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Roger & Me
1989 · Film · documentary · 91 min
Directed by Michael Moore
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
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Hoop Dreams is not on a list of the 50+ best documentaries?
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Art of the Steal - walks through the back-room negotiations and money resulting in the move of the Barnes Foundation (one of the world's greatest private art collections) from Main Line to Center City Philadelphia, which was specifically against the patron's wishes.
Roger & Me - I don't love Michael Moore's politics or his later movies but his breakthrough film, where he looks at everything gone wrong in his hometown of Flint Michigan, is very good.
June 17th, 1994 - this is an ESPN 30 For 30, splices together TV clips covering multiple historic sporting events of that particular day, most famously, the O.J. Simpson car chase. If you weren't alive on that date (and even if you were) it's utterly fascinating.
Having owned a 72 Vega and a 79 Mustang the quality drop off from earlier vehicles was obvious. No one is collecting late 70’s mustangs. No one is restoring Chevy Vegas. American car companies made crap cars and didn’t care until it was too late.
I refer you to the movie Roger & Me.
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Mildly OT, but reminds me of this iconic scene[0] from Roger & Me[1].
In some ways, (the movie[1], not the clip[0]) doesn't hold up too well. In others, it's still spot on IMHO.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ff68dXFsc
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me
The American Humane Association is upset about a scene in the acclaimed documentary Roger & Me in which a rabbit is clubbed to death, gutted and skinned.
"I had a very hard time with that when we edited it," Moore admitted. "We put it in, we took it out . . . then we just had to say, 'Look, this is how it is.' . . . One more thing," Moore added.
"Two minutes later in the film, a black man was shot. I had no calls, I never see anyone get out of the theater and leave. It's an image we've learned to accept because we see it on TV.
"I received a lot more sympathy and compassion for that little bunny than that black man. I guess you could say that the bunny didn't have a gun. Anyway, that was my thought process as we were editing it."
no need to look to Japan for this.
"Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed by independent filmmaker/author Michael Moore. With sarcasm and irony, Moore illustrates the negative economic impact of the late General Motors CEO Roger Smith's summary action of closing several auto plants in Flint, Michigan, costing 30,000 people their jobs and economically devastating the city.
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The most famous resident that appears in the film is Rhonda Britton, who sells rabbits for "Pets or Meat" (The scene many believe was the reason Roger & Me received an R-rating features Britton killing a rabbit by beating it with a lead pipe. The rabbit fights back before and during the early part of the beating.)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me