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I thought Michael Moore's new documentary was far better made than the previous one. The good news is you don't see Moore at all for the first twenty minutes. In that time you hear his voice as narrator and learn to appreciate the quality of his voice and the clarity of his statements without wondering "what is under his hat?". The bad news is you see the face of the butcher of baghdad, George Bush, not Goddam Hussein, much more than you want to.

The detail in the information was incredible. Sources, where applicable, were well documented.

My hat is off to the Palm for jumping right out there and showing it instead of waiting until it was "population sample" OK as the Festival in Arroyo Grande did.

My mate has been picking the NetFlix DVDs lately and I have to confess that what we are watching is a step up as far as redeeming social value is concerned.

The latest is an incredibly beautiful film co-written by and starring Wm H Macy in one his best roles ever. Just when you think this actor has topped out, he does something mo different, mo better.

Door to Door is the true story of Bill Porter a lifetime professional door to door salesman. The difference is Bill has cerebral palsy, looks like Shrek should have looked. His mom (Helen Mirrer) gets him started with a sandwich one side of which says "patience" written in catsup. The other side says "persistence". As the movie progresses through the decades from mid fifties to mid nineties, you see the changes effected in the lives of his clients by Bill's patience and persistence and love (it should have been a three sided sandwich).

If you are looking for something real and inspiring to watch around your microwave popcorn, this is it, the most rewarding film I have seen since My First Mister, which, btw, my mate also selected from the NetFlix library. I hope NetFlix is going to give me a free DVD or something for saying "nice" things so I should probably say, yes they also have sloppy, tasteless flicks in their library as well.

Well, I have to recommend Office Space as one of my favorite comedies (sorry, I typed tragedies at first but isn't comedy usually tragedy). I liked it so much because so much was said with just gestures and understood so much because anybody who has spent time in the corporate grind understands the film perfectly. It is a send up of the ridiculousness of corporate behavior from the employee perspective and of course for all those poor management smucks who were chewed up and ground down and spit out. Mike Judge (The Milton Shorts)outdid himself with this one.

If you have ever seen a slacker promoted to top management (of course you have, look at the president) then you will nod your head off to this flick.

The cast of Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Ajay Naidu, David Herman, Gary Cole, Stephen Root,and others do a great job of not laughing themselves silly doing this schtick.

It was made in 1999 and is similar to but not the same as the animated Office Space made in 1991 although that one too is worth a watch.

I love to accidentally find an important writer by seeing a film. That happened with "Requiem for a Dream" direct by aranofsky and written in 1968 by Hubert Selby whose tenacity is on the Nietsche level. The film is a few years old but features some incredible acting by Ellen Burstyn and Jennifer Connelly in addition to a dialogue that should be a must for purposes of addiction recovery. Here is the link to a decent review. http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/requiemforadream.html - just plug that into the address slot of your browser (e.g. iexplorer) and click. Following Flicka's lead I am getting some flicks with redeeming social value from Netflix although in this case my wife's son bought the DVD.

Link to Review

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/stor...903,1287957,00.html

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While he was researching Down and Dirty Pictures, his book about the rise of the American independent film industry, Peter Biskind asked each of the directors he spoke to a question. If there was a movie of the book he was writing, who should play supersized Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein?

Down and Dirty Pictures is a sequel to Biskind's spectacular inside story of Seventies Hollywood, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Again, he embeds himself on the front line between art and commerce, integrity and greed, and watches the flak fly