STREETERVILLE — Outspoken filmmaker Michael Moore will screen his new movie in Chicago this month.
Moore will headline the 51st Chicago International Film Festival and show his new movie, "Where to Invade Next," at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at the AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St., the film festival announced Friday.
"Michael Moore is quite a character and his films are important. He's changed the way we look at the documentary in so many ways," Michael Kutza, the film festival's founder and artistic director, said in a statement. "You either love him or you hate him, but he's definitely a director to watch."
The festival said Moore's new film is "an expansive, rib-tickling, and subversive comedy in which Moore, playing the role of 'invader,' visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects."
Moore won an Oscar for his 2002 documentary "Bowling for Columbine," but his brash political views have also drawn criticism.
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