#147: (Pt. 2) Fahrenheit 11/9 / Roger & Me

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Is FAHRENHEIT 11/9, Michael Moore’s latest essay-film about the state of the nation under Trump, a natural extension of the techniques used in his 1989 debut ROGER & ME, or a worst-case-scenario evolution of Moore’s filmmaking style? We try to wrap our heads around that question as we put the two films in conversation, looking at what they tell us about the figure Moore has become, how he’s affected the development of first-person documentary, and whether his approach plays in 2018’s heightened political climate. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about ROGER & ME, FAHRENHEIT 11/9, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Keith: Alan J. Pakula’s STARTING OVER • Genevieve: Andrew Bujalski’s SUPPORT THE GIRLS • Scott: Robert Greene’s BISBEE ’17 Outro Music: K’naan, “With God On Our Side” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:29.3	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:36.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:48.9	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:53.3	in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:55.7	I'm Scott Tobias here again with...
0:57.3	Genevieve Kosky.
0:58.3	And Keith Phipps.
0:59.1	On the first half of this episode, we discussed Michael Moore's galvanizing debut feature, Roger
1:03.7	and me.
1:04.4	With this half, we'll check in on Moore's latest documentary, Fahrenheit 119, an up-to-the-minute
1:09.8	examination of life under Donald J. Trump.
1:12.6	A semi-sequeled to Fahrenheit 9-11, his pre-election dirty bomb about George W. Bush's first term in
1:18.2	office, Fahrenheit 119 begins with an homage to the was-it-all a dream sequence that opens the
1:24.8	earlier one. The dream, in in this case is the unlikely election of
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