Michael Moore : EXPOSED! The lies of Michael Moore. - By Christopher Hitchens. One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. How many times, in my old days at The Nation magazine, did I hear wistful and semienvious ruminations? Where was the radical Firing Line show? Who will be our Rush Limbaugh? I used privately to hope that the emphasis, if the comrades ever got around to it, would be on the first of those and not the second. But the meetings themselves were so mind-numbing and lugubrious that I thought the danger of success on either front was infinitely slight.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair. His latest book, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship, is out in paperback. Nonetheless, it seems that an answer to this long-felt need is finally beginning to emerge. 6) The American lives lost in Afghanistan have been wasted. WikiLeaks and the Global Future of Free Speech. Ecuador has acted in accordance with important principles of international human rights. Indeed, nothing could demonstrate the appropriateness of Ecuador’s action more than the British government’s threat to violate a sacrosanct principle of diplomatic relations and invade the embassy to arrest Mr. Assange. Since WikiLeaks’ founding, it has revealed the “Collateral Murder” footage that shows the seemingly indiscriminate killing of Baghdad civilians by a United States Apache attack helicopter; further fine-grained detail about the true face of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; United States collusion with Yemen’s dictatorship to conceal our responsibility for bombing strikes there; the Obama administration’s pressure on other nations not to prosecute Bush-era officials for torture; and much more.
Predictably, the response from those who would prefer that Americans remain in the dark has been ferocious. All such allegations must be thoroughly investigated before Mr. Mr. If Mr. Michael Moore. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Jeunesse et engagement politique[modifier | modifier le code] À dix-huit ans, il est élu au conseil d'administration de son école (Davison High School), où il devient l'un des plus jeunes Américains à accéder à une fonction publique. Il se fait le porte-parole des étudiants. Abandonnant ses études de journalisme sur le campus régional de Flint de l'Université du Michigan, il fonde à vingt-deux ans le Flint Voice, un journal alternatif qu'il dirige pendant dix ans. Ses premiers engagements politiques sont à l'extrême gauche américaine.
Débuts dans le cinéma[modifier | modifier le code] The Awful Truth[modifier | modifier le code] Campagnes[modifier | modifier le code] Consécration au cinéma[modifier | modifier le code] Bowling for Columbine[modifier | modifier le code] En 2002, Bowling for Columbine est un succès international (Prix du 55e Festival de Cannes). Fahrenheit 9/11[modifier | modifier le code] SiCKO[modifier | modifier le code] Au cinéma. Michael Moore. Moore's written and cinematic works criticize globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton[7] and George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism. Early life[edit] Moore was born in Flint, Michigan and raised in Davison, a suburb of Flint, by parents Veronica (née Wall), a secretary, and Frank Moore, an automotive assembly-line worker.[8][9][10] At that time, the city of Flint was home to many General Motors factories, where his parents and grandfather worked.
His uncle LaVerne was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and participated in the Flint Sit-Down Strike.[11] Career[edit] After four months at Mother Jones, Moore was fired. Directing/producing[edit] Roger & Me Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (1992) is a short (23-minute) documentary film that was aired on PBS. Canadian Bacon In 1997, Moore directed The Big One, which documents the tour publicizing his book Downsize This! Sicko. Occupy Wall Street: Michael Moore states, "We oppose the way our economy is structured" Michael Moore on support of Occupy Wall Street protest. Michael Moore (mmflint) Michael Moore's SLACKER UPRISING. Fahrenheit 9/11. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and director and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W.
Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media. The film is the highest grossing documentary of all time. In the film, Moore contends that American corporate media were "cheerleaders" for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and did not provide an accurate or objective analysis of the rationale for the war or the resulting casualties there. The film generated intense controversy, including disputes over its accuracy. The film debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival in the documentary film category and received a 20 minute standing ovation, among the longest standing ovations in the festival's history. The film was also awarded the Palme d'Or,[2] the festival's highest award. Financing, pre-release, and distribution[edit] Synopsis[edit] The film then segues into the September 11 attacks.
DVD release[edit] Capitalism a love story. Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general.
Topics covered include Wall Street's "casino mentality", for-profit prisons, Goldman Sachs' influence in Washington, D.C., the poverty-level wages of many workers, the large wave of home foreclosures, corporate-owned life insurance, and the consequences of "runaway greed".[2] The film also features a religious component where Moore examines whether or not capitalism is a sin and if Jesus would be a capitalist,[3] in order to shine light on the ideological contradictions among evangelical conservatives who support free market ideals. The film was widely released to the public in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009. Reviews were generally positive. Synopsis[edit] Production[edit]
Sicko. Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. Sicko was made on a budget of approximately $9 million,[3] and grossed $24.5 million theatrically in the United States.[4] This box office take exceeded the official expectation of The Weinstein Company, which had hoped for a gross in line with Bowling for Columbine's $21.5 million US box office gross.[5] Synopsis[edit] According to Sicko, almost fifty million Americans are uninsured while the remainder, who are covered, are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. In Canada, Moore describes the case of Tommy Douglas, who was voted the greatest Canadian in 2004 for his contributions to the Canadian health system.
Release[edit] Welcome to MichaelMoore.com. Roger & Me. Synopsis[edit] Michael Moore begins by introducing himself and his family through 8 mm archival home movies; he describes himself as "kind of a strange child", the Irish American Catholic middle-class son of a General Motors employee assembling AC spark plugs.
Moore chronicles how GM had previously defined his childhood in Flint, Michigan, and how the company was the primary economic and social hub of the town. He points out that Flint is the place where the Flint Sit-Down Strike occurred, resulting in the birth of the United Auto Workers. He reveals that his heroes were the Flint natives who had escaped the life in GM's factories, including "Flint's most famous native son," game show host Bob Eubanks. From there, Moore begins to explore the emotional impact of the plant closings on his friends. He interviews Ben Hamper, an auto worker who suffered a nervous breakdown on the assembly line and is residing at a mental health facility. History[edit] Criticism[edit] See also[edit]