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Gibney's "Taxi To The Dark Side" Premieres in TriBeCa Film Fest

Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com on what Gibney's torture documentary makes him want to do after seeing the film: "I wanted to get stinking drunk in some dead-end bar (not the actual ones available on 23rd Street, where the drinks come in funny colors and cost $14) and scream at strangers, tell them that if this country had any f***ing stones we would drag these people out of Washington, strip them of their citizenship and their clothes, and drive them white-baby naked across the Rio Grande to fend for themselves in the Sonora desert."

I don't even know how to respond to that, except... Bravo Alex Gibney!.....?

Full review here: http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/04/30/tribeca_2/index.html

Comments

well... not to be oversimplistic or step on any sensitive egg shells here, but maybe Gibney's film could be seen as some mutation of agitprop for the times?

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