| View Larger Image | Manufacturing Dissent | DVDStarring: Dave Barber; Peter Bart
Directed By: Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 97 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC | | Studio: | Liberation Entertainment/Starz Home Entertainment | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.78:1 | | Release Date: | November 06, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 57,120th |
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Product Description
Uncovering Michael Moore In the realm of documentary filmmaking there is no greater icon than Michael Moore, but are his films really the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truthAt what point does the manipulation of fact become a work of fiction? See for yourself when the lens is turned on the most controversial director of our time. Discover the film that Michael Moore doesn t want you to see |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 27 reviews)
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It's all Here ... Watch and You Decide by Music Police (Mass)  5 Stars
September 23, 2009
Just finished watching this film, along with "Michael Moore Hates America". This loser gets exposed for what he really is ... a self hating, America hating, sad pathetic man. Both films are excellent.
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The truth is here to see... by NEAL WARTH (Ventura, CA) 5 Stars
July 22, 2009
...though, as a lot of the other reviews demonstrate, it's easier for some to look the other way. There's no getting past the reality that the ends justify the means for many people ("The True Believer" that Eric Hoffer dissected so brilliantly). As it happens, I caught this documentary recently on Sundance though it's now about two years old. No histrionics or transparent animus at work here. Just a steady-handed evisceration of your basic ethically-challenged narcissist. The film scores its points effectively through the testimony of former associates--supporters disillusioned and friends betrayed, going all the way back to Moore's slithering exit from Mother Jones in the early 1980s. No right wing bogeymen to aid and comfort the denial crowd, just the likes of publisher Adam Hochschild, labor attorney Guy Saperstein, Nader lieutenant Jim Musselman, film maker Kevin Rafferty, film critic Jack Matthews, writer Christopher Hitchens, Ralph Nader himself, and so on. Definitely worth viewing.
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Turnabout is more than fair play in this documentary by David C. Read (Glendale, CA USA)  4 Stars
July 11, 2008
What is interesting about this documentary is that it is made not by conservatives, but by Canadian liberals who largely share Moore's left-wing perspective. They start out sympathetic to Moore, but, by the end, are finally forced to admit that Moore is a self-aggrandizing liar whose films, while entertaining and well made, are certainly not "documentaries."
The filmmakers are clearly not hostile to Moore or his politics. For example, they point out that Moore was absurdly and unfairly prevented from being admitted to his high school's "hall of fame." And one of their critiques of "Bowling for Columbine" was that Moore, instead of calling for a ban on the handguns which are involved in most gun crimes, launched into a convoluted critique of American culture. Most of the interviewees were left-wing activists who totally share Moore's politics, and worked with him at places like "Mother Jones."
So it is all the more damning when they expose Moore's shoddy propaganda. The film most comprehensively dismantled is the one that made Moore's reputation--1989's "Roger and Me." The whole conceit of the film is that Moore chases GM CEO Roger Smith around with a camera and microphone, but never gets an interview. In reality, Moore got a 10 minute interview with Smith, the transcript of which still exists, although Moore tried to get his left-wing colleague to deny its existence. Moore crafted the movie to make it appear that he was alone in his quest to call GM to account, when in reality, there was a huge union and activist movement calling for the same things Moore was calling or. Moreover, Moore changed around chronology and invented out of whole cloth a story about a stolen news van (and shot a fake local new segment reporting the "story"). He also created a scene to make it appear that he had been cut off from speaking at GM shareholder's meeting when, in fact, that never happened.
Then there is "Bowling for Columbine," in which Moore staged a scene in which he receives a gun in return for opening a bank account, making it appear that you could get the gun right there in the bank, when he knew very well that that was not how it worked. And his ambush of Charlton Heston, who was already suffering from Alzheimers, is aptly decribed by another left-wing activist as "mean," which it certainly was.
Moore is a good and entertaining propagandist, but he is no journalist and he has never made documentary in his life.
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An intriguing and fair film for Moore detractors and fans alike by Robert Benson (Twin Cities, MN) 5 Stars
May 17, 2008
Some other anti-Moore films have fallen short, but Manufacturing Dissent provides a fair and interesting view of Michael Moore's filmmaking tactics.
I first only thought that Fahrenheit 9/11 was Moore's only film with twisted facts and out-of-context imagery, but it seems that's been Moore's process from the very beginning, from Roger & Me on down.
While other reviewers criticize these filmmakers of repeating Moore's own techniques, they did so in attempting to get an interview from Moore that he never granted. Instead, they were frequently dismissed and even removed from an event on one occasion.
Bottom line: Michael Moore does not make documentaries, nor has he ever. He makes movies, if only to entertain an audience that he would be lost without.
Give this documentary a try -- while the editing and flow of the film is a little jaunting, the lies it exposes is worth giving it 5 stars.
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An Inconvenient Truth About Michael Moore by Bored With Hollywood 5 Stars
May 09, 2008
Most intelligent people can decide for themselves after seeing a film done by Michael Moore whether it's factual or not, but I think many people instead may want to believe it if they agree with it, or disbelieve it if they don't. But the most telling thing about this film exposing Michael Moore's tactics is that his most staunch supporters...the people who know him personally and have worked with him...disapprove of his methods and talk about his distortions in his films. When his closest collaborators are willing to be interviewed saying he twists the facts, and outright lies, I feel vindicated in my suspicions about Michael Moore. This is a good film telling the other side of the story about the real Michael Moore. I highly recommend it to people who want to know all sides of an issue, and not just the side they agree with.
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