#928: MOORE, Michael: Bowling For Columbine (2002)

MOORE, Michael (United States)
Bowling For Columbine [2002]
Spine #928
Blu-ray

In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the intrepid filmmaker Michael Moore set out to investigate the long, often volatile love affair between Americans and their firearms, uncovering the pervasive culture of fear that keeps the nation locked and loaded. Equipped with a camera and a microphone, Moore follows the trail of bullets from Littleton, Colorado, and Flint, Michigan, all the way to Kmart's midwestern headquarters and NRA president Charlton Heston's Beverly Hills mansion, meeting shooting survivors, militia members, mild-mannered Canadians, and rock provocateur Marilyn Manson along the way. An unprecedented popular success that helped usher in a new era in documentary filmmaking, the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine is a raucous, impassioned, and still tragically relevant journey through the American psyche.

120 minutes

Color
2.0 Surround
1:85:1 aspect ratio

Criterion Release 2018

Director/Writer

Michael Moore was 48 when he wrote and directed Bowling for Columbine.

The Film

A

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Eric Hynes.

Commentary

None.

Michael Moore Makes a Movie

A documentary featuring Moore, chief archivist Carl Deal, field producers Jeff Gibbs and Meghan O’Hara, and supervising producer Tia Lessin.

Programs

Covering Moore’s return to Colorado in 2002, his 2003 Oscar win, and three film-festival interviews with Moore.

Excerpt

From a 2002 episode of The Charlie Rose Show featuring Moore.

Corporate Cops

A 2000 segment from Moore’s television series The Awful Truth.

Trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

99

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