TRAVERSE CITY -- Michael Moore said his new movie will "tell you the truth about the bailout, the crash, the robbery that's taken place."
Moore talked about "Capitalism: A Love Story" following a screening of his first movie, "Roger & Me," Saturday night at the Traverse City Film Festival. The new movie is scheduled to be released Oct. 2. Moore said throughout the festival that he had to have a director's cut to the studio by the weekend.
Moore was interviewed onstage after "Roger & Me" by festival board member Larry Charles, director of "Borat" and "Bruno."
"It's a ... documentary on the wonders of capitalism and how much I've been in love with it my whole life," Moore said in response to an audience member's question.
The movie will show "free enterprise is a failure and a lie," he said.
"It's a comedy about this crazy system. Nothing about this system is moral. Even the bishop of Detroit calls it a sin," Moore said.
"You'll see things you've never seen on the evening news," he said. On the way out he expects the audience to "ask the ushers, 'Where are the pitchforks and the torches?" -- metaphorically speaking, of course."
Charles said the movie is "an epic."
"It's an amazing movie. It'll just leave you drained," he said.
Moore said the best footage in the new movie isn't the archival footage, but footage off Fox News.
"That guy Glenn Beck, it's like he exists just to be in my movie," Moore said.
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