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STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE

September 5, 2015 By 1 Comment

STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE

There is one moment in STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE that sums up the documentary and the man. It’s when an engineer who worked on the Mac in the 1980s reads the obituary he wrote of Jobs and begins to weep. This after revealing that his three years at Apple cost him his… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Gibney, Apple, Chinese workers suicide, CNN Films, documentary, hi-tech, iPhone, Mac, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, tech industry, zen

GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF

March 20, 2015 By 2 Comments

GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF

Alex Gibney has proven himself an able and engaging documentarian, bringing to light with films such as TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, and most recently THE ARMSTRONG LIE, the hubris, self-deception, and other foibles of human nature that allow people to commit crimes without ever quite admitting to… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Gibney, book to sceen, cinema, cult, documentary, film, IRS, L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence Wright, LGBT, movie, Paul Haggis, religion, scientology, Tom Cruise

Alex Gibney Ponders GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Alex Gibney Ponders  GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON

When I spoke to Alex Gibney on April 8, 2008, the first question was the one that stuck with me from the minute I heard about this documentary. Where do you begin with a man who was larger than life, as was his writing? Gibney, with a succinct erudition, summed up his own struggle with… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Gibney, director, documentary, gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, journalism, politics

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