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Salon
February 24, 2017
The investment banker turned filmmaker, who lives in New York, has styled himself as a satirist, something like a conservative Michael Moore.
Yahoo Movies (blog)
February 22, 2017
"Essentially, the Academy has done an almost flawless job over recent years of not nominating or honoring the best docs," critic Roger Ebert complained in 2002, citing the snub of 1994's Hoop Dreams and Moore's 1989 directorial debut Roger & Me.
Bright Lights Film Journal (blog)
February 9, 2017
As a matter of fact, historically, even documentaries without any significant access whatsoever have had an enormous impact on the form: Michael Moore's mold-breaking Roger & Me, for example, took the filmmaker's inability to get a sit-down with ...
moviepilot.com
February 3, 2017
Roger & Me explores the closing of a significant General Motors plant in Moore's home town of Flint, Michigan (Yes, the very same).
Dallas Voice
February 2, 2017
This quarter's "Viewers' Choice" film is a luxurious classic from Alfred Hitchcock, with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. March 28: Roger & Me. It's a good time to revisit documentarian Michael Moore's first film, about his quest for a meeting with the head ...
Gazette Review
January 5, 2017
Moore released his debut documentary Roger & Me in 1989. The documentary was a major success on every level, which was very impressive when you consider the fact that it was his film debut.
MLive.com
December 30, 2016
By the time Michael Moore documented the ensuing crime and poverty in "Roger & Me," Flint has become a cautionary tale of what happens when a city relies on one industry for survival.
RollingStone.com
December 14, 2016
It came a time when documentaries were beginning to attract more mainstream attention - especially Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line, Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning and Michael Moore's Roger & Me - and Berlinger and Sinofsky would go on to inspire ...
Cleveland Scene Weekly
December 12, 2016
A town of about 100,000 located just north of Detroit, Flint slipped into a deep depression after General Motors closed its plants in the 1980s.
NRC
November 16, 2016
Akelig profetisch: eigenlijk zou IDFA Moores debuut Roger & Me uit 1989 ergens moeten programmeren. Over hoe General Motors hardvochtig de fabriek sloot die zijn geboortestad Flint, Michigan voedde. IDFA heeft dit jaar wel een boeiende visueleÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
November 13, 2016
The doorman paid him the courtesy of phoning upstairs with the request, but the answer was no. Moore, who won fame by dogging then-General Motors CEO Roger Smith in the documentary "Roger & Me" in 1989, left the doorman a note reading: "Mr. Trump.
Deadline
November 13, 2016
... this afternoon, Michael Moore, whose anti-Donald doc Michael Moore in Trumpland was an October Surprise that couldn't compete with the FBI's, was turned away from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, with press pool reports saying he left a Roger & Me-typeÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
November 13, 2016
The doorman paid him the courtesy of phoning upstairs with the request, but the answer was no. Moore, who won fame by dogging then-General Motors CEO Roger Smith in the documentary "Roger & Me" in 1989, left the doorman a note reading: "Mr. Trump.
Tampabay.com
November 11, 2016
Although his promise to restore the glory days of building cars and pouring steel sometimes made him sound like a guy who learned about past-their-prime factory towns by watching Roger & Me and listening to Born in the U.S.A., he tapped into a still ...
Los Angeles Times
November 11, 2016
The doorman paid him the courtesy of phoning upstairs with the request, but the answer was no. Moore, who won fame by dogging then-General Motors CEO Roger Smith in the documentary "Roger & Me" in 1989, left the doorman a note reading: "Mr. Trump.
Billboard
November 10, 2016
Well, don't forget Moore's debut film, Roger & Me -- Moore comes from Flint, MI, which means that unlike many political commentators from wealthy, elite backgrounds, he knows and understands the frustrations of the Midwestern middle class reeling from ...
The Boston Globe
November 8, 2016
Modeled in part after "Roger & Me," in which filmmaker Michael Moore tried to land an audience with the job-cutting CEO of General Motors, Kondabolu's documentary features his own efforts to corner the actor Hank Azaria, who voices Apu.
Democracy Now!
November 7, 2016
With the presidential election just a day away, we continue our conversation with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, the director of "Roger & Me," "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Bowling for Columbine," "Sicko," "Capitalism: A Love Story" and "Where toÃÂ ...
Reading Eagle
November 5, 2016
... R.J. Cutler's "A Perfect Candidate" (1996; 9 p.m.), in the person of Oliver North; Robert Epstein's elegiac "The Times of Harvey Milk" (1984; 11 p.m.
Democracy Now!
November 4, 2016
AMY GOODMAN: Today, with the presidential election just days away, we spend the hour with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, yes, the director of Roger & Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story andÃÂ ...
SouthFlorida.com (blog)
November 3, 2016
Moore knows how small towns endure the fallout of corporate whims better than most, illustrated in his acclaimed film about General Motors and Flint, Mich.
SouthFlorida.com
October 31, 2016
Moore and the Fort Lauderdale film festival have a history that stretches back to 1989, when FLIFF was among the first festivals to take a chance on his critically praised documentary "Roger & Me." At last year's festival, Moore took part in a Skype Q ...
Fortune
October 27, 2016
Even though the movie was filmed in Republican-leaning Wilmington Ohio, it's decidedly not a Roger & Me-style reportorial tour de force of exposing wrongdoing.
MLive.com
October 24, 2016
The article covered a range of topics, from the surprise film by the documentarian that became known on a national level after 1989's "Roger & Me" and later received an Academy Award for the 2002 film "Bowling for Columbine," to debates, and his ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
October 20, 2016
Here's where the master muckraker reminds us that his first hit film, "Roger & Me," was an angry cry in support of the beleaguered working class.
New York Times
October 19, 2016
Against the rest of his work ("Bowling for Columbine," "Roger & Me") it's fairly tepid stuff. (As of Tuesday night, it was booked for a run at the IFC Center and a theater in Los Angeles.
Comicbook.com
September 19, 2016
Spider-Girl writer and longtime editor Tom DeFalco will launch the latest "New Riverdale" title at Archie Comics, this one revolving around Reggie Mantle, in December.
Patheos (blog)
September 12, 2016
Yuval Levin believes that neither hyperindividualism nor centralization can help financially struggling Americans like Lance, whom I wrote about yesterday in the first part of my review of Levin's The Fractured Republic.
Popcorn TV News
September 8, 2016
Una montagna di carne al fuoco, cui pero' non corrisponde una resa cinematografica altrettanto efficace di quella dei due lungometraggi precedenti del piu' rissoso documentarista d'America, "Bowling a Columbine" e "Roger & Me". Logo Sky MAX Su SkyÃÂ ...
Siliconrepublic.com
August 29, 2016
Just watch Michael Moore's groundbreaking film Roger & Me to see the social and economic impact of the loss of the car-making industries on his hometown of Flint, Michigan, when General Motors decided to leave the very city it was founded in.
IFC (blog)
August 23, 2016
But his first doc, Roger & Me, remains one of his funniest and - with its focus on the economic impact of globalization on American workers - still remains one of his timeliest.
Democracy Now!
August 23, 2016
You recently wrote that Enbridge looks a lot like Enron. Explain. WINONA LADUKE: Yeah, I mean, Enbridge is not doing so well. You know, I've been writing letters.
Mediaite
August 11, 2016
His film "Roger & Me" in 1989 made Flint Michigan look like a 3rd world city and destroyed property values and business located there.
Monterey County Herald
July 16, 2016
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Huffington Post
July 7, 2016
Twenty years ago back in grad school, I remember watching Roger & Me, Michael Moore's moving 1989 American documentary about Flint, MI and the decline of the American auto industry.
The Guardian
June 9, 2016
The director of Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 was speaking at a London press conference for his new film, Where to Invade Next.
Vertigo
June 7, 2016
Hoe zou het nog met Michael Moore zijn? Ik zal niet beweren dat het me de voorbije zeven jaar wakker gehouden heeft, maar aangezien Moore toch de man achter spraakmakende en vaak zeer geestige documentaires als Roger & Me, Bowling forÃÂ ...
The Guardian
June 5, 2016
His politics were forged in Flint, Michigan, where his father was a car worker in a town of car workers, and it was where he made his first film, Roger & Me, about the devastating impact of General Motors' decision to shift jobs overseas. He's gone on ...
Patch.com
May 26, 2016
"Roger & Me," the documentary about the effect of General Motors' exit from Flint from Michael Moore, who grew up in Flint and says Snyder should be sent to jail over his handling of the water crisis, costs $14.99.
Movie City News
May 13, 2016
This kinder, gentler Moore will be recognizable those who follow him on the Internet or on talk shows, if not those so alienated by his grandstanding inBowling for Columbine, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger & Me. It can be argued that Moore cherry ...
Filmmaker Magazine
May 13, 2016
Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 films, including some of our all-time favorite documentaries such as Roger & Me (Michael Moore) Street Fight (Marshall Curry), American Revolutionary (Grace Lee) and The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer),ÃÂ ...
Filmmaker Magazine
May 12, 2016
Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 films, including some of our all-time favorite documentaries such as Roger & Me (Michael Moore) Street Fight (Marshall Curry), American Revolutionary (Grace Lee) and The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer),ÃÂ ...
Rock Cellar Magazine
May 6, 2016
Moore put the havoc wreaked upon workers by corporate outsourcing and downsizing front and center in Roger & Me, with this son of the working class' dogged pursuit of General Motor's CEO Roger Smith.
Detroit Free Press
May 4, 2016
The lost General Motors jobs Moore referred to were the subject of his 1989 breakout documentary film, "Roger & Me." On April 27, Moore posted on Facebook in regards to Obama's visit to Flint, "I'm sorry to tell you your visit is too little too late ...
Cinema World
April 30, 2016
Nel 1989 gira il suo primo film, Roger & Me, che realizza incassi da record e inaugura il movimento moderno del film documentario. Due altri suoi film registreranno cifre record al botteghino: Bowling for Columbine, con cui vince l'Oscar nel 2002, e ...
NEWS10 ABC
April 29, 2016
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) says it has received numerous complaints about a foul odor throughout the Capital Region Friday.
Roma Daily News
April 28, 2016
Nel 1989 gira il suo primo film, Roger & Me, che realizza incassi da record e inaugura il movimento moderno del film documentario. Due altri suoi film registreranno cifre record al botteghino: Bowling for Columbine, con cui vince l'Oscar nel 2002, e ...
RT
April 28, 2016
The native son, who first became known nationwide for his 1989 gritty documentary Roger & Me, wrote an open letter to the president in advance of his first visit to the 'Vehicle City' since lead contamination decimated the water supply in 2014.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
April 24, 2016
Known for being a staunch liberal and highly progressive, Moore's films Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 have focused on his criticisms of American politics and culture.
VUE Weekly
April 23, 2016
(The shots of such houses and Chomsky's point about citizens' movements reframed as dangerous special-interest groups recall Michael Moore's Reagan-era autopsy Roger & Me, with its eviction scenes and Flint-native Moore called a "private interest" byÃÂ ...
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