Topic: Alex Gibney

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Time Out New York - 652 days ago
Last week, documentary director Alex Gibney rode a wave of Tribeca buzz with a work-in-progress, about disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer. If we're to judge from the productive Gibney's other new film-a profile of convicted influence peddler Jack Abramoff-Eliot and Ashley can ...

The war on torture

ThisIsLondon.co.uk - 1344 days ago
In 2002, a young Afghan cab driver picked up some passengers near his home and drove off. That's the starting point of Alex Gibney's impressive, Oscar-winning documentary, which accuses the Bush administration of appalling mistreatment of prisoners in Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib in ...