Michael Moore: A Love Story

Michael Moore threatens to retire from documentaries while promoting his latest film Capitalism: A Love Story at the Toronto Film Festival.  Is he pulling a Jay-Z?

“I think people will be maybe somewhat disappointed because there’s so many things we need to deal with right now, and they wish I would make a film about it. But I want other people to make those films,” Moore said.

“I am tired of feeling like I’m doing this alone. All through the eight years of Bush, you Google `Bush’ and `nemesis’ and I’m the first name up. And there aren’t a whole lot of other names,” Moore said. “It doesn’t work with Michael Moore and Sean Penn and Ted Kennedy and a few others. The people have got to get involved in their democracy.”

He talks like he has gotten too big for documentaries, and wants to go back to narrative films, hopefully having learned a lot since Canadian Bacon.  I think myself, and all other social issue documentary filmmakers will get on, somehow, without him.  (Unless, of course, he wants to start giving money to other filmmakers to make the sprawling, informative films he doesn’t have to make?)