After taking both big government and big business thoroughly to task in Taxi to the Darkside and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, it is perhaps fitting that Academy Award-winning documentary director Alex Gibney has now turned his attention to chronicling the life of the iconic Hunter S. Thompson. As court jester of the American counterculture, Thompson himself was often a David in the midst of the Goliaths he covered. As befits its larger-than-life subject, Gibney’s portrait weaves together nearly every tool available to the medium, including found footage of Thompson himself; interviews with everyone from George McGovern to Pat Buchanan; and re-enactments of the author’s bizarre tactics to get the story at any cost.

Presented as part of the Depth of Field 2008-2009 Series: Moving Images, Moving Art

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