Michael Moore
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America's Heart & Soul Stitching together stories of human triumph (blind mountain climbers!), first-time director Louis Schwartzberg accentuates the positive in his rousing celebration of American hope and energy (''Those are the stories I love!'').
Outlook Earning $135,000 its opening weekend, Disney's conservative film proved a weak countermeasure to ''Fahrenheit.''

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Having lobbied to see heavy metal group Metallica's ''gentlemanly'' side, ''Brother's Keeper'' directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were invited to film the band members working out their anger issues with a $40,000-a-month ''performance enhancer/therapist.''
Outlook With a guaranteed audience of headbangers and a trailer before ''Fahrenheit,'' this just-opened doc is sure to rock.

Riding Giants Swapping skateboards for surfboards, Dogtown and Z-Boys director Stacy Peralta aimed to debunk stereotypes and celebrate ''some of the most adventurous, iconoclastic, and independent-minded surfers.''
Outlook Buoyed by good reviews, Peralta's film (now playing in NYC, L.A., and Hawaii) is on track to prove why it was the first doc ever to open the Sundance Film Festival.

Imelda Eight years in the making (''It's not easy raising money for a film about an antihero''), director Ramona S. Diaz's portrait of Imelda Marcos showcases the Philippines' former first lady at her best (charming world leaders) and worst (3,000 pairs of shoes!).
Outlook The film's in only one U.S. theater, and its July 7 Philippines release was postponed after Marcos viewed a bootleg of Fahrenheit Imelda, as the Philippine press has dubbed it, and filed a restraining order.

(Additional reporting by Raymond Fiore)

Originally posted Jul 07, 2004 Published in issue #774 Jul 16, 2004 Order article reprints
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