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What is your favorite?

haven't seen any
3 (33.3%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
other
0 (0%)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
0 (0%)
Behind Those Eyes (2005)
0 (0%)
Time Piece (2006)
0 (0%)
The Human Behavior Experiments (2006)
0 (0%)
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
0 (0%)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)
0 (0%)
My Trip to Al-Qaeda (2010)
0 (0%)
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
0 (0%)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
0 (0%)
Freakonomics (2010)
0 (0%)
Catching Hell (2011)
2 (22.2%)
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
0 (0%)
The Last Gladiators (2011)
0 (0%)
Dear Governor Cuomo (2012)
0 (0%)
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (2012)
0 (0%)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
0 (0%)
The Armstrong Lie (2013)
0 (0%)
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
1 (11.1%)
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014)
1 (11.1%)
Finding Fela! (2014)
0 (0%)
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015)
0 (0%)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
0 (0%)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
0 (0%)
Zero Days (2016)
2 (22.2%)
No Stone Unturned (2017)
0 (0%)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
0 (0%)
Citizen K (2019)
0 (0%)
Totally Under Control (2020)
0 (0%)
Agents of Chaos (2020)
0 (0%)
The Crime of the Century (2021)
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Author Topic: Gibney, Alex  (Read 2208 times)

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Re: Gibney, Alex
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2017, 02:23:16 PM »
Excellent selections.

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Re: Gibney, Alex
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2017, 06:13:46 PM »
I was going to try to get ahold of Mea Maxima Culpa but could not find it. I also has Enron but the DVD was in a terrible state and I gave up on watching it at all 5 minutes in. This seems like good enough work for one session. I have a couple more docs on me I should probably get to before more Gibney. I will try to come back to him next year though.
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Re: Gibney, Alex
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2017, 09:40:51 AM »
Catching Hell, 55°
Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, 40°
Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, 35°
Ceasefire Massacre, 35°
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Re: Gibney, Alex
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2017, 05:01:23 AM »
Gibney served as executive producer for Parched "a three-part companion series to 'Water & Power: A California Heist,' and investigates water wars from West Virginia and Michigan to Syria and India. The series explores the corporate, political and social interests that are responsible for our water-limited future."

Parched will have a limited theatrical release.  Nat Geo will air it as a limited series (Money Flows, Toxic Waters, Global Water Wars) starting March 21.  Water & Power: A California Heist (a feature-length doc) will air on March 14.
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Re: Gibney, Alex
« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2017, 01:17:06 AM »
1. Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2. Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief

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Re: Gibney, Alex
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2021, 08:23:08 PM »
Updated Rankings

The Armstrong Lie (2013)
★ ★ ★ - Okay
Gibney is obsessed with what drove Lance Armstrong’s decision to attempt a comeback, one which imploded when the cyclist’s doping scandal came out. He seems to believe if Armstrong stayed out of the spotlight he would’ve gotten away with it, but I’m not so sure because the scandal was bubbling right at the surface all the time. He also seems frustrated to not have a definitive answer to his question, which misses all the evidence of a person who saw stagnation as death, someone who had to keep rewriting his myth even if/though it destroyed him.


Totally Under Control (2020)
★ ★
Bondo is right. With all the insight of a prime time news special, Gibney is on autopilot recapping the mismanagement of the COVID pandemic. There’s a little more about the flaw in the initial test, that allowed the US Government to essentially stop testing people completely, believing this would keep the numbers down. It’s the decision of an idiot, topped only by what I think is Trump’s most destructive moment, when he off-handed commented that wearing a mask is voluntary and he wouldn’t be doing it. There’s also a bit of Michael Moore muckraking, which I hope is because of this particular outrage and not a new spin Gibney plans to use.