Today is the day! Get your tickets and realize the way government is out of control in the USA. There is no excuse, the film is being shown in over 1700 movie theater across the USA. It is the largest release of a documentary. The theaters ASKED to have the film. This is "a thing."
Flint, Michigan is ground zero of racism. It has to stop. This is more than institutionalized hate, this is punishment for being poor, black and/or old.
The word "odious" means arousing or deserving hatred and repugnance.
From "The Associated Press" via the "Omaha World Herald?" Really? This is definitely a thing.
September 20, 2018
...So, (click here) who is going to help save the nation? Moore argues that it’s first-time candidates, many of them women, or striking teachers in West Virginia, unifying to win key concessions. And it’s student activists in Parkland, Florida.
Finally, Moore makes his most attention-getting argument. He juxtaposes audio from a Trump rally with video of Hitler speaking. He also interviews 99-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, who is reduced to tears when speaking of the separation of children from parents at the U.S. border.
“It’s the world in which we live,” Ferencz says, echoing Moore. “We’ve got to change it or perish.”
September 17, 2018
By Eric Kohn
...Over 300 critics and journalists (click here) covering the festival participated this year, and while many of them singled out lower-profile films, some of the most anticipated movies of the year dominated the categories for best film, best documentary, and best performance....
...The best documentary category departed from the fall season buzz that started in Telluride. While the big documentary breakout there was the tense climbing documentary “Free Solo,” it came in second place in the TIFF poll. Michael Moore’s incendiary “Fahrenheit 11/9” topped the category with 19% of the vote, while “Free Solo” came in second place with 10%. Breakout “The Biggest Little Farm,” a Neon acquisition at TIFF about a couple that purchase a farm outside of Los Angeles and deal with a series of setbacks, came in second place with 7%. Other popular non-fiction titles included Errol Morris’ unsettling Steve Bannon portrait “American Dharma” (6%), and the Netflix-produced Quincy Jones profile “Quincy,” which tied with Frederick Wiseman’s “Monrovia, Indiana” in fifth place....
