I like the two of these collaboration pieces that I've seen. I don't know how many more you have done. I've even caught the previous one on IFC proper a few times!

I really wish you would make these clips longer. IFC may have a self-imposed time limit for how long a segment like this can run, but Salon shouldn't. Andrew sounds like he is rushing to beat the clock during much of his part.

Two fascinating guys who really know a great deal about film... A year full of amazing documentaries... Certainly there's more to be said than was said here.

Perhaps you could produce a Salon cut in addition to the IFC cut with the Salon cut not being time constrained.

I read the 'end of summer' back article of the "Sicko" review. The Get Flash & Download time makes me give-up but...

I just wanted to mention "Moore is a People"...

One day a young student said, "You a farmer." And this was said beautifully, "You a people." I always will remember the tone was so gentle.

What I mean? I remember speaking with respectable Vietnamese who were learning to speak 'ingles' in America. The basic primer books would teach like a tourist book.

Example: "Where is a toilet?" "I'll buy a glass of white milk from a black Angus moo cow." "Where is a tavern to go to and get drunk and kick some butt?" "I'm so famished I could eat a lame stoning donkey." "President Bush is sicko and needs a good blind barber" "Do neocons eat three bowls of sauerkraut a day?"

Ya's understand muy dinky dao? yep.

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I read in the summer "Sicko" back-piece that Michael Moore uses Samuel Barber as a "overused weeper?" That inspired me to bashfully wonder and comment. Samuel Barbers, "Knoxville Summer of 1915?" Samuel Barber can help evoke some nice tears.

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Everyone should have some government paid heath care. How sick that a government can warmonger and create societal upheaval and havoc and Not give a dang heck about people! I had to get blown-half to smithies to get benefits from a Dept. of V.A. Affairs Hospital system.

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I got to mention respectfully to Moore this tease: Yesterday I was talking to a man who reminded me of Michael Moore to a "T"!

He was in partnership with a landscaper Mennonite Milk Farmer. I went to see him about flat stones on pallets. I was needing flat quarried stones for a landscape walkway etc.,

The chubby guy's not a Mennonite. When the Mennonite's wife of the dairy farmer gets involved via telephone conversations and the question is asked, "Who did you talk to to when discussing the stone pallets?" The response is often whether the lean straw hat Mennonite (her husband) or the fat non-Mennonite with most his teeth missing was down at the Stone Business farm-section on a particular day? All Mennonites look the same and the fat non-Mennonite is so funny. The fat stone man refers to himself as the Fat Stone Man. I'm not teasing about lost front teeth.

He (the fat Stone non-Mennonite Landscaper) is delivering two-stone pallets of flat stones here today at the Loon Bin Section 8 farm!

He tells dirty Mennonite jokes.

Michael Moore ain't a Masonite?

This clip starts us off with the expectation that we'll be hearing about 5 films. But then they only talk about 4 films, "Sicko," "Lake of Fire," "No End in Sight" and "Taxi to the Dark Side."

I agree with the previous poster that this subject merits more than the fast-talking 3 minutes of this clip. They rush through their discussion, and this becomes a noticeable problem when discussing the director of "Lake of Fire," Tony Kaye (sp?). They mention that he has butted heads with people in Hollywood, but we get no sense of what he actually did to piss people off.

O'Hehir is a little off in framing "Taxi to the Dark Side" as if it's about the Iraq war. The movie centers around an incident that occurred in Afghanistan.

From what I hear, all of the above are excellent, though "Sicko" is probably the least journalistically clean, being as much polemic as presenter of facts. I am almost inclined to believe that Moore will be denied the Oscar for the simple reason of keeping him from embarrassing everybody during his acceptance speech.

I am not into making horse-race Oscar predictions, but I think a vote for "No End in Sight" will be viewed as a vote against Bush and the Iraq war. So depending on their political mood, the Academy might make their decision on that basis. One other problem with an Iraq-based documentary is the fact that there are several other very good Iraq documentaries that have come out in the past couple years. (There were two nominees last year and they apparently cancelled each other out.)

The abortion film, though undoubtedly thorough and interesting, will probably be overlooked by virtue of being 3 hours long and among the least-distributed of the lot.

"Taxi to the Darkside" sounds like one of the best. Another potential nominee that I hear is good is "The Devil Came on Horseback."

It's too bad the producers of the "Frontline" series can't be nominated, because that series is required viewing for anybody who likes good, clear documentaries.

I am nuts for documentaries but I find that they are woefully under-distributed, and even when they do come to theaters they don't tend to stick around long (Michael Moore's films and "An Inconvenient Truth" being notable exceptions).

My method is to stack them throughout my Netflix queue, usually putting one documentary for every 5 other films. This sometimes results in strange movie-viewing transitions, such as watching "Death at a Funeral" followed by a documentary about methamphetamine followed by "Inland Empire," but what are ya gonna do?

Personally, I loved the innovative "Into the Silence," which explored monastic life heretofore hidden from public view.

America! Wake up to this true hero Michael Moore. Mr. Moore

continues taking on subjects others either are not smart enough to take on or simply do not really care to take on.

Health Care, like the environment, must be tackled before the Earth and then "We The People" beocme too sick to care for ourselves. Michael Moore points a finger directing our attention back to ourselves. Listen up America it is not about red state blue state its about flatline.

Bravo Michael Moore. Thank You Paul Revere.