person:alex gibney

  • Un père horrible - le fils de Hunter S. Thompson raconte
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxgSqS8ep8

    Who Was Hunter S. Thompson? His Private Life - Biography (2016)

    Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.

    Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030... The film Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) depicts heavily fictionalized attempts by Thompson to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 U.S. presidential election. It stars Bill Murray as Thompson and Peter Boyle as Thompson’s attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta, referred to in the movie as Carl Lazlo, Esq. The 1998 film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was directed by Monty Python veteran Terry Gilliam, and starred Johnny Depp (who moved into Thompson’s basement to “study” Thompson’s persona before assuming his role in the film) as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. The film has achieved something of a cult following. The film adaptation of Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary was released in October 2011, also starring Johnny Depp as the main character, Paul Kemp. The novel’s premise was inspired by Thompson’s own experiences in Puerto Rico. The film was written and directed by Bruce Robinson.[77] At a press junket for The Rum Diary shortly before the film’s release, Depp said that he would like to adapt The Curse of Lono, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”, and Hell’s Angels for the big screen: “I’d just keep playing Hunter. There’s a great comfort in it for me, because I get a great visit with my old friend who I miss dearly.”[78] Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (1978) is an extended television profile by the BBC. It can be found on disc 2 of The Criterion Collection edition of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Mitchell brothers, owners of the O’Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, made a documentary about Thompson in 1988 called Hunter S. Thompson: The Crazy Never Die. Wayne Ewing created three documentaries about Thompson. The film Breakfast with Hunter (2003) was directed and edited by Ewing. It documents Thompson’s work on the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his arrest for drunk driving, and his subsequent fight with the court system. When I Die (2005) is a video chronicle of making Thompson’s final farewell wishes a reality, and documents the send-off itself. Free Lisl: Fear and Loathing in Denver (2006) chronicles Thompson’s efforts in helping to free Lisl Auman, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the shooting of a police officer, a crime she didn’t commit. All three films are only available online.[79] In Come on Down: Searching for the American Dream[80] (2004) Thompson gives director Adamm Liley insight into the nature of the American Dream over drinks at the Woody Creek Tavern. Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006) was directed by Tom Thurman, written by Tom Marksbury, and produced by the Starz Entertainment Group. The original documentary features interviews with Thompson’s inner circle of family and friends, but the thrust of the film focuses on the manner in which his life often overlapped with numerous Hollywood celebrities who became his close friends, such as Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Thompson’s wife Anita, son Juan, former Senators George McGovern and Gary Hart, writers Tom Wolfe and William F. Buckley, actors Gary Busey and Harry Dean Stanton, and the illustrator Ralph Steadman among others. Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson (2006), produced, directed, photographed and edited by Blue Kraning, is a documentary about the scores of fans who volunteered their privately owned artillery to fire the ashes of the late author, Hunter S. Thompson. Blasted!!! premiered at the 2006 Starz Denver International Film Festival, part of a tribute series to Hunter S. Thompson held at the Denver Press Club. In 2008, Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) wrote and directed a documentary on Thompson, titled Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. The film premiered on January 20, 2008, at the Sundance Film Festival. Gibney uses intimate, never-before-seen home videos, interviews with friends, enemies and lovers, and clips from films adapted from Thompson’s material to document his turbulent life.

    #USA #littérature #journalisme #famille #violence

  • Over 150 filmmakers and photojournalists call on major camera manufacturers to build encryption into their cameras
    Including Laura Poitras, Alex Gibney and Joshua Oppenheimer.

    https://freedom.press/news/over-150-filmmakers-and-photojournalists-call-major-camera-manufacturers-

    https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3238288/Camera-Encryption-Letter.pdf

    We, the undersigned documentary filmmakers and photojournalists, are writing to urge your company to build encryption features into your still photo and video camera products. These features, which are currently missing from all commercial cameras on the market, are needed to protect our safety and security, as well as that of our sources and subjects worldwide.

    Without encryption capabilities, photographs and footage that we take can be examined and searched by the police, military, and border agents in countries where we operate and travel, and the consequences can be dire.

    #Canon #Nikon #Sony #Fuji
    #encryption
    #press #photographer #photographe

  • Film: Zero Days, by Alex Gibney

    https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php

    In his new film, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme.

    However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably. Although to this day officially denied, Stuxnet was created by two allied forces who were each pursuing their own agendas, and in doing so opened up the Pandora’s box of cyber warfare …

    In Gibney’s film, insiders chronicle the development of a programme code-named ‘Olympic Games’ – a malware which can paralyse the infrastructure of entire states in a split second without leaving any trace of those responsible. This story of a source code that caused severe damage outside cyberspace becomes a cautionary tale about the dangers of unfettered technologies and uncontrolled political power.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQExJ0aOYA

    During the reporting of “Zero days”, the existence of another programme was uncovered: Nitro Zeus:

    U.S. Had Cyberattack Plan if Iran Nuclear Dispute Led to Conflict

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/middleeast/us-had-cyberattack-planned-if-iran-nuclear-negotiations-failed.html

    The plan, code-named Nitro Zeus, was devised to disable Iran’s air defences, communications systems and crucial parts of its power grid, and was shelved, at least for the foreseeable future, after the nuclear deal struck between Iran and six other nations last summer was fulfilled.

    Nitro Zeus was part of an effort to assure President Obama that he had alternatives, short of a full-scale war, if Iran lashed out at the United States or its allies in the region.

    #stuxnet
    #malware
    #cyber_warfare

  • Les Etats-Unis avaient prévu une cyber-attaque contre l’Iran
    http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2016/02/17/les-etats-unis-avaient-prevu-une-cyber-attaque-contre-l-iran_4867018_3210.ht

    C’est la plus importante attaque militaire informatique jamais préparée. Sous le nom de code « #Nitro_Zeus », les Etats-Unis ont envisagé de neutraliser les défenses aériennes, les réseaux de communication, les usines et les centrales électriques de l’Iran, si les négociations visant à stopper son programme nucléaire militaire échouaient – elles ont débouché sur un accord diplomatique en 2015.

    Cette opération secrète d’une ampleur inédite a été révélée par un documentaire d’Alex Gibney, « Zero Days », diffusé mercredi 17 février au festival de Berlin. Le New York Times s’est fait confirmer les grandes lignes du plan par des sources au Pentagone, à la Maison Blanche et auprès de la Direction du renseignement national. L’une d’elles indique que « les Etats-Unis n’avaient jamais bâti un plan cyber-offensif à cette échelle ».

    Nitro Zeus est la suite de l’opération « Jeux olympiques » qui avait endommagé les centrifugeuses iraniennes de Natanz, dans le centre du pays, avec le virus #Stuxnet. Décidée en 2010, alors qu’Israël menaçait l’Iran d’une frappe préemptive, la nouvelle opération du Pentagone visait à offrir un plan d’urgence à Barack Obama en cas d’escalade militaire. Il s’agissait cette fois d’infiltrer les réseaux informatiques iraniens avec des « implants » capables de prendre la main sur les activités industrielles du pays, mais aussi d’attaquer directement ses infrastructures, sur l’ordre du président Obama.

  • Plus de 100 documentaires en téléchargement gratuit et légal - Multimédia - FocusVif.be
    http://focus.levif.be/culture/multimedia/plus-de-100-documentaires-en-telechargement-gratuit-et-legal/article-normal-11010.html

    Parmi la liste, on retrouve notamment le Black Panthers de la géniale Agnès Varda, The Corporation de Jennifer Abbott et Mark Achbar avec Michael Moore et Noam Chomsky, le magique L’île aux fleurs de Jorge Furtado, Gonzo d’Alex Gibney sur la vie de Hunter S. Thompson, le très ample La Commune de Peter Watkins... Par contre, gratuit oblige (?), sans doute un peu trop de documentaires conspirationnistes voire négationnistes s’y retrouvent. On évitera par exemple Une demi-heure pour découvrir le revisionnisme ou les films des antisémites notoires Vincent Reynouard et Robert Faurisson. Qu’à cela ne tienne, on ne va pas bouder notre plaisir pour le reste...

  • Annotated Transcript of “We Steal Secrets” by Alex Gibney
    http://justice4assange.com/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html

    This document is an annotated transcript of the anti-#WikiLeaks documentary “We Steal Secrets: The story of WikiLeaks”. It opens on May 24, 2013 (tomorrow). The documentary was commissioned by Universal for $2 million. The commission went to US film maker Alex Gibney, who is listed as the film’s director and producer.

    The film is filled with factual errors and speculation, the most serious of which are set out below. The stock footage used has also been heavily edited, in some places distorting what was said.