Roger & Me
- Sun, Sep 21
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Michael Moore Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1989
Starring: Bob Eubanks, Fred Ross, Michael Moore, Rhonda Britton, Roger B. Smith
A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
Picked by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as the Best Documentary of 1989, this mordantly funny piece of investigative journalism centers on the near-total economic collapse of filmmaker Michael Moore’s home town of Flint, Michigan, in the 1980s–after General Motors closed its once-thriving auto plants, laying off 35,000 workers, moved its auto operations to Mexico, and entered the armaments industry. Narrated and starring Moore, Roger & Me recounts his (unsuccessful) efforts to get GM president Roger Smith to come to Flint and see the havoc his company’s exit had wrought. Moore’s film is a sardonic set-up of a serious subject, an approach that undermines some cherished notions about the socially aware documentary. -INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION
featuring The Wreck of the New York Subways from Third World Newsreel’s Newsreel Retrospective:
During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fare from 20 cents to 30 cents–a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare. In “The Wreck of the New York Subways,” riders and subway workers denounce the terrible conditions and constant fare increases. The film analyzes the vicious cycle of bonding the Transit Authority, which profits the banks at the expense of the taxpayers.
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