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"I was running a fever of rage over how badly the [COVID-19] response was being handled by the federal government," says the Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney onThe Hollywood Reporter'sAwards Chatter podcast as we discuss what inspired his latest documentary, Totally Under Control, which he directed with his Jigsaw Productions colleagues Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger. The trio began work on the film last spring with the goal of determining if the deadly mistakes of PresidentDonald Trump and his administration had been avoidable, and then sharing their findings with the world before the Nov.

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Virtual DOC NYC Reveals 2020 Lineup

DOC NYC, the documentary film festival set to run Nov. 11-19 in New York City, has unveiled its virtual 2020 edition lineup, with 23 world premieres, including Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker's The Meaning of Hitler and Gong Cheng and Yung Chang's Wuhan Wuhan.

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Get Ready for a Flood of Political Movies Leading Up to the Election

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith only three weeks before a particularly consequential Election Day, political movies — both documentaries and docudramas — are flooding the market in an effort to keep voters engaged and enraged.Most prominent are Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Alex Gibney’s pandemic response expose “Totally Under Control” and Liz Garbus-Lisa Cortés’ “All In: The Fight for Democracy.”But that’s just the tip of the political iceberg of movies taking advantage of the heightened political climate this month.

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‘Totally Under Control’ Director Alex Gibney on How NDAs and Political Posturing Devastated America’s Pandemic Response

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorDonald Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis brought all the chaos and contradictions of the pandemic into sharp focus.

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'Totally Under Control': Film Review

There's no doubting why Totally Under Control, a doc about a pandemic whose end is nowhere in sight, would be released —first in drive-ins, then VOD, then on Hulu —in the weeks leading up to the presidential election: Directors Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan believe, as all fact-valuing people do, that the current administration has fared so badly in 2020 that a new one must be brought in to clean up the mess.

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‘Totally Under Control’: Alex Gibney’s Viciously On-Point Doc Shows How Trump’s Admin Utterly Blew The COVID Response [Review]

Given that it lays out in unsparing terms the extent of a staggering American failure that ranks up there with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, “Totally Under Control” is a surprisingly calm piece of work. A damning account of how the greatest technological, scientific, and military power on the planet laid down and allowed a pandemic to march right over it, the documentary is filled with eyewitnesses to the clown show who still don’t appear able to process what they saw.

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‘Totally Under Control’ Review: Pre-Election Coronavirus Doc Cuts Through Chaos to Show Reckless Endangerment at the Top

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticDrama critics have a word for COVID-19, courtesy of the ancient Greeks: “nemesis.” In theater, this useful term of art applies to the inevitable downfall that awaits the wicked, the prideful and the overly confident. Decades from now, historians will look back on the coronavirus outbreak as the thing that derailed President Donald J.

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'Totally Under Control' Trailer: Alex Gibney Examines Trump, Government's Response to COVID-19

As the world continues to face the novel coronavirus pandemic, the first look at a new documentary aimed to examine the government's response to the virus and "uncover the truth" has been released. The first trailer for Alex Gibney's doc, Totally Under Control— a title quoting President's Donald Trump affirmation that everything is "totally under control" with COVID-19 — was released Friday.

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Secret Documentary About Donald Trump’s COVID-19 Response To Be Released

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger teamed up to film a secret documentary titled, “Totally Under Control”.

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'Totally Under Control': Oscar-Winning Filmmaker's Secret Movie About Coronavirus Pandemic Will Be Released This Month

A brand new documentary is being released this month and it will take a look at how President Trump handled the coronavirus pandemic.

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Totally Under Control Documentary Trailer

Donald Trump. The president revealed on Thursday night that he and his wife Melania Trump have been diagnosed with coronavirus, following the news that his top aide Hope Hicks tested positive on Wednesday.

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‘Totally Under Control’ Trailer: Alex Gibney’s New Documentary Is A Damning Look At Trump’s Botched COVID-19 Response

Absolutely no in the world of documentaries moves as fast as Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. Known for award-winning docs like “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” (his CV is outrageously long) Gibney already unveiled “Agents Of Chaos” this fall, on September 23 on HBO, a timely and revealing look at Russia’s interference into the 2016 election.

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Alex Gibney’s ‘Agents of Chaos’ Tries Gamely to Make Sense of Russian Election Interference: TV Review

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticConnecting the seemingly infinite threads of online trolling, Russian subterfuge and the astonishing evolution of American politics has become a favorite past-time of impassioned intellectuals raging against the Trump administration. In trying to pinpoint all the significant factors that led to Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory, some have identified Russia’s interest in American affairs as the key to understanding how we got to where we are today.

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Alex Gibney's Jigsaw, Leon Neyfakh Producing Podcast on Russian Political Warfare

Russia's influence over American politics is the subject of a new podcast from Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, Leon Neyfakh's Prologue Projects and Cadence13. Whirlwind, which will look at the 75-year tensions between the U.S.

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Bleecker Street Nabs Animated Doc 'The Klarsfelds' From Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney

Alexis Bloom is set to direct animated documentary The Klarsfelds, with Bleecker Street acquiring theU.S. rights.

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Bleecker Street Acquires Animated Documentary Thriller ‘The Klarsfelds’

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBleecker Street has secured U.S. rights to Alexis Bloom’s animated feature Nazi-hunting documentary thriller, The Klarsfelds.The docu follows the true history of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, a dedicated husband and wife team of agents who are still alive and living in Paris.

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'Crazy, Not Insane': Film Review | Venice 2020

The day before Ted Bundy's execution, at his request he spoke with psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis, an expert witness for his defense, for more than four hours. Of all the professionals he'd dealt with in the three and a half years since his arrest, he felt that she was the one who was interested in the why rather than the how of his murderous deeds.

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Alex Gibney Talks Upcoming Docs, Says U.S. Federal Response To COVID “Utterly Failed” – Venice

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorOscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney had some choice words about the Trump administration today as he Zoom-ed into the Venice Film Festival to discuss Crazy Not Insane, his out of competition title that’s playing here. It focuses on Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who assesses the sanity of people on death row before they are to be executed and examines what makes someone a serial killer. Gibney came across her as part of research for a scripted project he’s working on with Laura Dern, he said. Dern narrates Crazy, Not Insane.

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Alex Gibney, Neon Team for Trump COVID-19 Response Doc 'Totally Under Control'

Neon has picked up Alex Gibney’s latest documentary, Totally Under Control, about U.S. president Donald Trump's failed response to the global Coronavirus pandemic, for an October theatrical release.

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‘Totally Under Control’: Neon To Release Alex Gibney Docu About White House’s Failed Response To Pandemic

Dino-Ray Ramos editorAs film and TV try their best to get back into production amidst the constraints of a global pandemic, Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has been quietly filming a documentary for the past four months with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger. The project, titled Totally Under Control puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and how it could have been prevented.

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Showtime Documentary ‘Kingdom of Silence’ To Premiere On Two-Year Anniversary Of Jamal Khashoggi Murder

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticShowtime will premiere its original documentary Kingdom of Silence about the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 2 – the two-year anniversary of Khashoggi’s death.Directed by Emmy-winning Documenting Hate filmmaker Rick Rowley and exec-produced by Alex Gibney in collaboration with Lawrence Wright, Kingdom of Silence examines the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as a backdrop to the murder of Khashoggi.

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