Posts Tagged ‘Michael Moore’
Michael Moore Sightings
1:17 pm By la Macha · Health|Uncategorized · 1 Comment
24 Sep 2009I already wrote that I can’t wait to see the new Michael Moore movie–the following clips show why. Especially pay attention to the Colbert video: if we had universal health insurance, we wouldn’t be in the middle of this economic crisis right now.
So I made this movie to do a number of things. One, to just go head on at this system. I’m not a reformer. I’m not looking for Congress to pass a few new regulations, which, by the way, it’s been a year since the crash, and they haven’t passed one of these things, which is what they said they were going to do right away, right? “All we need is a few rules. Don’t get rid of capitalism, just a few rules, and we’ll get everything back in shape.” Of course, they have no intention of doing that, and the banking industry has lobbied them successfully over the last year to leave them alone so that they can keep doing their crazy schemes. That’s one reason.
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I wonder what the politicians (and my Libertarian friends) response to that assertion is.
Michael Moore faces off with CNN
10:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health|Media · 2 Comments
11 Jul 2007…and wins. Sure, accuse me of being biased, but in this little exchange, Moore is triumphant, even if he does (like most liberals) lose his cool at the end. The director of the upcoming film Sicko, which compares the U.S. healthcare system to other countries — most notably Cuba — faced off with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, accusing both him and his network of being pawns for the pharmaceutical industry. Check out the video which includes an intro by Dr. Sanjay Gupta which sent Moore into a frenzy, then the face-off with Wolf. After the jump you’ll see Dr. Gupta attempt to face up to Moore on Larry King Live.
“Sicko” leaked on the web
11:11 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Health|Movies|Politics · Comments Off
15 Jun 2007
Things are getting more complicated for director Michael Moore. Earlier this week we told you that Moore feared that the U.S. government was out to get his new movie about the American health care system, Sicko, in an apparent attempt to stop the movie from being seen. Well, neither the government’s nor Moore’s own efforts seem to have worked, as the movie is already beeing shared on peer-to-peer internet sites, reports AdAge today:
If the breach is as wide as it appears — and this reporter downloaded a copy and watched it late Thursday night with ease — Moore, and his distributor, The Weinstein Company, have a every film maker’s worst marketing nightmare on their hands — how to persuade people to go to the theater to see a show that’s available free on the Internet. (Officials at the Weinstein Company were unavailable for comment late Thursday evening.)
Sicko is slated to open in the U.S. on June 29th, and was expected to pull in a lot of moviegoers for its premiere. What remains to be seen is whether the appearance of this pirated copy will impact ticket sales.
In a related story, Sicko marketers and nurses’ associations have banded together and plan to have nurses at every theatre for the premiere as a way to engage audiences in the ongoing conversation about health care in the U.S.
Via / AdAge
Michael Moore fears the government is after “Sicko”
7:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Cuba|Movies|Politics · 1 Comment
11 Jun 2007
Michael Moore is spooked. After receiving a friendly letter from the U.S. Department of Treasury in response to his trip to Cuba to film his latest doxposé, Sicko, Moore thinks the government might attempt to confiscate his film, so he’s left a copy in Canada:
“We brought back 15 minutes of the movie and we’re concerned about any possible confiscation efforts,” Moore told a news conference in New York.
Sneak Peak at Michael Moore’s “Sicko”
1:50 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Health|Movies|World · 1 Comment
23 May 2007Filmmaker Michael Moore has just released a short clip from his new documentary, Sicko, which compares the American healthcare system to that of Cuba and other countries. The clip shows Moore at a NHS hospital in the U.K., where patients pay nothing for procedures and are even reimbursed for transportation expenses to the facilities:
Michael Moore was recently warned by the U.S. Treasury Department that unauthorized travel into Cuba by Americans is prohibited. This seems to have only fueled media attention around the film, in addition to the movie’s success at Cannes:
In a choice that certainly endeared “Sicko” to the local audience, Moore spends much of the film focusing on France’s socialized medicine. Doctors lead comfortable lives, patients receive attentive care, employers grant extended health-related leaves — all reasons the World Health Organization ranked France tops in its global 2000 survey of the best healthcare countries.That the United States ranked only 37th on the WHO list, just two slots ahead of Cuba, particularly infuriates Moore: With more wealth and technology than any other country, we nevertheless have 50 million citizens without insurance, 9 million of them children.
What do you think of the clip? Will you see the movie when it comes out? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
Via / YouTube and LATimes.com
Michael Moore accused of violating Cuba travel restriction
8:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Cuba|Movies · Comments Off
11 May 2007
The U.S. government says that as American citizens, we are subject to restrictions on our travel into the island nation of Cuba. Controversial documentarian Michael Moore is being probed by U.S. officials to see if he acted unlawfully by visiting Cuba for the filming of his latest film, SiCKO.
Moore posted a letter received from the U.S. Department of Treasury — requiring him to supply documents related to his trip — in its entirety on his website yesterday.
In a statement, also published on his site, Moore’s producer said:
The efforts of the Bush Administration to conduct a politically motivated investigation of Michael Moore and ‘SiCKO’ will not stop us from making sure the American people see this film.
Michael Moore Goes to Cuba
3:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Movies|Politics · Comments Off
16 Apr 2007
Michael Moore of Fahrenheit 9/11 fame (or infamy) is at it again. His latest film brought him and some 9-11-01 emergency workers to Cuba, but not to play where’s Fidel. Moore took those workers to get medical treatment in Cuba. But it’s all not big heartedness on Moore’s part. It’s all part of his soon to be released documentary Sicko.
The film is an attack on US drug companies and private health insurance firms, which Moore hopes to show at Cannes Film Festival next month.
Two years in the making, the flick also takes aim at the shortfall in medical care being provided to people who worked on the toxic World Trade Centre debris pile.
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