Word: slackers
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...rage as he was four years ago, but he's still busy. He's published a pocket-size paperback, Mike's Election Guide 2008, which details how the Democrats can win the election (and how they could blow it). He released a movie record of his 2004 tour, Slacker Uprising, free on the Internet, becoming the first major filmmaker to do so. He's got a website, MichaelMoore.com, a cross between the Huffington Post and a community-organizing bulletin board; last month the site pulled in 1.4 million visits. Moore's also on TV a lot, including appearances on Keith...
...Slacker Uprising...
...Counting Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko and Bowling for Columbine, Moore is responsible for three of the five top-grossing documentaries of all time - it's Moore, Gore and the penguins. Slacker Uprising won't join this company, since it wasn't released in theaters, and it won't be a big moneymaking DVD (as of Sunday night, it was No. 2,829 on Amazon's best-seller list), because Moore is offering it free on his website. There it's sort of a sensation: 2 million hits in the first three days; it reached No. 1 on both iTunes and Amazon...
...Called Captain Mike Across America when it played to two packed houses at last year's Toronto Film Festival, the film details Moore's attempt to get young people, traditionally the least likely voters, off their duffs and into the polling booth. Slacker Uprising, shot and edited by Bernardo Loyola, is the hagiographic record of that tour...
...surprise to see filmmakers and distributors looking for a new model for connecting films with audiences. Last month, Michael Moore released his latest documentary, Slacker Uprising, online and free of charge. For Magnolia, premiering Wang's film on YouTube provides a unique solution to an unusual challenge. Late last year, Wang was completing work on two films: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, both adaptations of stories by Yiyun Li that focus on three generations of Chinese natives now living in America. Prayers, which was released in select art houses in September, tells the tale...