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THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

March 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

Alex Gibney makes a subtle, but salient, point in THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY. While recounting the curious story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the billion-dollar company she founded, he draws the obvious comparison between Holmes and her idol, Thomas Edison, but he doesn’t stop there. Using the tropes of a suspense… Read More »

Tagged With: blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes, lab tests, medical testing, self-made billionaire, Silicon Valley, Theranos

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

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