The Fahrenheit 9/11 director urges colleagues at the Toronto film festival to accept that they are entertainers because 'people want to go home and have sex after your movie'

From the angry Fahrenheit 9/11 to the depressing Hamburg Cell, films about September 11 have journeyed through the five stages of grief. Now with weepies Dear John and Remember Me, the movies have come to terms with the defining event of our age

Director of Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 working on documentary that explores the world economic downturn and America's place in it

Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore is to launch a film festival in his native Michigan next month, but local residents have expressed concern over the film-maker's political agenda.

The Carlyle Group, the American private equity firm whose former Saudi links were highlighted by film-maker Michael Moore, yesterday reported its 'best ever' year and said it returned $5.3bn (£2.8bn) to its investors in 2004.

Soggy fiction is edged out by hard facts as Michael Moore's award-winning Fahrenheit 9/11 leads a renaissance of documentary makers.