Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023

After a three-and-a-half-hour documentary on his life, Paul Simon had only sympathy for the audience.

"You're probably exhausted," Simon told the crowd after the premiere of Alex Gibney's "In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon" on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival....

Wednesday, May. 5, 2021

Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO's two-part documentary "The Crime of the Century" opens with a body bag.

It contained a man from San Diego — his remains carried away in the predawn hours after overdosing on fentanyl — one of nearly a half million Americans to die from...

Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019

The Toronto International Film Festival® documentary program reveals its lineup of 25 non-fiction works, including 18 World Premieres with representation from 18 countries. The films cover many high-profile figures, both famous and infamous—including Truman Capote, Merce Cunningham, Ron Howard,...

Friday, Jan. 25, 2019

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has always been interested in the psychology of fraud and self-deception. So when HBO CEO Richard Plepler and Graydon Carter proposed that he look into the blood-testing startup Theranos and its charismatic young leader Elizabeth Holmes, saying yes was a "no-...

Monday, Jan. 21, 2019

For documentary filmmakers, there's no place like the Sundance Film Festival.

The mountainside festival which kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, has become known for launching nonfiction films to box office successes and awards, and this year is shaping up to be no different. The...

Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018

Roger Ailes might not always have been a household name during his time at Fox News, but many media commentators believe he changed the TV landscape forever. As the architect of the conservative cable news channel, Ailes created a beacon for what he deemed as an underserved news market.

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Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016

The inspiration for director Otto Bell’s first feature documentary came in the form of a photo essay from still lenser Asher Svidensky that appeared on the BBC website and included shots of Aisholpan, a 13-year-old nomadic Kazakh girl living in Mongolia and aspiring to be an eagle hunter. This...

Thursday, Jul. 7, 2016

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney believes the first atomic bomb of the cyberwarfare age has already been dropped.

That bomb was Stuxnet, a computer virus that's the subject of Gibney's latest movie, "Zero Days." Stuxnet disrupted an Iranian uranium-enrichment facility...

Friday, Feb. 12, 2016

After working 18 years at "The Daily Show," Kahane Cooperman had only a weekend off last summer before starting a job running Amazon's new video version of The New Yorker magazine.

In retrospect, she considers that a blessing.

"I would have...

Thursday, Sep. 3, 2015

Was Steve Jobs a brilliant visionary whose singular mind, capable of blending art, technology and commerce as never before, inspired the world to "think different" and changed the way we live?

Or was he a ruthless businessman who treated co-workers...

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