How to Make a Guerrilla Documentary

NY Times Magazine ^ | July 11, 2004 | ROBERT S. BOYNTON

[buzzyboop]

The offices of Robert Greenwald Productions occupy a slightly rundown, horseshoe-shaped building in Los Angeles, just down the street from Culver Studios, the legendary movie facility where ''Gone With the Wind'' and ''Citizen Kane'' were filmed. Back in the day, the R.G.P. building, then a motel, was used by studio executives for liaisons with starlets and mistresses. Though no longer a Hollywood love nest, it still has a whiff of the illicit about it -- and still operates in the shadow of several corporate studios.

Robert Greenwald, a 58-year-old film producer and director with a number of commercially respectable B-list movies under his belt, has always tried to imbue his work with a left-leaning political sensibility. R.G.P. has been involved in the making of some 50 movies, including ''Steal This Movie,'' a 2000 film based on the life of the radical activist (and Greenwald's friend) Abbie Hoffman, and ''Crooked E,'' a satirical TV movie about Enron's collapse that CBS broadcast last year. Greenwald is presumably the only director in Hollywood to adorn his workspace with a quotation from Walt Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass'': ''The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots.''

[Junior]

So, Michael Moore's a 500-lbs guerrilla?

[Former Military Chick]

I saw this tonight and laughed. Then I did a search and became mortified. Who the heck is this guy>

[No Longer Free State]

Check this out; it looks like a methodology we could get involved in for my stuff, when we re-start full-scale freeps.

Yep. I was wondering how many times you could catch CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and/or NBC talking head hosts use the line "Some people say..." methodology (criticized in this article) against conservative/Republican guests in ONE weekend alone.

[MeekOneGOP]

Who is who ? Robert Greenwald Productions ?? I'm not sure, off hand.