Posts Tagged ‘Alex Gibney’
Film Review – Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is everything you want in a biopic documentary: able to look at the subject through a human lens, able to acknowledge the faults as much as the success of the person, and able to realize that the complexity of an individual can never be…
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Film Review – Finding Fela!
Musical documentaries are quickly becoming the most difficult to review. Music is one of the most subjective things to describe what is good and what is bad. Telling a Megadeth fan that Taylor Swift is an important artist and vice versa is not likely to…
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Top 10 2013 – Adelaide’s List
I don’t watch a lot of new films because I am middle-aged and grumpy, and I want to watch things when I want to watch them, not when they are in the theaters. So every year my “best of” list is about what I watched…
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Film Review – The Armstrong Lie
Lance Armstrong is a big fat lying liar. No debate there. But he’s a liar in a sport where everybody cheats and everybody lies about it, so who really cares? Quite a lot of people, actually. For some reason, bicycle racing fans have been able…
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SIFF Interview – Alex Gibney – We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Spencer interviews director Alex Gibney from the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks at SIFF 2013. This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes and YouTube. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here.
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SIFF Film Review – We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
I can’t imagine there is anyone out there who hasn’t heard of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, or Bradley Manning, but just in case, here’s a little background. WikiLeaks is a website founded by Australian hacker/activist Julian Assange in 2006. Assange’s mission is to create transparency where…
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