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Michael Moore’s latest film is now available for free viewing online. In Moore’s words: “I’m giving you my blanket permission to not only download it, but also to email it, burn it, and share it with anyone and everyone (in the U.S. and Canada only). I want you to use ‘Slacker Uprising’ in any way you see fit to help with the election or to do the work that you do in your community. You can show my film in your local theater, your high school classroom, your college auditorium, your church, union hall or community center. You can have your friends and neighbors over to the house for a viewing. You can broadcast it on TV, on cable access, on regular channels or on the web. It’s completely free—I don’t want to see a dime from this. And if you want, you can charge admission or ask for a donation if it’s to raise money for a candidate, a voter drive, or for any non-profit or educational purpose. In other words—it’s yours!” We’ve embedded the movie after the jump as well, or you can always support the cause by purchasing the DVD for $9.95.

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"As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people’s lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In The Future Is Unwritten, from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe’s life, Julien Temple’s film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.” The film premiered at Sundance and opens to the public on November 2nd, 2007. Visit the movie site or check out the trailer on IFC’s Virb page.

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"Based on more than 25 hours of never-before-heard audiotaped interviews conducted by noted journalist Michael Azerrad, the movie Kurt Cobain About a Son is an intimate and moving portrait of the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, told entirely in his own voice—without celebrity soundbites, news clips, sensational or tabloid angles. It’s who he was from the man himself, with cinematic imagery shot on film of the three cities in Washington State that played a major role in his life (Aberdeen, Olympia and Seattle).” The soundtrack is by Northwest musician and producer Steve Fisk and Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard, as well as the music of “more than 20 artists who influenced or touched Cobain during his life.” The movie opens in select cities in October. The soundtrack is out now on Barsuk Records or you can see the trailer on their Virb page.

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