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‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ wins best documentary
Taxi to the Dark Side won the Oscar last night for best documentary.
HBO plans to air the film in September, and Discovery sometime next year.
Melbourne-born documentary producer Eva Orner clutches her Oscar after she and director Alex Gibney won for Taxi To The Dark Side. (AP)
Taxi to the Dark Side
“His film is long, detailed and not always easy to watch. Plenty of moviegoers would happily pay not to think about the issues raised in ‘Taxi to the Dark Side.’ But sooner or later we will need to understand what has happened in this country in the last seven years, and this documentary will be essential to that effort.” (New York Times, review of Taxi to the Dark Side, January 18, 2008, by A. O. Scott. Directed by Alex Gibney.)
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