GONZO THE LIFE and WORK OF DR HUNTER S. THOMPSON (15)

Tues 27 Jan 8.00 Wed 28 Jan 5.45 & 8.30 Thurs 29 Jan 8.00

Dir: Alex Gibney (2008) US 2hrs Documentary

Tues 27 Jan 8.00 Wed 28 Jan 5.45 & 8.30 Thurs 29 Jan 8.00

Dir: Alex Gibney (2008) US 2hrs Documentary

Gonzo is directed by Alex Gibney, the Academy Award winning director of Taxi To The Dark Side. While Gibney shaped the screen story, every word in the film springs from the typewriter of cult author/journalist Thompson himself. Narrated by Johnny Depp, the actor who once shadowed Thompson's every move for the screen version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and who bankrolled Thompson's spectacular funeral (photographed for this film). This is an absorbing documentary from a director working at the top of his game which also serves the whole decades-long counterculture that he championed in many ways. For all his excessive lifestyle that became almost a parody of the drug culture, he remained a true intellectual and anti-corruption/hypocrisy crusader.