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When Michael Moore went looking for funding for his newest film, he claims he told the studio that it would be a kind of sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11, the director's most financially successful film to date. They handed over the cash, and he turned around and made a film that has little to do with that anti-Bush polemic, that is instead unapologetic about biting the corporate hands that feed him. That doesn't mean that Capitalism: A Love Story isn't a sequel, though. It's just that its direct antecedent is Moore's debut (and arguably still his best), Roger & Me, which was released 20 years ago this December.

Left wing propagandist, or righteous speaker of truth to power? Hypocritical blowhard or man of the people? Egotisical hack or talented documentarian? Chances are you already have a strong opinion about Michael Moore, and already know if you're planning to check out his latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story. The film met with warm receptions at the Cannes and Venice film festivals, winning the Little Golden Lion Award at the latter. Notices in the U.S. have also been positive, though slightly more mixed — those on the Continent have always been more inclined to laud Moore's films, as they are with Woody Allen and Jerry Lewis as well. Moore and Allen we get; Lewis, not so much.

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Lake of Fire Michael Moore may have grabbed all the press where high profile documentaries are concerned, but it's Tony Kaye's Lake of Fire that is being quietly talked about as the most powerful documentary of the year. Which is remarkable considering its subject is one of the most talked about and analyzed issues on...

Ahh, rise and shine, Washington! It's another beautiful fall day, so stretch and breathe in deep ... but not too deep, unless you enjoy inhaling some of the worst air in the nation. Scientists are putting numbers on information our lungs already knew: the D.C. area "produces more carbon dioxide than several medium-size European countries," the Post reports. This is due primarily to Maryland's coal-burning power plants and our stand-still traffic, we make more carbon...

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Michael Moore is a loudmouth. His films tend towards the brash, arrogant, and inelegant, usually leaving subtlety and nuance to smaller personalities. He has a flair for public spectacle and complete lack of shame that would make P.T. Barnum proud. But say what you like about Michael Moore, he's no dummy. He just plays one in the movies. Sicko, Moore's examination of the state of America's health care, may be his smartest film. It follows...

We're going to be the first ones to call it: the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival is all grows up. Yeah, you heard us. As of this year, it's a real-deal film festival, the kind of event any filmmaker who knows anything would be thrilled to participate in. And we're not just blowing smoke. The lineup of more than 100 films and special events between today and Sunday isn't just impressive, it's overwhelming. With all due respect to FilmFestDC, its programmers kinda dropped the ball this year, and despite their wider range, the documentary-only SILVERDOCS has grown to be so robust, it could take FilmFestDC in a street fight anyday. Granted, a good deal of it has to do with luck; It certainly doesn't hurt the festival's growing reputation that feature-length documentaries are about 1000 time more saleable than they were 4 years ago (hat tip, Michael Moore). When Werner Herzog showed up to SILVERDOCS in person last year with his film Grizzly Man, we knew something was up. But when Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch come by just to shoot the shit, well, that my friends is what you call a destination film festival. Right here in our own back yard. Hallelujah. Amen.

When 25-year-old filmmaker Steven Greenstreet heard director Michael Moore had been invited to speak at Utah Valley State College during the heat of last fall's election, he knew things might get interesting. He was right, and his documentary of the events, which he dropped out of nearby Brigham Young University to create, is also generating some attention. The film is called This Divided State and has been picked up by the liberal Center For American Progress for a nationwide campus tour. Their Campus Progress project is sponsoring a free screening tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. at the E Street Cinema downtown. Although the screening is free they're asking attendees to RSVP on the web, and we heard as of yesterday there was still space.

Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore still intends to speak at George Mason University in Fairfax, despite the university rescinding its official invitation to the man from Flint, Mich., who brought us "Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine," and "Fahrenheit 9/11." Moore was supposed to speak at the Patriot Center for $35,000, but when word began to spread, the phone calls started flooding in expressing concern that public money would be used for a partisan speaking engagement so close to the Nov. 2 elections.

The 2004 D.C. Labor Film Festival starts tomorrow and ends Monday. The festival is sponsored by the DC Metro Council AFL-CIO, Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, and the American Film Institute, and all films are shown at the AFI's Silver Theater in Silver Spring. The concluding film will be shown in the District at the D.C. Jewish Community Center at 1529 16th St. NW. All of the films are $8.50, the final film $9.