About this episode
The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1989 features our pick for the year’s most notable documentary, Michael Moore’s Roger & Me . Written and directed by Moore, who also narrates and appears onscreen, Roger & Me premiered at the 1989 Telluride Film Festival and went on to become one of the most influential documentaries ever made. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Hal Hinson in the Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/rogermerhinson_a0a906.htm ), Peter Rainer in the Los Angeles Times ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-11-ca-312-story.html ), and Dave Kehr in the Chicago Tribune ( https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-01-12-9001030984-story.html ).