Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Friends,

Well, this is it!

Tonight, at the Venice Film Festival, I will premiere my new movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” After 16 months of production, I am proud to present this work of mine to you. It is unlike anything you’ll see on the silver screen this year.

Twenty years ago this week I premiered my first film, “Roger & Me.”  Tonight, my new film will premiere at the oldest film festival in the world, the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. It is an incredible honor they’ve bestowed on us, and we feel very privileged to be able to present “Capitalism: A Love Story” tonight in Venice.

The director of the festival said that our movie was “incredibly symphonic” and that he was moved by its epic nature. Jeez, these Italians!

Everything’s an opera to them!

But seriously, I do believe we’ve made something that will knock your socks off. I showed it to a friend of mine last week and he said, “It’s your most dangerous film yet.” (But I assure you, you’ll be completely safe watching it in your local theater.)

I’ve kept a pretty tight lid on what we’ve been up to while making this movie and you’re about to see exactly what that means. It isn’t easy, in the age of YouTube and the internet, to keep something like this under wraps, but we’ve pulled it off and I can’t wait to show you this latest effort of mine.

So wish us well tonight. We’ll be home soon to open the movie all across the country (September 23rd in New York and L.A., October 2nd everywhere else).

I’ll leave you with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
P.S. If you haven’t seen the new trailer for the movie, check it out.

I was most moved with Michael Jackson’s performance at the Motown 25 event in 1983.

That night, 26 years ago, as I watched Michael perform, I recall vividly how the hair stood up on my arms; gaping in awe at the fluidity of his fancy footwork. His magnificent moonwalk defied reality. I was so moved that the excitement of the moment has stayed with me as of this writing. Michael Jackson was indeed, thrilling to watch. I felt the same way when I first watched Gene Kelly in “Singing in the Rain”, Fred Astaire in Puttin’ on the Ritz and James Cagney in “Yankee Doodle Dandy”. How lucky I was to experience this event in my own lifetime as part of MJ’s generation. Blessed and thrilled simultaneously. I’m sad he is gone. Even with the negative news events that transpired, I really did want to see him succeed this year. We’ll never know now if that would have happened.