Director: Alex Gibney, Script: Alex Gibney, Photography: Maryse Alberti, Editor: Alison Ellwood, Production Design: Amanda Ford, Music: David Schwartz, Sound: Tony Volante, With: Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Depp, George Mc Govern, Pat Buchanan, Jann Wenner, Producers: Joana Vicente, Eva Orner, Jason Kliot, Alex Gibney, Stephen Vittoria, Graydon Carter, Alison Elwood, Executive Producers: Alexandra Johnes, Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, Co-Executive Producers: Roy Ackerman, Nick Fraser, Associate Producer: Salimah El-Amin, Production: HDNet Films for Magnolia Pictures
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Selected Filmography- Alex Gibney-Producer:
The Trials of Henry Kissinger, 2002; The Soul of a Man, 2003; Lightning in a Bottle, 2004; Behind Those Eyes, 2005; Independent Lens: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2005; The Human Behavior Experiments, 2006; No End in Sight, 2007; Taxi to the Dark Side, 2007
He was an asshole, but a damn good author, is how one of his contemporaries describes Hunter S. Thompson. The legendary inventor of Gonzo journalism – a mixture of facts, fiction, and a dash of madness – was a man of many contradictions: a patriot and an anarchist, a gun nut and an anti-war activist, a cynic and a hippie. Oscar winner Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the Dark Side") shows the "immoral moralist" who chose to end his life in 2005 to be a brilliant analyst of American politics and society – and, toward the end of his life, also a captive of his own legend. "Gonzo" masterfully intertwines interviews with friends and adversaries with excerpts from his work, recited by Johnny Depp, and with spectacular archive footage of a coke sniffing, cursing, shooting Thompson.