Hello, I'm Michael Moore and this is Rumble.
Welcome everyone. This is Oscar weekend.
And if, if you got my birthday message, yesterday online on
Facebook or Instagram, then you also know that yesterday was
Friday was my birthday and it was the date that 125 years ago.
The yesterday this weekend, the very first motion picture was
shown in the United States by Thomas Edison.
He rented out a dance hall. Was 34th Street in New York
City, put up his invention as projector and showed moving
pictures for the very first time in this country.
Just a few months after The Lumiere Brothers had done.
So in Paris, Of course, Tom Thomas, Edison's idea was to use
this art form as a way to tell stories that was not the
intention of The Lumiere brothers.
That's why they didn't really continue on for very long with
what they were doing. But we have to tip our hat to
the French for participating and giving us this, this incredible
art form that some of us spend a Good Time Of Our Lives working
in. So anyway, so the 125 years Ago
this weekend in New York City and I went down there and
there's a little plaque and if if I don't post it here I'll
post it on my Instagram and Facebook and and show that to
you also went over to Strawberry Fields and and sat there for a
while, listen to people with their guitars playing John
Lennon songs. But I want to get to the movies
and The Oscars here, this weekend.
And the ones that have been nominated.
I've seen virtually all of these nominees.
I'd like to give you my opinion and encourage you to see some of
them. Because let me just start by
saying this, I know this is been not a good year for the movie
industry. Obviously, the theaters have all
been closed to theaters that I helped run in Michigan have been
closed since March 10th of last year, so it's not been good and
most of us have not been able to work.
In this business because of covid.
Protocols, it's just too has been too dangerous.
Now. Now some work has started.
Protocols have been established to protect crew and actors and
directors and so maybe maybe. By the end of this year, we'll
start to see some new movies. Certainly on the streaming
services, but maybe depending on whether people get vaccinated
and whether they keep wearing their masks, we can get the
Eaters reopen, if not, then they will stay closed and if they're
not closed, if the governors of your state, any of your states
of reopen them, I'd stay out of them.
I haven't gone into one and I won't go into one until we've
are closer to reaching or have reached what they call herd
immunity. And that means about 80 or 85%
of us. Have got to get vaccinated You
know, teenagers need to be vaccinated and and they need to
if teenagers need to be able to go get vaccinated without their
parents permission. Some of these in the town where
I live in Michigan they the school district won't vaccinate.
You can get vaccinated 16 and 17 but they won't vaccinate the
kids unless they are print permission slip from their
parents. What since when do the parents
have a say? In your safety, your life,
whether you're going to live or die, if you're 16 or 17 years
old. If you don't have that right by
then. O people.
Listen this early. No might know parents have all
rights know who don't have all rights as parents.
You don't have right? You do have a right to beat your
child. You don't have a right to send
your child to the hospital. You don't have a right to what
they do in the Old Testament, sacrifice your firstborn.
He'll have a right to do that. You don't have a right to keep
them home in that educate them. You have to send them to school.
There's a whole bunch of laws that say that you have to do
certain things when you have kids and you have to not do
certain things. When you have kids.
In this case, you need to get The way and if you're 16 or 17
year old wants to get vaccinated, they should be
allowed to be vaccinated. That's if we're really serious
about wanting to get back to what people call the old normal.
I'm hoping we don't go back to the old.
Normal will have a new normal but we're not even get to The
New Normal if we don't do this. Okay.
That's my sorry. I say this nearly every other
episode about vaccinations wearing masks will be the were
so close my friends. Why why not just get over the
finish line? Here.
Anyways, that's um, today's podcast is not about that.
I want to talk to you about the movies.
This is what I do. It's what I love.
Always love going to the movies. She's when I was younger, I
would go. I would sometimes I would go
almost 5 days of the week, if it was a big Multiplex and there
were five different films, I didn't care how good the film
was. I would just, I would go to it.
That's just been that way for a long time.
I just love going. Even, I even like watching lousy
movies They're so lousy that they're funny or they're lousy
in a good way where I learned something like, you know, I make
a little note in my head Mike don't ever do that.
Mike see that don't do that. So see how helpful it is.
So it's so sometimes the bad stuff isn't so bad but I just
wanted to say though that in spite of How It's not been good
for the movies in the last year and how I'm certain, many of you
have not Seen a lot of these films that have nominations this
weekend. I got to tell you, there were a
lot of great movies this year, and if you haven't seen them, I
want to encourage you to find a way to see them.
Now, I understand that they're on all these different streaming
services. Each one of them charges
subscription to very hard to do this unless you've got some
serious disposable income. That's why I hope you know the
movie theaters can reopen Because you should be able to
see all of these in a movie theater, the way they were
intended to be seen. But before we get into those
that are nominated, I just want to give a shout-out to just a
few films that I did see in the first quarter of last year
before they close the theaters, before I close my theaters.
So some of these I brought to my theater or if you go to theaters
in Traverse City Michigan, and they're so good and I don't want
them to get lost because, you know, they came out, In the year
of whatever, whatever, what are we calling?
What will history call this year?
Or two? That were in not World War Z
naught The Walking Dead? I don't know.
They'll come up with something, if not, I'll come up with it,
we'll have a contest. We will all come up with a name
for this awful. Two years that were in here,
going on three, maybe folks, no, let's not do that.
Okay. It's up to you, it's up to all
of us. So, anyways, I just, I just want
to give a shout out to some of these films that got overlooked
by the Oscars. One film is called, Never
rarely. Sometimes always never rarely,
sometimes always, you know, sometimes when you're filling
out a questionnaire, And they've got the four boxes like do you
do this or that or whatever? Never rarely sometimes always
that. So that's the title of the film.
And it is a it's a kind of film that people still are afraid to
do stories about abortion and this is about a teenage girl
think. She's 17 years old, learner
cousin live in Pennsylvania, somewhere out in the middle of
nowhere. One of them becomes pregnant and
they decide to take the bus into New York City to get Abortion
without their parents knowing about it because again it's none
of their parents business if you're 17 years old and you want
to terminate a pregnancy that should be your legal right to do
that at your body, anyways? Okay, enough.
I'm sorry. Sorry for the preaching.
This is such a good movie, these two young actresses, and the
story it tells of 48 Hours on a trip to the Big Apple.
It's again it's one of these movies you've just never seen.
This movie before and it's very powerful and I really, really am
so glad to have seen this film, never, where I lie sometimes
always, then there's a comedy. Maybe you've seen this one Palm
Springs. This is, this is so hilarious.
It's a sort of a Groundhog Day idea of you're, at a wedding
reception, you meet somebody at the wedding reception and
imagine the rest of your life is reliving that on wedding
reception over and over and over again.
So that's where the Andy Samberg.
It's really funny. And just a really smart comedy.
If you get a chance to see it, another film is called first cow
and by director, I really like Kelly Riker and she is again,
made another very, she makes these kind of quiet films.
And it's set back. It looks like it's in the may be
there early days of Northern California and, you know, white
men have arrived set up camps, maybe do some mining.
Try to find gold, whatever, but there's no none of the basics
are there in this Camp. It's because it's the first time
white people are kind of hanging out.
So somebody sends down river for a cow. to be sent up from, I
don't know, the San Francisco area, whatever in the car
arrives on a barge, And so, the story revolves around this guy
who was a, like a chef back east in his younger days and he and
he was a pastry shop, I think and needs milk to make these
pastries for the camp and the only place where there's any
milk is this cows. So they start stealing the milk
from a cow. It's a really good movie.
It's called first cow. If you get a chance to see it a
a remake of the Invisible, Man, been two or three.
Versions of this starting back in the 50s.
This one is with Elisabeth Moss, handmaid's, tale and madman.
Modern version of it really good.
Really smart science fiction, not just us, you know, scary
horror film came out at the beginning of last year and
again, didn't get any notice because the pandemic it the
Invisible Man from 2020 then there's a film called the
assistant which essentially Is a fictional version of if you were
a woman and you worked in Harvey Weinstein's office.
Essentially, that's that's I've told you the whole movie right
there, but it's so well done. And so understated.
Not the filmmaker doesn't come in with a hatchet and a hammer
and a baseball bat but very definitely very and very nuanced
ways. It doesn't become so nuanced
because you just imagine yourself in that woman's shoes
having to work in an office like that.
And, and then finally, just another, another kind of goofy,
crazy comedy. But I loved it.
It's just one, it's Will Ferrell at his best.
It's called Eurovision song contest.
It's actually a much longer title and he, and, and his
singing partner sign up for this is huge thing in.
Opinion and even into all the parts of the world now have
their own like Regional song Cuts Like An American Idol kind
of thing, not really though. So they are representing Iceland
in the Eurovision song contest and it's Will Ferrell and it's
funny and I loved it. And it's it actually has won
Oscar nomination this weekend, for best song.
It's the speaks That he and his partner saying in the movie and
it's hilarious. And I encourage you, if you want
a good laugh, go with that or Palm Springs for good smart
laughs. Okay?
So now let's, let's get into some of the nominated films and
these are in no particular order.
And I'm not going to tell you which ones I voted for as an
academy member. And these are just there are
random bunch of films that I Really enjoyed and I felt were
every bit as good as any of the other years where you have a
handful of great movies and this past year, we had a handful of
great movies. And I don't want you to miss
these because I think you'll like them and I'm sorry.
I'm obviously I'm a little partisan, but I'm pulling for
the art form here. And I'm pulling for the idea
that we need to sit once again, someday together.
Again, 200 of us strangers in the same room.
In the dark and laugh. Our asses off or cry, her eyes
out, or get angry at The Human Condition, whatever it is movie,
does for you, or let you quietly sit there in a very, where you
could hear a pin drop. 200 people in the theater because
you're all thinking this movie is made.
You think I want those days back?
We will have the back. I'm not opposed to the living
room or the TV set. I really am opposed to watching
a movie on an iPhone. Please don't do that.
Okay, just speaking as a filmmaker, thank you.
All right, so let me just go through.
These are just I won't I won't take long hearing make this my
friends this is a brilliant film.
It's a set in the Glory Days of Hollywood in the 30s and 40s and
it tells the story of the screenwriter Herman mankiewicz
mink. The man who wrote Citizen Kane
for Orson Welles This movie is directed by David Fincher.
His father, wrote the script many, many years ago, his
father's passed on. He decided to make his dad's
movie. It's in black and white.
And maybe the most along, with Nomad the few others were the
most beautifully filmed movies of the year and the performance
by the actors, but especially a man deciphered as playing Marion
Davies was a real-life actress back in the day and in Citizen
Kane her fictional character. is the what they used to call the
ditzy blond and her performance as not a ditzy blond, but as a
very intelligent caring and curious adult, Remember those
people adults that were open to seeing the world?
Slightly different way her performance was so unexpected.
And I have to tell you I have not been able to watch Citizen
Kane. And I remember if you heard my
podcast though, week or two ago, When I was talking to Eric Roth,
the producer of mank, I tried to watch Citizen Kane on Turner
Classic Movies a few weeks ago and I couldn't, I couldn't watch
it. I couldn't watch it because once
this version of how the film got made was presented in May, which
is a fictional film. But is is using fiction to set?
Tell some greater truths. It became almost impossible.
I had to turn it off. Either Citizen Kane.
A off. This film is considered by most
people, may be the greatest film of all time.
But what this film does, what make does?
And what a lot of movies that are nominated this year are
forcing us to do. Is to look backward.
But with 2021 eyes. Look back to the past.
How did we get here in so many ways?
Whether it's about gender or race?
Or our whole situation in this country?
And I'll tell you it, my friends, it is hard to accept
what we have watched all of our lives in the movies on TV, the
versions versions of History. That wealthy white men have
wanted us to accept. And in this case in make, this
movie is saying that maybe we've been told the wrong thing.
Maybe the way women have been treated in films for 100 years
has been the wrong thing. And what mank is asking us and
is challenging us to do is to say in the case of Citizen Kane
You know, are you going to accept this any longer that one
of the great comedic actresses of the 30s and 40s?
Marion Davies was in fact just a stupid no-talent blond.
As she's portrayed or fictional characters portrayed in the
Orson Welles film. And my friends when you stop and
think about that, then you have to think about how Native
Americans have been treated in the films, and, of course,
African-Americans and man, just go down the list.
So many so many revolting. Stereotypes shoved down our
throats since forever. But when you look at the list of
this year's films, and when you watch these films, you start to
have this inkling. Whoa, could this be the end of
the bullshit? Are we in a transformational
moment? Artistically in this case with
the movies? Where we are going to tell the
greater truths with truth. And these truths are going to be
told that by just a bunch of white guys sitting in a room
coming up with a stories that they want to see.
Is it over? Is it getting better?
Is this year's group of movies, actually better than last year's
and the year before that, in some ways I think so.
I hope so. I hope this is a change and this
movie. Especially when you think about
Citizen Kane. This movie is a huge and
welcomed disrupter, manc. See, this movie.
Next up on my list. Here is promising young woman.
All right, so I guess now, we're going to just continue this
theme. I've started on here of looking
at a certain gender or a certain gender or to this movie
promising, young woman is a wrenching and brutally honest,
dark satire of how men of, you know, men guys, Good Guys, men
of culture, man, with good manners, men with education.
And how they still get to assault women at random and get
away with it. if this film set in the present is asking us,
what is your culpability in this, that that men are still
allowed to get away with this Behavior.
I had to tell you, I was floored by this movie and I put off
seeing it because I don't know, somebody just said, oh, it's a
movie about rape and psycho honey and, you know, knee here
that and he just ever each of us have, you know, some people
cannot watch. Movies that have that show child
endangerment even though we know it's a movie and their actors
and all that. And I just don't want to see
that other people don't want to see animals being hurt, even
though you're told at the end of the movie, The Humane Society
was on the set no animals were harmed.
It's still you know. Right.
You know who you are. We're all we all have these
lines where it's just like I don't want to see this.
And I don't want to see it during this pandemic.
I'm, I'm sad enough already. I don't need, I don't need this.
So I stayed away from this movie for a little while, and then
when that I watched it, and I thought, wow, this is this is I
did this, I've done this so many times before, previous films,
were you saw? I saw the trailer.
I saw, he can't take this. I can't take the world, is such
a cruel place. I know already know.
This is the cruelty of this and how much you hate it in.
Nyet and yet I turned it on and there it was it work of art,
brilliant brilliantly, written Carey Mulligan playing the lead
character. It it's I'm telling you,
everybody listen to this. Please watch this movie.
I mean, it had me on edge for two hours but on edge, in a good
way. Not knowing what would happen
next? It's like Carey Mulligan.
Plays this one woman, Justice League.
And she's incredible and she isn't always doing or going to
do what you think she's going to do.
And her actions are actually filled with heart and substance
and brains, and sort of. Wow, this is really, this movie
is so well thought out. this is really something you don't want
to miss this, this movie and what's so wonderful about this
character Is that as much as she is Seeking Justice?
And revenge. Two men who have hurt women.
She gives them more of a chance to be a human being than they
would ever think to give those to whom the victimized.
So again, whatever you've heard about the subject matter of the
film, just just erase all that and and move this movie to the
top of your list. Promising, young woman.
Next up, the trial of the Chicago 7.
Okay. You probably already know.
I feel about this movie. I had Aaron Sorkin on the
podcast here. A few weeks ago, I'm a huge fan
of Aaron sorkin's. If they do, bring back his
version of To Kill a Mockingbird to Broadway, or if it ever comes
to your town, please go see. It really is brilliant.
Brilliant. He is brilliant.
And of course, You know, trial of the Chicago 7 said during the
Vietnam War era, Chicago democratic convention in 1968,
the police decide to have a riot and just start injuring citizens
who are just peacefully protesting it.
I mean it is rare that the history of the 60s is told in a
movie with such honesty and pain and humor.
No cardboard cutout characters here course.
Not, it's Aaron Sorkin, he's not going to.
These are going to be complicated complex characters.
There's a diversity of of beliefs They are all men but the
one black men, the character of a real live person called Bobby
seale. So, brilliant to see this and
then this is what all of a sudden there's a at some point,
very early on in the film. You're not thinking this is the
60s. It's like you're watching
something that is really urgent and now relevant now.
Don't miss this film. The road that we are all on
right now. In 2021 has not met its
destination. But what the hope, the hope that
this film holds out for what happens if you do get involved
and you do make your voice heard, it's very powerful.
Sacha Baron Cohen who, of course, is Borat plays a very
comic serious role in this film. He plays Abbie Hoffman.
He's nominated for the Oscars this weekend for best supporting
actor. And of course, Aaron Sorkin is
nominated for his writing the film.
This is this is one of these rare films that gets politics,
right? So, please see this film, you
won't be disappointed and sticking with the theme of
political film set in Chicago, in the 60s, another film that's
up for best picture is Judas and the black Messiah.
And again, you have an intense, another intense, searing
political film this time. It's about Fred Hampton.
Who was the head of the Black Panthers in in Chicago, the
chair of the Black Panthers and We have the director and Fred
Hampton sun on this podcast month or so ago, talking about
it. And it's Great title, great
film, Judas, and the black Messiah.
Now I for those of you listening, I should give you a
trigger alert here. Just so you're not.
You know, put in the shock. When you watch this movie and
here is the alert. This movie suggests that the
police and the FBI deliberately murder people there.
I'm setting. Take a breath if you need to.
Oh, and sometimes they murder. People for political reasons
which would be called an assassination.
The other person killed with Fred Hampton on that night, he
was assassinated Mark Clark. I first knew this or heard of
this story because Mark Clark family living in Flint,
Michigan. He too was assassinated by the
Chicago Police and the FBI, but aside from all of that.
And I hate to say, aside from all of that aside from all of
that assassination by the cops that we our tax dollars, go to
pay this movie. As a work of art is a
masterpiece and you do not want to miss it, Judas and the black
Messiah. Next, film up for best picture.
Here is minari. It's about an immigrant family
from Korea who decides to come to America.
And after working in California, for a number of years decides to
move to the real America called Iowa.
Right there. Do I need to say more?
This is a beautiful film. It is sweet.
It is funny. It is heartbreaking.
And it reminds us that it is not easy to be a stranger in This
Strange Land that we live in. And most of our
great-grandparents I'm talking about, do you white people not
to the descendants of slaves or the first peoples that were
here? But mostly everybody else your
grandparents great-grandparents great-great-grandparents.
Most of them. if they were able to get here, lived some version
of this story you see here in manari Of the five films that
are nominated in. This is one of them for best
director. This is one of the three, three
of the five are directed by women.
If you're not shocked by that, I just, I will say as an academy
member and former board member. I will tell you for just so you
have the context of this. I'm pretty.
Certain I did not look this up before the podcast.
I think the total number of women nominated for best
director in the past 92 years of the Oscars.
The total number five, Five before this year.
Then this year, three in this year that's what's happening
folks. That is what is happening and it
should happen and it is long overdue.
Next up is nomadland. This film is also a work of art.
I mean, like real art. Your lips like you're sitting in
the theater. If we were sitting on a theater,
we'd be looking at moving art. There's nothing like this film.
Male comedians. I'm, you know, the some
sometimes on some of these shows this week, run podcast, they've
been they've been making jokes about this film. it's because a
film like this signals the sea change that we are now in a sea
that is hopefully drowning, most of the misogyny that we've had
to put up with it, certainly in the movies No Madeline is it's
beautifully, photographed. It stars the great Frances
McDormand. Boy, this is this is a film for
it's like a meditative feast. You sit, and you watch this
film. And it takes your mind to places
it needs to go. It's just incredible.
No, math Lin. The last film that I saw here,
the beginning of the week, just before it was time to vote for
the Oscars was the father. I again I had avoided this film
because the trailer the ads, whatever.
Look like just another Alzheimer's movie.
And I'm like, okay, I get it, I can't take this, you know, you
know, both of my parents are gone now.
Everybody knows as you have to take care of your parents, in
the final years of their lives. If you haven't gotten that memo,
by the way, if you're in your twenties or thirties, you don't
need to worry about it right now.
But I'm just saying this movie is I don't know, it does.
This is such a beautiful movie. Don't avoid this film.
It does not seek to jerk your tears.
It asks, you simply to look into a future that may be yours.
Yours personally, or yours because of your parents and it
asks, you not to fear it, but just to think about it, each of
us have parents, some have left us, others are still with us.
And who will we be at that age? Anthony Hopkins plays the
father. Olivia Colman places daughter
and I'm telling you, man acting doesn't get better than this.
This is I can see why it was nominated for Best Picture.
In the old days. This is the film.
That would win best picture, but I'm not doing predictions on
this podcast. I'm just saying that if you have
a chance to see this film, please do a couple of others by
rainey's black bottom. Whoa man.
Blistering. Brilliant Viola Davis is
amazing. So it was the late Chadwick
Boseman and of course this is written by August Wilson.
One of our greatest ever play rights in this country you have
to see it just for that. Great writing.
Great characters. Great American stories.
And this is one of them. It will knock your socks off.
This is don't miss this film. My rainey's black bottom.
And then, of course, Borat subsequent movie film as a much
longer title, you know, the Traverse City Film Festival.
The found held the unofficial North American premiere of the
original Borat film in 2006. So we have a special connection
to Borat first boros directed by Larry Charles who's been on our
Board of Directors, for a film festival here in Michigan for
many, many years. The sequel to this first, Borat
it. It just continues, huh,
outrageous. Political a Kind of Perfect film
for our time right now. I'm hoping most of you have seen
this by now, but if you haven't give it a watch before the
Oscars here, it's nominated for two for best, supporting
actress, and for in, for writing, for Josh's, writing for
it. So, Borat subsequent movie film.
Again, I'm always pushing for any film.
That gives us a chance to laugh. During the time we're in,
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the Oscars and about the movies this year, the documentary
category, all of them. All five of them are great.
And for one of the first times ever, I think three of the five,
the majority of them are not from the US.
Therefore in documentaries makes it very interesting tell.
I I love I mean it my Film Fest why I bring a lot of foreign
documentaries because they just they do it differently and they
tell a stories that we would otherwise never see in this
country. So check them out.
If you have a chance all the shorts this year, short
documentary, short live-action, film short animation, all of
them. Fantastic.
I have my film festival site right now, it's a virtual site
you can you can go on. It's called the virtual State.
The virtual state DOT org and you go there and you can rent.
Buy a ticket. Watch the all the shorts.
The oscar-nominated shorts this year.
Encourage you to do that. Then finally oddly enough this
year, I have only seen one of what used to be called best
foreign film and now it's best International Film.
I've only seen one of the five nominees I don't.
I'm not really not. I don't feel.
It's right to him to make commentary.
I'm just the one film I've seen in that.
I plan to see the others and I probably will bring a number of
them to my own Film Festival, but it's sadly, one of the
categories I just did not have time to To watch the films this
year, but, but they're from, they're from Bosnia, you know,
they're one of them's. Well, here's one from Hong Kong.
And I just heard that the state TV in Hong Kong, is prohibiting
the Oscars from being shown because of one of the cat, one
of the nominees for best foreign best International Film.
And one of them needs for, one of the shorts are from Hong Kong
and they take a critical view of how the Beijing government is
trying to crush any dissent and, and trying to create a way that
the people in Hong Kong don't want to live.
So now they're going to black out the askers this weekend.
So right there are you that makes you want to see the film
at that point, right? Anyways, I hope this has been
some help. If you haven't seen these films,
I've spoken of please do, let's let's get rid of the the
coronavirus so we can get back into the movie theaters and
watch these movies, the way those of us who make them intend
for them to be seen, I have enough friends that work in the
movies fiction and nonfiction and I know that they're dying to
get back to work, so they don't want to die to go back to work.
So But some have started. So I'm started in other
countries. So we'll have a new batch
hopefully by this time next year.
Let's hope so. Because I, I personally am ready
to make one of three films. I have, I want to start making
at some point here, like I'm backed up.
I'm backed up. I need to, I need to get these
films out of my system. So that's my hope for this year
that I will be making a movie in the year called 2021.
Thank you to all of those of you who have made these incredible
films here in the last year and good luck to all of you at the
Oscars this this weekend. I know the feeling and there's
nothing like it, and Best of luck.
So everybody thanks for listening to this episode of
Rumble. Keep watching movies.
Let's all go back to the movies and they're in the theaters
since we as soon as it's safe to do so.
And and I'll be watching the Oscars with you Sunday night.
It begin 8:00 eastern time. I'm looking forward to it and
plus it's being conceived by the great Steven Soderbergh.
So right there something gets all right, everybody, thanks so
much for listening to rumble. Thank you to our executive
producer, bezel Hamden, our editor, Nick quas.
And in to all of you for being listeners of this podcast, I'll
talk to you real soon. Have a good rest of the week in
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