Tag: Alex Gibney
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
Sundance ’15: Amy Berg, Kirby Dick, Alex Gibney Fire Up Documentary Premieres Section
A section that throws the competitive spirit out the window, but actively becomes part of the year-end docu-talk, last year's dozen minus one offerings...
What’s Up Doc?: Louie Psihoyos Tops Our *New* Monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated Docs Guide
They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while...
The Armstrong Lie | Blu-ray Review
Lance Armstrong is proof that even the best liars eventually fold to the burden of ugly truths. Under the immense pressures of competitor accusations...
Sundance 2014: Latest From Amir Bar-Lev, Alex Gibney, Steve James, Joe Berlinger & Greg Barker in Docu Premieres
2014 is turning out to be a damn fine year for docus in Park City and we're not even mentioning the Competition line-up here....
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s Finding Fela!
Pop quiz. When was the last time that Alex Gibney did not bring a film to the annual snowflake friendly fest? Even in years...
2013 TIFF: Gibney, Posin, Turturro, Kevin Macdonald & Sean Durkin Fill Up Special Presentations
With only the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters programmes left to be determined, TIFF head programmers dished out the final make-up of the Galas, Special...
Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman
With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival, it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...
SPC Grab the Yellow Jersey for Gibney’s Long Awaited Lance Armstrong Docu
Formerly going by the title of Lance Armstrong: The Road Back, and now going by The Armstrong Lie, tipped for a TIFF premiere and...
Interview: Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks)
Just a month before Bradley Manning finally appeared before a military judge to confess that he did indeed leak thousands of sensitive military documents,...
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks | Review
Gibney Ciphers Assange's Brain Child
Back up a few years and you probably never had heard the name Julian Assange or his tiny little whistle-blowing...
The Last Gladiators | Review
Fight Club: Gibney Finds Tragedy In 'Knuckles' Nilan
The assiduous docu director Alex Gibney wrapped three films back in 2011, all of which seem minor...
Interview: Alex Gibney (Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God)
A crime story that spans decades, takes place on multiple continents and sees the most noble of authority figures involved in a vast cover-up....
2013 Sundance Film Fest: Cream of the Crop Premiere Docu offerings from Kopple, Gibney, Cutler, Junger and Lucy Walker
Sundance is really loading up on docs this year - a section that contained eight or so offerings in 2012 now holds almost a...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s The Road Back
No stranger to the Sundance Film Festival, over the recent years, Alex Gibney has premiered Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Sundance '05),...
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Review
Gibney Exposes Suppression Of Truth Behind Ministerial Molestation
After taking a breather from feature hardline journalism with a series of lighter docs in Catching Hell,...
