Hot off dropping three documentaries last year — "Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief," "Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine," and "Frank Sinatra: All Or Nothing" — director Alex Gibney kicks off the year with another one, "Zero Day," which doesn't need a snappy subtitle to sell its chilling premise. Read More: Berlin Review: Alex Gibney's Chilling Cyber-Espionage Documentary 'Zero Day' Rather, the trailer does it all by itself, with Gibney's latest work diving into the Stuxnet virus, and the frightening implications it could have on our day-to-day life, the secrecy that surrounds it, and the deadly impact that it's already making. Here's the official synopsis: 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...
- 2/17/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
2014 is now in full swing, the Sundance Film Festival has closed its doors, and film festivals like South by Southwest and Tribeca are generating more buzz for the year’s noteworthy indie narratives and documentaries. In recent years, documentaries such as Restrepo, Gasland, and Searching For Sugarman went on to become heavyweights. This year’s contenders include topics taken from popular memoirs and biographies, along with subject matter pertaining to youths and youth culture. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of Sundance and non-Sundance documentaries to keep an eye out for this year, equipped with official synopsis and trailer when available. 2014 is shaping out to a versatile year in the documentary world, ranging from heavy-handed family dramas such as Tracy Droz Tragos’ and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill, to baseball biographies such as Chapman and Maclain Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball and Jeff Radice’s No No A Dockumentary,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
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