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What first led you to film...
...Several years afterward, my father let me stay up late at night to watch movies on TV, and I watched him cry for the first time. He hadn't cried at her funeral, and I suddenly at age 13 or 14 realized the huge power of film, that here was the place that he felt he could express emotions. I vowed right then and there that I wanted to be a filmmaker...
...Feature film] was where I wanted to come from. I wanted to be John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Howard Hawks. But I have found in this work--asking over and over again, Who are these strange and complicated people who like to call themselves Americans?--the best job in the country...
Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, which goes nationwide Oct. 2, is his most vigorous, rollicking, broadly ambitious work yet. Not satisfied with condemning the housing and banking crises of the past year, he expands the story of the financial collapse into an epic of malfeasance--capital crimes on an international scale. The movie also has the requisite Moore grandstanding scenes: attempting a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, parking a Brink's truck in front of banking establishments to retrieve the bailout billions they received, wrapping the New York Stock Exchange building in yellow tape that reads...
Except that Moore isn't making works of fiction (though his critics, on the left and the right, might say he is). He's achieved his eminence in the documentary--that noble, educational film form that most moviegoers find as appealing as a visit to the dentist. In the kingdom of cinema genres, the documentary falls somewhere between food taster and peasant advocate...