Filmmaker Michael Moore is back at it again, this time he’s tackling capitalism in his documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, which he screened at the Venice Film Festival yesterday.
The film avows the conniving buddy-buddy relationship between the government and the banking system which eventually led to the housing and financial crisis; costing millions of Americans their homes and jobs. In particular, Moore blames hedge funds that allow banks to basically gamble with investor’s money in intricate derivatives.
‘A Love Story’ features families whose lives have been ruined by the banking system. However, the filmmaker insinuates that a change in the system began with the election of Barack Obama and ultimate change depends on democratic participation by citizens.
Capitalism: A Love Story hits theatres nationwide on October 2.
Food, Inc. provides viewers with an inside look behind the veil hiding the mechanisms behind the Unites States’ food industry. Filmmaker Robert Kenner exposes the handful of corporations that control the industry and, who more often than not, place a premium on profit at the expense of consumer health with the consent of the USDA and FDA.
“We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli – the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.”
The film features interviews with experts such as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) as well as with progressive social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, who all help Food, Inc. reveal surprising and disturbing truths about what we eat and how it is produced.
Damn, this trailer made me contemplate the Popeyes’ chicken I had for dinner – the shit was delicious. The film is in theaters now.
Al Gore educated the world about global warming in his Emmy-award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Now journalist Charles Clover is dishing out the inconvenient truth about the effects that over-fishing is having on the population of fish in today’s oceans via his documentary The End of the Line.
In the film, Clover takes a look at how industrial fishing is emptying the seas of fish at a cataclysmal pace and threatening the livelihoods of poor fishermen in underdeveloped countries such as Africa and in the process killing wildlife.
According to the films makers, “High-tech fisheries now trawl the oceans with nets the size of football fields. Species cannot survive at the rate they are being removed from the sea… Ninety percent of the big fish in our oceans are now gone.”
This film is sure to change how we think about seafood. The End of the Line is now in selected theatres. Check out the trailer.
