Alex Gibney Articles

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) Mike Nichols-Elaine May's PRIMARY COLORS: Sex Scandals and Politics at the Movies Pt. 5 Directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, the documentary Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer attempts to show that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's downfall was quite possibly set up by his powerful Wall Street enemies. Unlike [...]

Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, about the greed, corruption, and general idiocy that led to the still-lingering global financial meltdown, narrated by Matt Damon Lixin Fan's Last Train Home, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, Alex Gibney's Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for 'Superman', and Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's Restrepo are the Directors Guild of America's nominees for the 2011 [...]

Pat Tillman (left) in Amir Bar-Lev's The Tillman Story The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences haven't officially released their longlist of Best Documentary Feature contenders for the 2011 Oscars, but the 15-film list has already been circulating online thanks to a leak (see "update" below) somewhere inside the Academy. (Deadline was the first site to publish the list; others have followed suit since.) [...]

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