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Alex Gibney is one of the most important documentarists at work today. Two of his recent films - Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, about high-level corporate corruption in America, and Taxi to the Dark Side, an account of US military interrogation and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq - are essential viewing for anyone seeking an understanding of our times. His films are sober, carefully crafted and thoroughly researched, politically committed but not propagandistic, and deeply felt without focusing the camera on his own bleeding heart.

Gonzo: The Life and Works of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

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Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation"

mattnyc99 writes "Esquire is running a a jaw-dropping profile of MacArthur genius Marc Roth in their annual Best and Brightest roundup, detailing how this gonzo DNA scientist (who also figured out how to diagnose lupus correctly) went from watching his infant daughter die to literally reincarnating animals. Inspired by NOVA and funded by DARPA, Roth has developed a serum for major biotech startup Ikaria that successfully accomplished "suspended animation" — the closest we've ever come to simulating near-death experiences and then coming back to life. From the article: 'We don't know what life is, anyway. Not really. We just know what life does — it burns oxygen. It's a process of combustion. We're all just slow-burning candles, making our way through our allotment of precious O2 until it becomes our toxin, until we burn out, until we

Benicio Del Toro

He was a usual suspect, in The Usual Suspects, and looked right at home in the police line-up. He was a Bond villain - the youngest ever, at 21 - in Licence To Kill. And he was mad Doctor Gonzo, the attorney who rode shotgun with Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He has battled addiction (in 21 Grams and Things We Lost In The Fire) and was a morally ambiguous narcotics cop in Traffic. He has played a long line of Latino low lifes. He walks, in his films, on the wild side, in the shoes of marginal types consumed by obsession.

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