Real quick, does Alex Gibney ever take time off? Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Sinatra: All or Nothing At All both made their premieres this year, but Gibney still has one more documentary up his sleeve.
Alex Gibney is continuing on his quest to make every denomination mad at him, and after turning his lens on the Catholic church in Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, he’s now examining the teachings of yet another religion, Scientology. The Hollywood Reporter reports that his latest project is based on Going …
The Armstrong Lie Written and directed by Alex Gibney USA, 2013 “I gotta win this fuckin’ race,” Lance Armstrong said in his hotel room in 2009, a moment captured on camera and edited into director Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, The Armstrong Lie. Gibney’s voice can then be heard off-camera, his tone agreeable. “My whole documentary is …
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Dir. Alex Gibney (2010, USA, 117 mins.) It is a mistake to think of this documentary as the story of one politician’s personal indiscretion. Client 9 is much more – it is the story of corrupt Wall Street bankers and traders, of a crusading Attorney General, …
——— Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Directed by Alex Gibney 2010, USA One of the rare moments of levity in Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job comes with the appearance of embattled ex-NY governor Eliot Spitzer, whose history with the high-end escort services also frequented by the movie’s high-finance villains made for a …