Capitalism: A Love Story.

[Lord_Stewie]

Hey,

Warning: Do Not Get Politics Involved in This thread.

Quite controversial, another Moore DOCUMENTARY/FILM set to strike at the heart of Corporate America.

Thoughts on This. IMO Michael Moore tends to deliver his point on a silver plate. However, never seen anything like this Trailer for his upcoming trailer. Yes twisted but funny if you can read between the lines (metaphorically speaking).

Every Friday night I represent /Film as a guest on the BDK Movie Show on WJFK, and tonight’s show kicked off with a great little scoop about Michael Moore. Being a DC based radio station, they were definitely (once again) in the right place, at the right time.

Lucky moviegoers in a very small number of theaters in NY, LA, Chicago and DC tonight ended up playing a part in the promotions for Michael Moore’s next documentary. As Peter told you on Thursday, the teaser trailer for Moore’s as-yet untitled ‘bailout’ film was set for premiere in cinemas today. What he couldn’t tell you then was just how unusual the first teaser trailer was, and how interactive…

Perhaps the lucky cinema patrons had some inkling that something odd was going to go down tonight when, as they walked in to take their seats, they had to pass by signs telling them that they were liable to be filmed and informing them that entering the auditorium would be, in effect, giving consent for their images to be recorded and used.

The very last trailer to be screened before the movie was something of a surprise. Shosanna Dreyfuss style, a big close-up of Michael Moore appeared on the screen, addressed the audience directly, and told them the following:

Hi, I’m Michael Moore. Instead of using this time to tell you about my new movie I’d like to take a moment and ask you to join me in helping our fellow Americans. The downturn in the economy has hurt many people, people who have had no choice but to go on government assistance. Yet our welfare agencies can only do so much. That’s why I’m asking you to reach into your pockets right now and lend a hand. Ushers will be coming down the aisles to collect your donations for Citibank, Bank of America, AIG, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and a host of other needy banks and corporations. Won’t you please give generously? Now, I know what you’re thinking - I already gave at the bailout. And I know you did, but even if you’ve given in the past, give some more. It will make you feel… good.

During this, ushers really did walk out amongst the patrons with buckets in hand and wearing T-shirts with the slogan ‘Save our CEOs’. I don’t know if anybody dropped any cash in, or for that matter what Moore’s team would have done with any donated funds. Perhaps he’ll actually try and pass it on to the ailing institutions and film the ensuing events for the film? Sounds like a possible Moore move.

WARNING: DO NOT INVOLVE POLITICS IN THIS THREAD, KEEP IT ON THE FILM.

What do you think of this Trailer?.



Update: Aug 27th:

NY AND LA SPECIAL LIMITED ENGAGEMENT REVEALED

Overture Films has premiered the movie poster for Michael Moore’s next film, Capitalism: A Love Story, on Fandango. Also, Overture has annoucned that the film will have a special limited engagement in New York and Los Angeles. Details after the jump.

The poster is very much in the styles of the 1960’s, especially the font and coloring, which is somewhat reminiscent of Saul Bass’ poster design work. However, the character design is a bit too realistic and overly detailed to warrant that comparison. Head on over to Fandango to see the full poster. If you haven’t yet seen the trailer, check that out as well.

As you know, the film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in mid-September. Overture has also revealed that the film will have one week special limited engagement in New York (Lincoln Plaza, Angelika) and Los Angeles (Arclight Hollywood, The Landmark) on September 23rd, before the film hits theaters nationwide on October 2nd 2009.

“It’s got it all — lust, passion, romance, and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day.” - Michael Moore

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY tackles an issue Michael Moore has been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene far wider than Flint, Michigan. From Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan, Michael Moore will once again take filmgoers into uncharted territory.

Capitalism: A Love Story hits theaters on October 2nd 2009.

Update:

Sep, 6th:

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

Michael Moore’s latest film Capitalism: A Love Story screened at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, and the reviews and reports have begun to come in. So far the response has been very positive, a bunch of four out of five star reviews. Here is a look at the buzz from Italy:

Variety: “By returning to his roots, professional gadfly Michael Moore turns in one of his best films with Capitalism: A Love Story.” … “Unfortunately, elsewhere, Moore strives so hard to manipulate viewers’ emotions with shots of crying children and tearjerking musical choices that he’s not so much over-egging the pudding as making an omelet out of it.”

The Hollywood Reporter: “Although it’s less focused than Sicko or Fahrenheit 9/11 — whose boxoffice it should resemble — because its subject is more abstract, this is a typical Moore oeuvre: funny, often over the top and of dubious documentation, but with strongly made points that leave viewers much to ponder and debate after they walk out of the theater.” … “Simplifications are Moore?s stock-in-trade, and his documentaries are not known for their impeccable research and objectivity. But here his talent is evident in creating two hours of engrossing cinema…”

The Guardian: “Michael Moore’s latest documentary drew tumultuous applause at the Venice film festival today, suggesting that the veteran tub-thumper has lost none of his power to whip up a response. If the film finally lacks the clean, hard punch provided by the record-breaking Fahrenheit 9/11, that can only be because the crime scene is so vast and the culprits so numerous.” … “Capitalism: A Love Story is by turns crude and sentimental, impassioned and invigorating.”

Time: “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.”

ScreenDaily: “As intelligent and compulsively entertaining as his previous films” … “The conservative right will of course dismiss Moore’s elucidations as simplistic – and for the most part they would be right - yet there is a Capra-esque appeal to his pleas to redress the balance between very rich and very poor in his homeland. Moore valiantly battles the propaganda that has fused capitalism with both democracy and religion, while defending the notion of socialism which has become a curse word in the US heartland.”

InContention: “Michael Moore is this generation’s Frank Capra.By that token, Capitalism: A Love Story – an artlessly effective slice of rah-rah rhetoric more sincerely idealistic than anything the director has yet put his name to – represents Moore’s It’s a Wonderful Life.” … “The question, then, isn’t just whether Capitalism: A Love Story (a wholly meaningless title, incidentally) is a good film, but whether it really needs – or even wants – to be one. As cinema, it certainly isn’t as formally inventive or powerful as Roger & Me or Bowling for Columbine, or even as viscerally seething as Fahrenheit 9/11, but it doesn’t speak any less loudly or chidingly than those films.

AFP: “Michael Moore pulls no punches in his hard-hitting new documentary blasting “evil” capitalism” … “large doses of biting humour and a few dollops of inspiration.”

ENJOY.