Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Asif Kapadia. This is the third feature length documentary from Oscar winning director Asif Kapadia, who previously gave us the superb, well-researched and insightful documentaries Amy (2015), about the late singer Amy Winehouse, and Senna (2010), about the late Formula 1 race driver Ayrton Senna, which were two of the finest documentaries of the past decade. …
AMY
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Asif Kapadia. When she died at the young age of 27 in 2011, Grammy award winning British singer Amy Winehouse joined that small group of self destructive singers who also died an untimely death as their addictions got the better of them - Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain. This documentary is a revealing, warts and all look at the meteoric …
SENNA
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Asif Kapadia. There have been a number of great car racing films – Grand Prix, Winning, Le Mans, etc – which all tried to capture the excitement, testosterone-charged danger and feel of high speed car racing. We’ll try to forget the awful Sylvester Stallone film Driven, which stalled at the starter’s gate! But nothing compares to the real thing, as this …
