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Alex Gibney

June 2024

  • Salman Rushdie in May 2024.

    Salman Rushdie to be subject of documentary inspired by memoir Knife

    Alex Gibney-directed film, based on Rushdie’s memoir, will cover his physical and spiritual healing after 2022 attack

September 2023

  • Paul Simon<br>FILE - Paul Simon performs at Global Citizen Live in Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in New York. “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon” premiered Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is an expansive look at Simon’s decades-spanning career, from growing up in Queens, New York, with Art Garfunkel to the success of “Graceland,” the sensational 1986 album made with South African musicians. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

    Paul Simon says he is ‘beginning to’ accept his hearing loss

    Having a disability ‘changes how you interact with life’, singer-songwriter says, months after revealing he has almost completely lost hearing in his left ear

April 2023

  • ‘I hit bottom’ … the star of Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker in 1985, the year he won his first Wimbledon.

    ‘Brutal monomaniac’: the gripping film about Boris Becker’s astonishing rise and spectacular fall

    The tennis titan with a howitzer serve thought invincibility on the court meant impunity off it. Oscar-winner Alex Gibney reveals how he charted the star’s path from fortunes and trophies to squatters and prison

March 2023

  • Tesla CEO Musk departs the company’s local office in Washington<br>Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his security detail depart the company’s local office in Washington, U.S. January 27, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

    Alex Gibney in the process of making ‘unvarnished’ Elon Musk documentary

    The Oscar-winning film-maker has announced he is months into making Musk, which will examine the controversial entrepreneur

February 2023

  • Boris Becker at Hyatt Grand Champions Stadium, Indian Wells, California, in 1987, in a still fromBoom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker.

    Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker review – ups and downs of a tennis legend

    Alex Gibney’s documentary about the disgraced German tennis star has wonderful archive footage and interviews but is ultimately unrevealing about its subject

December 2021

  • Recreation still of a detainee in a cell in The Forever Prisoner.

    ‘It’s soul-crushing’: the shocking story of Guantánamo Bay’s ‘forever prisoner’

    In Alex Gibney’s harrowing documentary, the tale of Abu Zubaydah, seen as patient zero for the CIA’s torture programme, is explored with horrifying new detailsThis article contains depictions of torture

May 2021

  • The Crime of the Century: ‘That’s what we deserve – the truth about what really happened.’

    ‘The crisis was manufactured’: inside a damning film on the origins of the opioid epidemic

    Alex Gibney’s two-part docuseries The Crime of the Century reframes the opioid crisis as a crime of fraudulent marketing and callous corporate greed

November 2020

  • Totally Under Control - documentary 2020 Directed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Going Clear), along with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, the documentary was shot in secret.

    From Trump's failures to frustration in Wuhan: the rise of Covid documentaries

  • News: Arthur Shawcross Murder Cases<br>Defense lawyer Thomas Cocuzzi questions Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis about her interviews with Arthur Shawcross. in 1990

    'They were not born evil': inside a troubling film on why people kill

October 2020

  • US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-HEALTH-VIRUS<br>A person wearing a mask walks past a bus stop ad on 5th Avenue, October 15, 2020, for the upcoming movie “Borat 2,” featuring actor Sacha Baron Cohen, ahead of its release on October 23. - The poster gives reference to the Covid-19 pandemic by replacing Borats iconic green mankini with a face mask. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Borat v Trump: can entertainment really affect an election?

    Sacha Baron Cohen’s targeted comedy sequel joins a host of urgent documentaries and TV shows released weeks before the US heads to the polls
  • Totally Under Control poster

    'They refused to act': inside a chilling documentary on Trump's bungled Covid-19 response

    Totally Under Control recounts the early days of the pandemic in the US, revealing in clinical detail a disastrous federal response to a preventable crisis
  • Totally Under Control

    Totally Under Control review – shocking film on Trump's failure to handle Covid-19

    Alex Gibney’s eye-opening documentary, made in secret, assembles a damning, if frustratingly incomplete, timeline of a government ill-equipped to deal with a deadly pandemic

September 2020

  • A worker sanitises the Rialto bridge in Venice.

    Venice prepares to welcome guests to Covid-safe film festival

    Face masks, distanced screenings and temperature scanners are part of measures

October 2019

  • Citizen K, documentary film by Alex Gibney, considers the strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement Mikhail Khodorkovsky looks on from behind a glass enclosure at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Khodorkovsky, 47, is in the final year of an eight-year sentence after being convicted of tax evasion, and the new conviction on charges of embezzlement and money laundering could keep him behind bars for several more years. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)

    Citizen K review – strange tale of the oligarch who became Putin's nemesis

    Alex Gibney’s absorbing new documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky charts the Russian businessman’s transformation from plutocrat to political dissident

July 2019

  • Brad Pitt in Ad Astra

    Ad Astra and Joker to premiere at Venice film festival

    Hollywood heavyweights line up to launch their awards runs at Venice, which is courting criticism for also including Roman Polanski’s new film in competition

June 2019

  • Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey

    Police drop investigation into journalists who made Loughinisland film

  • No Stone Unturned film still SHOOTING: LOUGHINISLAND. The scene of the massacre in O'Tooles Bar (The Heights). Six men were shot dead by two U.V.F gunmen, while they were watching the 1994 World Cup on television.

    Is Northern Ireland a democracy or a police state?

    Susan McKay

March 2019

  • A still from The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

    The Inventor review – ordinary documentary about extraordinary crime

    The fascinating story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal is frustratingly underexplored in Alex Gibney’s disappointing new film

October 2018

  • President Donald Trump outside the West Wing at the White House.

    'How to stop an out-of-control president': the Trump films that may swing the midterms

    US elections and awards season have led to documentaries about Trump from both sides of the political divide. But how do we separate the lies from the truth?

February 2018

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    Observer New Review Q&A
    Alex Gibney: ‘Every business Trump touched withered and died’

    The documentary-maker on his new Netflix series, Trump’s trail of slime and how tennis keeps him sane
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