Alex Gibney

Birth Name:

Philip Alexander Gibney

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Sound department, Editor, Editorial department

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie

Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker

First Look: HBO's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown Highlights the Music Legend's Activism

Papa's got a brand new documentary. HBO's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown chronicles the singer's journey from his early days at the Apollo Theater to his height as...

Fri, Oct 24, 2014

First Look: HBO's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown Highlights the Music Legend's Activism

Enron DVD Exposé Hits as Trial Nears

Enron spent 16 years building up $65 billion in assets. It took a mere 24 days to lose it all. However, American history's largest corporate bankruptcy is not simply an arcane tale of accounting practices and financial formulas gone horribly awry. In director Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (now out on DVD), the scandal is illuminated as a tragedy of human frailties and hubris, the type of saga that would make Shakespeare or the Greek masters proud. Based on the best-selling book written by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is not your normal investigative documentary. Rather, Gibney's film combines gripping visuals, an eclectic pop-music score and pithy voice-over to give viewers a real sense of t

Tue, Jan 17, 2006