executive-industrial establishment, brings his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, to the Venice Film Festival. The land of Macchiavelli and the Medici is the perfect setting for Moore's nonfiction tragicomedy of greed and chicanery on Wall Street, in Washington, D.C., and through the entire economic apparatus. The movie will have its world premiere here tonight, before playing the Toronto Film Festival next week, opening Sept. 23 in New York and Los Angeles and achieving wide release Oct. 2.

Writing on his web site, Moore proclaimed, "The director of the festival (Marco Mueller)said that our movie was 'incredibly symphonic' and that he was moved by its epic nature. Jeez, these Italians! Everything's an opera to them!" The movie is not opera so much as impassioned journalism — a broadside fired at the good ship Free Enterprise, with the hope of altering its course, and dislodging the pirates who have seized it.

Capitalism: A Love Story does not quite measure up to Moore's Sicko in its cumulative power, and it is unlikely to equal Fahrenheit 9/11 in political impact. In many ways, though, this is Moore's magnum opus: the grandest statement of his career-long belief that big business is screwing the hard-working little guy while government connives in the atrocity. As he loudly tried to confront General Motors CEO Roger Smith in Roger & Me in 1989, and pleaded through a bull horn to get officials at Guantanamo to give medical treatment to surviving victims of 9/11, so in Capitalism he attempts to make a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, and puts tape around the New York Stock Exchange building, declaring it a crime scene.
(See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis.)

Moore's admirers and detractors alike will recognize his methods in the new film: brisk, pointed synopses of complicated issues (though even a Harvard professor has trouble describing what a derivative is); sad tales of working-class families evicted from their homes because their mortgage rates ballooned; a snowbank of statistics, such as that worker productivity has increased by 45% since 1980 while average real income is stagnant; and pert clips ranging from 1950s instructional films to that YouTube favorite, "Cat Flushing a Toilet Music Video." The material is, as always in Moore movies, efficiently and amusingly marshaled to serve the larger theme: that the establishment thrives by cheating ordinary Americans.

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11. The premiere in Venice was a smash hit. I am blown away.

The premiere in Venice was a smash hit. I am blown away. Posted a bunch of great reviews on my website:
http://twitter.com/MMFlint


AP: 'Warmly Received' | Variety: 'Returning to His Roots, One of His Best Films'
Time: 'Moore's Magnum Opus' | Bloomberg: 'Scathing, Effective and Hilarious'
The Independent: 'Rousing and Entertaining' | Guardian: 'Tumultuous Applause'
Dedicated to "good people who struggle, who work hard and who've had their lives ruined by
decisions that are made by people who do not have their best interest at heart."

http://www.michaelmoore.com/