VIDEO UNDERGROUND RETURNS TO OMNI FEBRUARY 13, 2011.
OUR FIRST FILM WILL BE MICHAEL MOORE’S CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY on Sunday, February 13, 7pm. For information about the film google the title and see essay below. DISCUSSION WILL FOLLOW LED BY JOHN GRAY, GREEN CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE.
We offer two encompassing, connected themes in 2011 about USA today:
I. A. THE EMPIRE/CORPORATE CAPITALISM/PENTAGON-MILITARISM-SECRECY-SURVEILLANCE/EXECUTIVE WHITE HOUSE/CONGRESS/CORPORATE MEDIA/GLOBAL WARMING COMPLEX AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE US AND WORLD.
B. NATIONAL AND LOCAL RESPONSES
II. A. THE US ECONOMIC/ENERGY SYSTEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES TO THE ENVIRONMENT BY C02, WARMING, EXTREME WEATHER, MELTING ICE, RISING SEAS, FLOODING AND POLLUTED RIVERS.
B. NATIONAL AND LOCAL RESPONSES
The EMPIRE films will be shown every 2nd Sunday at 7pm. Dick Bennett Coordinator, jbennet@uark.edu, 442-4600.
The ENVIRONMENT films every 4th Sunday at 7pm. David Orr Coordinator.
If a film is about local affairs, we will try in publicity and discussion to connect with national and international contexts; if about national and international, we’ll connect with local. Think global, act local, think local, act global.
IF YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT, OUTSTANDING FILM YOU WANT TO SHOW, contact Dick or David.
Capitalism: A Love Story
If Michael Moore's latest documentary lacks the clean punch of his best-known work, it can only be because the crime scene is so vast, writes Xan Brooks at the Venice film festival
COMMENTARY
Xan Brooks guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 September 2009 16.47 BST
Michael Moore at Goldman Sachs in Capitalism: A Love Story. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
The bankrobbers caught on CCTV at the start of Capitalism: A Love Story are a forlorn and feeble bunch. We see a bedraggled old man in a Hawaiian shirt, and what looks to be a 12-year-old boy wearing a balaclava. For all their flailing efforts, they've got nothing on the real crooks: the banking CEOs who recently absconded with $700bn of public money, no strings attached. That's what's known as a clean getaway.
1. Capitalism: A Love Story
2. Production year: 2009
3. Country: USA
4. Cert (UK): 12A
5. Runtime: 127 mins
6. Directors: Michael Moore
7. Cast: Michael Moore
8. More on this film
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.
Undeterred, Moore jabs his finger at everyone from Reagan to Bush Jr, Hank Paulson to Alan Greenspan. He drags the viewer through a thicket of insurance scams, sub-prime bubbles and derivative trading so wilfully obfuscatory that even the experts can't explain how it works.
The big villain, of course, is capitalism itself, which the film paints as a wily old philanderer intent on lining the pockets of the few at the expense of the many. America, enthuses a leaked Citibank report, is now a modern-day "plutonomy" where the top 1% of the population control 95% of the wealth. Does Barack Obama's election spell an end to all this? The director has his doubts, pointing out that Goldman Sachs – depicted here as the principal agent of wickedness – was the largest private contributor to the Obama campaign.
Capitalism: A Love Story is by turns crude and sentimental, impassioned and invigorating. It posits a simple moral universe inhabited by good little guys and evil big ones, yet the basic thrust of its argument proves hard to resist.
Crucially, Moore (or at least his researchers) has done a fine job in ferreting out the human stories behind the headlines. None of these is so horrifyingly absurd as the tale of the privatised youth detention centre in Pennsylvania, run with the help of a crooked local judge who railroaded kids through his court for a cut of the profits. Some 6,500 children were later found to have been wrongly convicted for such minor infractions as smoking pot and "throwing a piece of steak at my mom's boyfriend". The subsequent bill for their incarceration went directly to the taxpayer.
Moore's conclusion? That capitalism is both un-Christian and un-American, an evil that deserves not regulation but elimination. No doubt he had concluded all this anyway, well in advance of making the film, but no matter. There is something energising – even moving – about the sight of him setting out to prove it all over again. Like some shambling Columbo, he amasses the evidence, takes witness statements from the victims and then starts doorstepping the guilty parties.
"I need some advice!" Moore shouts to some hastening Wall Street trader who has just left his office. "Don't make any more movies!" the man shoots back. Moore chuckles at that, but the last laugh is his. This, more than any other, is the movie they will wish he had never embarked on.
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• Blog: Will Capitalism: A Love Story be an affair to remember?
• Video: Michael Moore: 'Democracy is not a spectator sport'
• Gallery: Venice so far
• Review: The Road
• Viggo Mortensen: The Road is 'love story at heart'
• Herzog and Ferrara fall out over Bad Lieutenant remake
• Michael Moore, Werner Herzog and Steven Soderbergh set for Venice film festival
• Review: Baaria
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• 17 Sep 2009
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1. Capitalism: A Love Story | MichaelMoore.com
- 6:34am
On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece "Roger & Me," Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" comes home to the issue he's been ...
Dvd extras - Sample scenes - Do something
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2. Videos for Capitalism: A Love Story
TRAILER: Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love ...
2 min - Aug 20, 2009
Uploaded by mmflint
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Capitalism : A Love Story - Official Teaser
1 min - Jun 15, 2009
Uploaded by trailers
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3. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) - IMDb
4. Rating: 7.4/10 - from 13,402 users
5. Directed by Michael Moore. Starring Thora Birch, Jimmy Carter, John McCain. Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default... See full summary »
6. Soundtracks - Plot Summary - User reviews - Trivia
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8. Capitalism: A Love Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the financial crisis of ...
Synopsis - Production - Release - Awards and honors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism:_A_Love_Story - Cached
9. Capitalism: A Love Story Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
10. Rating: 75% - 173 reviews
11. Directed by Michael Moore. Starring Michael Moore. Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The...
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12. Capitalism: A Love Story | Watch Free Documentary Online
Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on ...
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13. Capitalism: A Love Story | Film review | Film | The Guardian
Sep 6, 2009 ... Xan Brooks: If Michael Moore's latest lacks the clean punch of past work, it can only be because the crime scene is so vast.
www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/.../capitalism-love-story-review - Cached - Similar
14. Amazon.com: Capitalism: A Love Story: Michael Moore, Michael Moore ...
15. 217 reviews - $17.49 - In stock
16. Michael Moore's didactic documentary style is actually a source of inspiration in Capitalism: A Love Story. This film, which explores the history of ...
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17. Netflix - Watch Capitalism: A Love Story
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18. Capitalism: a Love Story - Movie Trailers - iTunes
Oct 2, 2009 ... Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore's new documentary, will be release by Overture Films on October 2, 2009. Capitalism will explore the ...
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP. Here are some of the tasks developed with our Book Forums:
Coordinator (choose topic, create bibliography, find panelists and facilitators, read the panelists’ books):
Moderator (welcome audience, intro. speaker, panelists, assist audience participation):
Guest to lead discussion:
Publicity: The event, which only a few people attend, offers an opportunity to contact thousands of people through the media and other methods. See Dick’s “OMNI Publicity Guide.”
News Release (traditional)(send to Dick’s list in “OMNI Publicity Guide,” twice to several):
News Release (electronic)
Flyer and poster (4 copies of the flyer printed on a single sheet is cheap and handy):
Distribution of flyer (handing around town the small flyer, finding others to help; putting up poster around town):
VIDEO UNDERGROUND RETURNS TO OMNI FEBRUARY 13, 2011.
OUR FIRST FILM WILL BE MICHAEL MOORE’S CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY on Sunday, February 13, 7pm. For information about the film google the title and see essay below. DISCUSSION WILL FOLLOW LED BY JOHN GRAY, GREEN CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE.
We offer two encompassing, connected themes in 2011 about USA today:
I. A. THE EMPIRE/CORPORATE CAPITALISM/PENTAGON-MILITARISM-SECRECY-SURVEILLANCE/EXECUTIVE WHITE HOUSE/CONGRESS/CORPORATE MEDIA/GLOBAL WARMING COMPLEX AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE US AND WORLD.
B. NATIONAL AND LOCAL RESPONSES
II. A. THE US ECONOMIC/ENERGY SYSTEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES TO THE ENVIRONMENT BY C02, WARMING, EXTREME WEATHER, MELTING ICE, RISING SEAS, FLOODING AND POLLUTED RIVERS.
B. NATIONAL AND LOCAL RESPONSES
The EMPIRE films will be shown every 2nd Sunday at 7pm. Dick Bennett Coordinator, jbennet@uark.edu, 442-4600.
The ENVIRONMENT films every 4th Sunday at 7pm. David Orr Coordinator.
If a film is about local affairs, we will try in publicity and discussion to connect with national and international contexts; if about national and international, we’ll connect with local. Think global, act local, think local, act global.
IF YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT, OUTSTANDING FILM YOU WANT TO SHOW, contact Dick or David.
Capitalism: A Love Story
If Michael Moore's latest documentary lacks the clean punch of his best-known work, it can only be because the crime scene is so vast, writes Xan Brooks at the Venice film festival
COMMENTARY
Xan Brooks guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 September 2009 16.47 BST
Michael Moore at Goldman Sachs in Capitalism: A Love Story. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
The bankrobbers caught on CCTV at the start of Capitalism: A Love Story are a forlorn and feeble bunch. We see a bedraggled old man in a Hawaiian shirt, and what looks to be a 12-year-old boy wearing a balaclava. For all their flailing efforts, they've got nothing on the real crooks: the banking CEOs who recently absconded with $700bn of public money, no strings attached. That's what's known as a clean getaway.
1. Capitalism: A Love Story
2. Production year: 2009
3. Country: USA
4. Cert (UK): 12A
5. Runtime: 127 mins
6. Directors: Michael Moore
7. Cast: Michael Moore
8. More on this film
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.
Undeterred, Moore jabs his finger at everyone from Reagan to Bush Jr, Hank Paulson to Alan Greenspan. He drags the viewer through a thicket of insurance scams, sub-prime bubbles and derivative trading so wilfully obfuscatory that even the experts can't explain how it works.
The big villain, of course, is capitalism itself, which the film paints as a wily old philanderer intent on lining the pockets of the few at the expense of the many. America, enthuses a leaked Citibank report, is now a modern-day "plutonomy" where the top 1% of the population control 95% of the wealth. Does Barack Obama's election spell an end to all this? The director has his doubts, pointing out that Goldman Sachs – depicted here as the principal agent of wickedness – was the largest private contributor to the Obama campaign.
Capitalism: A Love Story is by turns crude and sentimental, impassioned and invigorating. It posits a simple moral universe inhabited by good little guys and evil big ones, yet the basic thrust of its argument proves hard to resist.
Crucially, Moore (or at least his researchers) has done a fine job in ferreting out the human stories behind the headlines. None of these is so horrifyingly absurd as the tale of the privatised youth detention centre in Pennsylvania, run with the help of a crooked local judge who railroaded kids through his court for a cut of the profits. Some 6,500 children were later found to have been wrongly convicted for such minor infractions as smoking pot and "throwing a piece of steak at my mom's boyfriend". The subsequent bill for their incarceration went directly to the taxpayer.
Moore's conclusion? That capitalism is both un-Christian and un-American, an evil that deserves not regulation but elimination. No doubt he had concluded all this anyway, well in advance of making the film, but no matter. There is something energising – even moving – about the sight of him setting out to prove it all over again. Like some shambling Columbo, he amasses the evidence, takes witness statements from the victims and then starts doorstepping the guilty parties.
"I need some advice!" Moore shouts to some hastening Wall Street trader who has just left his office. "Don't make any more movies!" the man shoots back. Moore chuckles at that, but the last laugh is his. This, more than any other, is the movie they will wish he had never embarked on.
• Printable version
• Send to a friend
• Share
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Film
• Michael Moore •
• Venice film festival
More reviews
•
News: Michael Moore: 'Americans now think more like me'
The controversial director's latest film spotlights the causes behind the bailout of the US banking system
• Blog: Will Capitalism: A Love Story be an affair to remember?
• Video: Michael Moore: 'Democracy is not a spectator sport'
• Gallery: Venice so far
• Review: The Road
• Viggo Mortensen: The Road is 'love story at heart'
• Herzog and Ferrara fall out over Bad Lieutenant remake
• Michael Moore, Werner Herzog and Steven Soderbergh set for Venice film festival
• Review: Baaria
Related
• 7 Sep 2009
Michael Moore: 'Democracy is not a spectator sport'
• 17 Sep 2009
Moore's attack on US newspaper publishers is fine - but what about Britain?
• 30 Jan 2010
'Capitalism is evil … you have to eliminate it'
• 30 Jul 2009
Herzog's Bad Lieutenant joins Venice film festival contenders
• Printable version
• Send to a friend
• Share
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• Contact us
• Article history
FIRST PAGE OF GOOGLE ENTRIES
1. Capitalism: A Love Story | MichaelMoore.com
- 6:34am
On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece "Roger & Me," Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" comes home to the issue he's been ...
Dvd extras - Sample scenes - Do something
www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/capitalism-love-story - Cached - Similar
►
2. Videos for Capitalism: A Love Story
TRAILER: Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love ...
2 min - Aug 20, 2009
Uploaded by mmflint
youtube.com
Capitalism : A Love Story - Official Teaser
1 min - Jun 15, 2009
Uploaded by trailers
youtube.com
3. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) - IMDb
4. Rating: 7.4/10 - from 13,402 users
5. Directed by Michael Moore. Starring Thora Birch, Jimmy Carter, John McCain. Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default... See full summary »
6. Soundtracks - Plot Summary - User reviews - Trivia
7. www.imdb.com/title/tt1232207/ - Cached - Similar
8. Capitalism: A Love Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the financial crisis of ...
Synopsis - Production - Release - Awards and honors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism:_A_Love_Story - Cached
9. Capitalism: A Love Story Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
10. Rating: 75% - 173 reviews
11. Directed by Michael Moore. Starring Michael Moore. Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The...
www.rottentomatoes.com/.../capitalism_a_love_story/ - Cached - Similar - Add to iGoogle
12. Capitalism: A Love Story | Watch Free Documentary Online
Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on ...
topdocumentaryfilms.com/capitalism-love-story/ - Cached
13. Capitalism: A Love Story | Film review | Film | The Guardian
Sep 6, 2009 ... Xan Brooks: If Michael Moore's latest lacks the clean punch of past work, it can only be because the crime scene is so vast.
www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/.../capitalism-love-story-review - Cached - Similar
14. Amazon.com: Capitalism: A Love Story: Michael Moore, Michael Moore ...
15. 217 reviews - $17.49 - In stock
16. Michael Moore's didactic documentary style is actually a source of inspiration in Capitalism: A Love Story. This film, which explores the history of ...
www.amazon.com › Movies & TV › Documentary › Politics - Cached - Similar
17. Netflix - Watch Capitalism: A Love Story
Watch Capitalism: A Love Story. Watch Unlimited Movies and TV Shows. No Late Fees. Start Your Netflix Free Trial.
www.netflix.com/Movie/Capitalism-A-Love-Story/70122701 - Cached
18. Capitalism: a Love Story - Movie Trailers - iTunes
Oct 2, 2009 ... Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore's new documentary, will be release by Overture Films on October 2, 2009. Capitalism will explore the ...
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP. Here are some of the tasks developed with our Book Forums:
Coordinator (choose topic, create bibliography, find panelists and facilitators, read the panelists’ books):
Moderator (welcome audience, intro. speaker, panelists, assist audience participation):
Guest to lead discussion:
Publicity: The event, which only a few people attend, offers an opportunity to contact thousands of people through the media and other methods. See Dick’s “OMNI Publicity Guide.”
News Release (traditional)(send to Dick’s list in “OMNI Publicity Guide,” twice to several):
News Release (electronic)
Flyer and poster (4 copies of the flyer printed on a single sheet is cheap and handy):
Distribution of flyer (handing around town the small flyer, finding others to help; putting up poster around town):
Video (film and edit the video, arrange for showing on CAT):
Photos (photo speaker/panelists and audience, send to Karen Idlet, archivist):
Peace Poles (get poles from Steven, bring to event and sell for $5 and up):
Shirts (located in office to left in cardboard box):
Greeter (welcome audience; get names, email, phone [you will have to ask some individually even following the event, because most people arrive about the same time just preceding the starting time]; make available and announce membership form and interest form; actively solicit contribution and have hat/basket available at end): Refreshments (food and drink, paper plates if necessary, napkins, cups):
Follow-up (thank all participants; contact selected audience to encourage etc.; copy to Gladys to add to list-serve and data base; coordinator or moderator may have to do this).
Video (film and edit the video, arrange for showing on CAT):
Photos (photo speaker/panelists and audience, send to Karen Idlet, archivist):
Peace Poles (get poles from Steven, bring to event and sell for $5 and up):
Shirts (located in office to left in cardboard box):
Greeter (welcome audience; get names, email, phone [you will have to ask some individually even following the event, because most people arrive about the same time just preceding the starting time]; make available and announce membership form and interest form; actively solicit contribution and have hat/basket available at end): Refreshments (food and drink, paper plates if necessary, napkins, cups):
Follow-up (thank all participants; contact selected audience to encourage etc.; copy to Gladys to add to list-serve and data base; coordinator or moderator may have to do this).
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