Michael Moore Reveals George Clooney?s Unlikely Date Movie: Roger & Me

Actor George Clooney once confessed to Oscar-winner Michael Moore that he used the filmmaker's debut Roger & Me as a dating litmus test. Or so Moore told an audience at the Walter Reade Theater in New York, where the hit 1989 documentary had a special screening Tuesday night.

Moore laughed when recalling the story at an event hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which screened the documentary as part of its lead-up to the 50th anniversary edition of the New York Film Festival in September. The director explained how Clooney shared with him years back that, "I use Roger & Me for dating. By the first or second date, they have to watch [your film]. If they get it, they get a [follow-up] date. If they don't... they don't." Then Moore added rhetorically: "This story will only stay in this room, right?"

Moore gave insight and, not surprisingly, his opinion about Roger & Me and how it figures in the present economic times Tuesday night, and didn't hold back. "We're in some deep shit," Moore said about the condition of the country today compared to when he made Roger & Me for $150K back in '89. "I had hoped that what we have now wouldn't have happened." Moore, who sat through the screening with his wife, said that he hadn't seen the film in years because doing so is personally difficult. He noted today there are only 4,000 GM workers left in Flint, Michigan where Roger is mostly set, compared to 50,000 at the time he made the film. "Five minutes into the film, my wife started crying," he said.

FSLC program director Richard Peņa praised Moore — dressed in a brown hoodie and Tribeca Film Festival baseball cap — for ushering in a "golden…

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