Matt Tyrnauer gets billing as a director, though we suggest another title: iconoclast.The documentarian delights in smashing pop culture images, be it that of nightclub frontman Steve Rubell in Studio 54, the chaste, hetero picture of Golden Age Hollywood in Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, or that of Donald Trump‘s mentor Roy Cohn with Where’s my Roy Cohn.
For Calfornia-born Tyrnauer, a man who started his career writing for Vanity Fair and sitting at the footstool of queer writer Gore Vidal, tearing down fantasy to expose reality has become a life mission.Now Tyrnauer returns with his most expansive and dangerous work to date: the documentary series The Reagans.