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Viewing Tip: Alex Gibney’s My Trip to al-Qaeda
Among the forty-plus titles I’ll be seeing in Toronto we have Alex Gibney’s Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer, but if I wanted to see his latest work, I’d check out what the hardest working documentary filmmaker is about to release tonite.
Among the forty-plus titles I’ll be seeing in Toronto we have Alex Gibney’s Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer, but if I wanted to see his latest work, I’d check out what the hardest working documentary filmmaker is about to release tonite.
In 2006, Lawrence Wright (the author who saw his The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 was on the top of the NYTimes Best Seller list for a couple of months) premiered his one-man play, “My Trip to al-Qaeda,” at The New Yorker Festival. It was made into a docu by Gibney, and basically demonstrates how Wright’s struggled to maintain objectivity (lord knows he wasn’t the only one) as a journalist in the wake of 9/11.
Gibney’s My Trip to al-Qaeda is preeming on HBO (9:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT).
