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Barbra Streisand has announced an in-the-works, multi-part documentary that will delve into her personal archives and chronicle her storied career. The singer/actress/activist has teamed with fellow EGOT-winning producer Frank Marshall and documentarian Alex Gibney on the project, with Streisand providing “hundreds of hours of personal, never-before-seen video, photographs, audio recordings, …

In January 2019, Paul Simon awoke from a dream. Some voice in his head had informed him, deep within his REM cycle, that he was going to work on a project called “Seven Psalms.” The singer-songwriter behind “The Sound of Silence,” “A Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” “Love Me Like a …

Paul Simon may not yet have come to terms with the hearing loss in his left ear, but he is “beginning to.” The 81-year-old singer-songwritertalked about his ailment and ability to continue performing at a post-screening Q&A forIn Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, which premiered at the Toronto …

Alex Gibney, perhaps the world’s most prolific documentary filmmaker at the moment, has an obsession with power — and hubris. He’s taken on everyone from corrupt corporate execs (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and the Church of Scientology (Going Clear) to Theranos grifter Elizabeth Holmes (The Inventor) and …

An early scene in Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker, a new two-part documentary about the German tennis great who famously won Wimbledon at the age of 17 before going down like the Hindenburg, encapsulates what’s made the athlete such a controversial figure. Ion Tiriac, a Romanian businessman who …

“Another day, another request to talk about Pornhub.” That’s what I thought when director Suzanne Hillinger and Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions asked me to appear in their new Netflix documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story. The film recounts how Pornhub exploded in popularity until The New York Times’s …

Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, announced on Monday that he has been working on a documentary about Elon Musk, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is already months into production, according to the report, and is described as a “definitive …