Tag: Alex Gibney
2026 TIFF: Major Venice Titles Snubbed – Ashley Duong, Carol Nguyen & Sophie Deraspe Selected for TIFF Docus
Programming-wise, we expected a bit more of a copy-and-paste approach from Venice to Toronto this year. Instead, documentary programmer Thom Powers largely prioritized world...
2026 Venice: Gibney, Kopple, Kossakovsky, Loktev, Lorentzen, Dweck/Kershaw & Mariano Llinás in S-tier Level Docs Line-Up!
This is not hyperbole. The Venice Film Festival have unveiled perhaps the most stacked Out-of-Competition Non-Fiction line-up in decades. It's a who's who list...
2026 Venice Film Festival: Projecting the Lido Lineup – 82 Titles in All!
Next week we will know the line ups for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the 41st International Critics’ Week picks...
Amma Asante, Florian Zeller, Mike Leigh, Michael Dowse, Kamila Andini Among Our TIFF 2026 Predictions
What will surely be a flurry of festival announcements in the coming week ahead, we now shift our attention to the 2026 fall festival...
2026 Sundance: Josephine Decker, David Wain, Macon Blair, Jay Duplass , Olivia Wilde & Gregg Araki in Premieres Section
Lots of familiar Park City faces are among the fiction and non-fiction heavyweights that make up the Premieres section. Josephine Decker brings Chasing Summer...
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
Sundance ’15: Amy Berg, Kirby Dick, Alex Gibney Fire Up Documentary Premieres Section
A section that throws the competitive spirit out the window, but actively becomes part of the year-end docu-talk, last year's dozen minus one offerings...
What’s Up Doc?: Louie Psihoyos Tops Our *New* Monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated Docs Guide
They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while...
The Armstrong Lie | Blu-ray Review
Lance Armstrong is proof that even the best liars eventually fold to the burden of ugly truths. Under the immense pressures of competitor accusations...
Sundance 2014: Latest From Amir Bar-Lev, Alex Gibney, Steve James, Joe Berlinger & Greg Barker in Docu Premieres
2014 is turning out to be a damn fine year for docus in Park City and we're not even mentioning the Competition line-up here....
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s Finding Fela!
Pop quiz. When was the last time that Alex Gibney did not bring a film to the annual snowflake friendly fest? Even in years...
2013 TIFF: Gibney, Posin, Turturro, Kevin Macdonald & Sean Durkin Fill Up Special Presentations
With only the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters programmes left to be determined, TIFF head programmers dished out the final make-up of the Galas, Special...
Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman
With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival, it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...
SPC Grab the Yellow Jersey for Gibney’s Long Awaited Lance Armstrong Docu
Formerly going by the title of Lance Armstrong: The Road Back, and now going by The Armstrong Lie, tipped for a TIFF premiere and...
Interview: Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks)
Just a month before Bradley Manning finally appeared before a military judge to confess that he did indeed leak thousands of sensitive military documents,...
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks | Review
Gibney Ciphers Assange's Brain Child
Back up a few years and you probably never had heard the name Julian Assange or his tiny little whistle-blowing...
The Last Gladiators | Review
Fight Club: Gibney Finds Tragedy In 'Knuckles' Nilan
The assiduous docu director Alex Gibney wrapped three films back in 2011, all of which seem minor...
Interview: Alex Gibney (Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God)
A crime story that spans decades, takes place on multiple continents and sees the most noble of authority figures involved in a vast cover-up....
2013 Sundance Film Fest: Cream of the Crop Premiere Docu offerings from Kopple, Gibney, Cutler, Junger and Lucy Walker
Sundance is really loading up on docs this year - a section that contained eight or so offerings in 2012 now holds almost a...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s The Road Back
No stranger to the Sundance Film Festival, over the recent years, Alex Gibney has premiered Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Sundance '05),...
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Review
Gibney Exposes Suppression Of Truth Behind Ministerial Molestation
After taking a breather from feature hardline journalism with a series of lighter docs in Catching Hell,...
