Alex Gibney

Directors Reveal Their Picks for the Best Films of the Century
Directors Reveal Their Picks for the Best Films of the Century
Directors Reveal Their Picks for the Best Films of the Century
Earlier today, The New York Times published a fascinating, beautifully designed, and occasionally infuriating list of “The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far.” Times critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis named their picks, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood claiming the prize as the best film of the last 16 and a half years. Their list also surveyed some directors for contributions, and in a separate piece, the Times listed the favorites from a half dozen of the biggest directors working today.
Amidst Legal Troubles, Murder Doc ‘No Stone Unturned’ Pulled
Amidst Legal Troubles, Murder Doc ‘No Stone Unturned’ Pulled
Amidst Legal Troubles, Murder Doc ‘No Stone Unturned’ Pulled
There’s prolific, and then there’s Alex Gibney. The nonfiction filmmaker works at a rate bordering on inhuman, cranking out 14 documentaries over the past five years alone. He assembled three releases in 2016, mapping the breadth of his subjects: the alarming (and, to some, alarmist) Zero Days traced potentially ruinous lines between computer viruses and nuclear capabilities, The Agent cast a skeptical eye at the C.I.A.’s preparation and response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, and Cooked offered Gibney the chance to tackle some lighter material with a food documentary. He’ll return to weightier fare with the murder investigation doc No Stone Unturned, but a new report today indicates that he won’t do so at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Documentarian Alex Gibney Will Make His Narrative Film Debut With ‘The Action’
Documentarian Alex Gibney Will Make His Narrative Film Debut With ‘The Action’
Documentarian Alex Gibney Will Make His Narrative Film Debut With ‘The Action’
There are few filmmakers more inhumanly prolific than Alex Gibney. The documentarian has completed nineteen (as in 1-9) features over the last decade, not including various shorts and contributions to anthology-doc programs such as ESPN’s classic 30 For 30 series. Chances are that he will probably finish another movie by the time it takes you to reach the end of this article. With such powerful, issue-driven films as Taxi to the Dark Side (injustice in militarized Afghanistan), Going Clear (the mysterious evils of Scientology), and We Steal Secrets (the controversial Wikileaks declassifications), Gibney has earned himself a bit of Oscar gold and cemented his reputation as one of the most skilled, popular, and hard-working documentary filmmakers currently working.
'Going Clear' Trailer: Scientology Gets Exposed
'Going Clear' Trailer: Scientology Gets Exposed
'Going Clear' Trailer: Scientology Gets Exposed
One of the buzzed-about titles at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Going Clear, the new documentary from Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, which takes you behind the scenes of Scientology. The first trailer for the new doc, based on Lawrence Wright’s book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief, has arrived, and it’s as enigmatic as the religion itself.