Neon has dropped the trailer for 2073, their hybrid-documentary from Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia. Inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 featurette La Jetée, which was also the source for Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, 2073 features Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) and Naomie Ackie (Mickey 17) in a blend of science fiction and speculative nonfiction that predicts […]
Movie Review – Diego Maradona (2019)
Diego Maradona, 2019. Directed by Asif Kapadia. SYNOPSIS: The story of the legendary Argentinian footballer’s turbulent years playing for Napoli in Italy, which saw his greatest successes and lowest points. Asif Kapadia has made his name in the last few years through exhaustive, compelling documentary portraits of tragic geniuses. In Formula One tale Senna, he […]
Movie Review – Diego Maradona (2019)
Diego Maradona, 2019. Directed by Asif Kapadia Featuring Diego Armando Maradona SYNOPSIS: Senna and Amy director Asif Kapadia tackles one of football’s most controversial and gifted icons: Diego Maradona. Enfant terrible, pantomime villain, or the best footballer ever to grace the green fields of this planet? It’s not a question that Asif Kapadia’s third icon […]
Amy set to become the UK’s highest-grossing British documentary
Asif Kapadia’s acclaimed documentary Amy is on course to become the highest-grossing British documentary of all time in the UK, as well as the third-highest grossing documentary of all time, Variety reports. The film, which has been a huge critical and commercial success, has grossed over £3.16 million ($4.89 million) since it opened, and is […]
