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Johnny Depp To Narrate Doors Documentary

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:10:00 +0000

One thing seemed abundantly clear after Tom DiCillo’s Sundance premiere of his Doors documentary, “When You’re Strange”: the narration sucked.

Or at least to discerning, but cranky critic Jeffrey Wells it did. He enjoyed the doc about the ’60s acid rockers and Jim Morrison, but complained. “It’s stymied time and again by DiCillo’s trite narration. And I mean ‘give me a fucking break’ trite. I began to go crazy listening to DiCillo’s litany of pat cliches,” Wells fumed.

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Don’t Fear & Loathe ‘Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Hunter S. Thompson,’ Just Steer Far Away From Its Cloying Campaign Trail

Rodrigo Perez — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:05:00 +0000

The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. —Hunter S. Thompson, “Midnight on the Coast Highway,” 1965

Do we break it to you now that the great literary sacred cow Hunter S. Thompson was kind of a selfish asshole, idiot manchild or do we wait til the end of the review? But then again he was a brilliant, seminal writer and an important dissenting voice in America culture.

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Will ThinkFilm’s Problems Ever End? Oscar-Winning Documentarian For ‘Taxi’ Sues Company, Independent Film Woes Continue…

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:32:00 +0000

Man, how many breath’s left does indie distributor ThinkFilm/Captiol Films have left in the tank?

Think just shut down their Toronto office, their production of David O. Russell’s “Nailed,” (via Capitol Films, Think is a division of) has been shut down four times midway through production and now filmmaker Alex Gibney, the director of the 2008 Oscar-winning documentary feature “Taxi To The Dark Side” and the upcoming, “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr.

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Trailer: ‘Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Hunter S. Thompson’

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:10:00 +0000

We’re kind of too exhausted to write today, but this doc about gonzo writer/wildman journalistic maverick Hunter S. Thompson looks great. It features talking head testimonials by Johnny Depp, who narrates the entire thing, former U.S. President and humanitarian Jimmy Carter, Pat Buchanan, George McGovern and Jimmy Buffett. The filmmaker Alex Gibney is well-respected for his documentaries having directed “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and this year’s recent Oscar documentary winning-film, “Taxi to the Dark Side.”

From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr.

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