Oscar winning filmmaker, Michael Moore, returns with a scathing new documentary “Capitalism A Love Story” which examines the economy and corporate greed. Michael Moore focuses on making comparisons to the economic demise of his beloved hometown of Flint Michigan. We recommend the film to anyone who wants to learn more about the corporate bailout. This is a Michael Moore film so expect to see the filmmaker starring as himself while he tries to enter the GM offices and asks financial institutions to give money back to the taxpayers.
The film is now playing in theaters in NY and LA. Opens nationwide in theaters on October 2nd. We also recommend Coco Before Chanel starring French starlet Audrey Tatou about the Fashion icon. Binside TV asked star Audrey Tatou about the Oscar buzz for the film at the NY Premiere at the Paris Theater. The actress blushed and was modest when she replied that she wasn’t thinking about Oscar but was focused on her performance. We love everything that Audrey Tatou does as a character actress. Tatou won our hearts in Amelie, seduced us as golddigging tempress in “Priceless” and broke our hearts in “Dirty Pretty Things”. We definitely see Oscar in her future.
Film buffs can rejoice at the news that the New York Film festival begins on September 25th. The 47th festival features Lee Daniels’ Precious which is collecting top prizes on the festival circuit after it won at Sundance, screening at Cannes and snagged a trophy at the Toronto Film Festival. Congrats to Lee Daniels. We are also excited about Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces starring Penelope Cruz. Click here for the latest festival news and screening schedules.
The remake of 80’s hit Fame starring Naturi Naughton and a fresh faced cast is also out now.
TRAILER: Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ – OPENS NATIONWIDE OCTOBER 2nd!
In a sense, “Capitalism” comes by its wide-ranging, scattershot approach naturally. After all, this is a heck of a big subject: Just ask Karl Marx, who spent 18 years researching and writing his multi-volume “Das Kapital.” So it’s perhaps inevitable because of the ton of territory “Capitalism” covers that this film ends up as the sum of its parts, nothing more.
That said, Moore’s scattershot is a lot more interesting than some filmmakers’ focus, and many of those individual parts are classic. For one thing, Moore retains the instincts of a shrewd stand-up comedian — the astonished, baffled looks he often wears are a case in point, as is his decision to include under the rubric of “When did Jesus become a capitalist?” the dubbing of a section of a biblical epic with free-market platitudes.
And Moore has not lost his zest for confrontational antics. He asks New York financial workers to explain derivatives, drives an armored car up to AIG corporate headquarters and demands the company return federal bailout funds, even surrounds all of Wall Street with yellow “crime scene” tape to emphasize his low opinion of the area’s activities.
One of the things that is new about “Capitalism” is an emphasis on the filmmaker’s personal life. He talks about how, inspired by Daniel Berrigan, he wanted to be an activist priest, and he goes with his dad to the site of the former AC spark plug plant in Flint, Mich., — now a vacant lot — where his father spent satisfying decades as a union-protected assembly-line worker.
The main point Moore wants to make, the thing that drives him craziest, is his notion that capitalism, far from being a system that rewards excellence, is a scheme set up to make a profit on absolutely anything. He fears it has in recent decades turned American society into a culture that says money is the only value, and he has a number of cases he wants to use to make his point. These include:
* The scandal surrounding a for-profit juvenile detention center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in which two judges got millions of dollars in kickbacks from the owners for sending more than a thousand juveniles to the establishment.
* The little-noticed portion of the congressional testimony of Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, the US Airways pilot who miraculously landed his plane on New York’s Hudson River, who told legislators that his pay has been cut 40% in recent years and his pension terminated.
* The strategy of major firms to take out life insurance policies on their employees — known in the trade as “dead peasant insurance” — that pays off to the companies, not to the employees’ survivors.
Though he started on “Capitalism” before last year’s Wall Street meltdown, Moore delves into that collapse as well. While another documentary, Leslie Cockburn’s “American Casino,” does a better job with the questions surrounding massive housing foreclosures, Moore’s film, aided by strong statements from Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), raises questions about the nature of the multibillion-dollar government bailout.
At the end of the day, perhaps the most startling thing about “Capitalism” is that Moore stands revealed not as some pointy-headed socialist but as an unreconstructed New Deal Democrat who admires Franklin D. Roosevelt, believes in increased democracy and opportunity, and feels that the decades-long weakening of unions has fatally weakened America. The fact that this will be a controversial stance says as much about today’s political culture as it does about Moore’s place in it. [source]
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