AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour Musk documentary leans on scorned exes and debunked conspiracy theories
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has built a nearly four-hour documentary around the premise that Elon Musk is a fraud, relying heavily on disgruntled former partners and a Starlink election-rigging theory that officials already debunked. The film, titled Musk, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday and is scheduled to open in theaters October 16. […] The post Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour Musk documentary leans on scorned exes and debunked conspiracy theories appeared first on American Almanac .
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has built a nearly four-hour documentary around the premise that Elon Musk is a fraud, relying heavily on disgruntled former partners and a Starlink election-rigging theory that officials already debunked. The film, titled Musk, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday and is scheduled to open in theaters October 16. It runs three hours and forty-five minutes, including a ten-minute intermission, a runtime that suggests Gibney needed every spare minute to stitch together a case that keeps circling back to claims the public record has already addressed. Gibney, who previously directed documentaries on Enron and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, began the project in 2023 and expanded its scope…Open