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Sundance Review: Magic Trip

Directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney, Magic Trip is a vibrant time capsule, a treasure trove of images from Ken Kesey and the Merry Band of Pranksters’ cross-country trek to the 1964 World’s Fair.  read more

2010 Person of the Year in Documentary Film: Alex Gibney

It's safe to say that Alex Gibney just turned in one of the most impressive years in the history of documentary film. After winning an Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side, he shot no less than four complete documentary features...  read more

Catching Up With… ESPN Films’ Connor Schell

One of the most audacious documentary projects of 2010 was ESPN’s 30 For 30 series, in which the series found 30 of the best documentarians working today and commissioned a film from each of them on a sports-related event from the last 30 years. Volume 1 of the DVD set came out last month, and Connor Schell, executive producer of both ESPN Films and the 30 for 30 series, spoke with Paste about the series. You can hear the complete interview in the January 6 edition of the Indie Minded Film Podcast on Paste Culture Club....  read more

Casino Jack and the United States of Money DVD review

Alex Gibney just may be the most important documentarian in America, and Casino Jack and the United States of Money certainly doesn’t do anything to diminish that standing. It’s a story so juicy that Kevin Spacey signed on to play the lad role in the narrative film version (entitled, confusingly enough, Casino Jack) as Jack Abramoff, liar, cheater, and all-around bad guy (or, as we call him in America, a lobbyist). It’s difficult to imagine how a narrative film could have been any more intriguing or exciting than Gibney’s treatment here. He’s an expert in the art of pastiche, weaving...  read more

Top 11 Musical Moments in Alex Gibney Films

Counting his compelling segment of Freakonomics, Academy Award winner Alex Gibney has released four documentaries this year alone: Client 9: The Eliot Spitzer Story, Casino Jack: The United States of Money and My Trip to Al Qaeda. We talk with him about his brilliant use of music in each.  read more

Watch Paste's Interview with Casino Jack Director Alex Gibney

Part 1 of a series of Tribeca 2010 interviews Documentarian Alex Gibney has quite a few notches under his belt: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side and Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson to name his most famous films. His most recent film was released theatrically on May 7 by Magnolia Pictures: Casino Jack and the United States of Money, a documentary exploring the career of infamous D.C. lobbyist-cum-shyster Jack Abramoff. Paste caught up with Gibney at Tribeca, wherein he talked about Casino Jack, the creative process and what’s next...  read more

Freakonomics Documentary Coming to Theatres This Fall

In 2007, work began on turning Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s nonfiction best-seller Freakonomics into a documentary. Three years later, Variety+ reports that a team of directors—including Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Alex Gibney (Gonzo), Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, Eugene Jarecki and others—are all involved in the finished project, each adapting one segment of the book for the screen....  read more

Fear and Loathing in Hi-Fi: HST's Gonzo Tapes coming soon

The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a five-disc collection of Thompson’s frenzied ramblings, speed freakouts, and drug-addled insights into The American Psyche will see the light of day for the first time on Oct. 28. The tapes document what Thompsonites consider the high point of the Dr. of Journalism's career ('65-'75), featuring notes and interviews that led to Hell’s Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as numerous unfinished or aborted articles on disparate topics like Sigmund Freud's cocaine habit and the end of the Vietnam war. So expect a lot of unfiltered ramblings about...  read more