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Eliot Spitzer Doc, Mike Leigh’s Latest Acquired as Fest Buys Pick Up

I don’t know what it means that Tribeca and Cannes are running about even on their 2010 festival acquisitions to date, but there you have it: Alex Gibney’s terrific Untitled Eliot Spitzer Doc and Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or front-runner Another Year are both spoken for, according to announcements this afternoon.

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Moment of Truth: Alex Gibney on Casino Jack (and the Rest of His Documentary Binge)

If you think you may have read a disproportionate amount of coverage here over the last few weeks about filmmaker Alex Gibney, you’re probably right. But it’s only because the Oscar-winning documentarian has a staggering number of films arriving on the scene at once: In addition to his three movies debuting at the ongoing Tribeca Film Festival, Gibney’s Casino Jack and the United States of Money opens tomorrow in limited release. Not even Werner Herzog can match than kind of productivity, though as Gibney told Movieline, it was kind of accidental for himself as well.

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Moment of Truth: Alex Gibney on Casino Jack (and the Rest of His Documentary Binge)

Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film Screens For Standing-Room Only Tribeca Crowd

My first full day of Tribeca Film Festival duty really came down to the what’s already the hottest-ticket item of the entire week ahead: Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film , director Alex Gibney’s work-in-progress documentary about the career and eventual disgrace of the former New York governor. Being unfinished, reviewers are forbidden from writing especially in-depth about it. But here’s one nugget: It’s not untitled at all, even though to hear Gibney tell it in his introduction to a packed house, the working title Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer may yet lose out to that more abstract, curious namelessless in the festival program.

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VIDEO: Eliot Spitzer Plays Himself in Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film

Maybe I overlooked a few things or simply didn’t do enough probing to understand that Eliot Spitzer is actually in Alex Gibney’s new, untitled documentary about the disgraced former New York governor. Like, if I were Spitzer? And I saw the Oscar-winning investigative filmmaker behind Taxi to the Dark Side , Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and the upcoming Casino Jack and the United States of Money approaching my front door? I would turn off every light, close every curtain, hide beneath the bed and quite possibly consider relocating to another state under cover of night, kind of like the Colts fled Baltimore back in 1982. The last thing I would do is talk to the guy. And on camera? Forget about it. But: That’s why he’s Spitzer, I guess, and this first clip from Gibney’s doc hints at some of the interrogation to expect.

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VIDEO: Eliot Spitzer Plays Himself in Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film