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May 2024

  • Frosty! … Hugh Grant as Tony the Tiger in Unfrosted.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Unfrosted to Old: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Jerry Seinfeld’s origin story of Pop-Tarts is a riotous comedy full of starry cameos, and M Night Shyamalan’s thriller about a secret beach has all the twists you would expect from the maker of The Sixth Sense

July 2020

  • Hypernormalisation

    Wanted dead or archive: how film-makers repurpose old footage

    Werner Herzog did it with Grizzly Man, Adam McKay did it with Vice – from archival libraries to old film canisters from charity shops, the past is waiting to be brought to life

November 2017

  • Michael Thomas scores at Anfield

    Dramatic victory: are we entering a golden age for the sports documentary?

    Sport’s screen outings have long been blighted by timidity but two new films, 89 and Kenny, tell stirring stories with style and swagger. And there’s more to come

June 2017

  • Asif Kapadia

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Film-maker Asif Kapadia: ‘Maradona is the third part of a trilogy about child geniuses and fame’

    The director of Senna and Amy on falling in love with his subjects, tackling Maradona, and how his films resemble pop art

January 2017

  • Ready for his close up? … Tony Blair at No 10 Downing Street in 1999.

    Amy producer reportedly in talks to make Tony Blair film

    Representatives of the former primer minister are rumoured to have met with James Gay-Rees, producer of Amy, Senna and Supersonic

December 2015

  • Asif Kapadia: ‘The meaning of the music is deeper now. It’s not just pop music, which is what we all thought.’

    The 50 best films of 2015 in the UK
    Amy director Asif Kapadia: ‘When you look at it now, she was a kid doing stupid things’

    The Senna director on his moving documentary about the life and death of Amy Winehouse, which is No 6 in our UK best films of 2015

November 2015

  • Muhammad Ali in Zaire, 1974, in a scene from When We Were Kings

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best sports documentaries

    Ahead of Ronaldo, here is our pick of the most gripping guts’n’glory flicks

July 2015

  • Wartime bananas came over with spiders.

    Brief letters
    Crate expectations of banana critters

    Letters: I remember being told of a wartime cartoon of two people staring in awe at a banana, with the caption ‘It came over in a crate of spiders’

April 2014

  • AYRTON SENNArome

    From the Guardian archive
    Ayrton Senna - how the Guardian reported on the death of an icon

    20 years since Formula One's darkest weekend, we look back at the Guardian's coverage

November 2011

  • A still from the documentary Senna

    Ayrton Senna documentary ruled out of 2012 Oscars

    Asif Kapadia's film about the Formula One driver is among the documentaries not to make the Academy Award shortlist

June 2011

  • Ayrton Senna film

    Cinematic Senna drives home the joy of a pre-corporate sporting age

    Paul Hayward

    The footage of Ayrton Senna's races convey a time before sport became an offshoot of showbusiness

  • Senna

    Trailer trash
    Trailer trash

    Ayrton Senna's greatest rival emerges from obscurity, Oxford's pub life is corrupted, and Bolton supporters bask in their club's heroic war effort. By Jason Solomons
    • Reel review
      Senna: 'Goes beyond the nuts and bolts' - video review

    • The Guardian Film Show
      Film Weekly podcast: From Senna to the favela

    • Senna – review

May 2011

  • A still from Senna, Kapadia’s documentary about the Brazilian

    Senna: Come drive with me

    A new film about racing legend Ayrton Senna puts you in the cockpit with him. Asif Kapadia explains how he did it

  • Brit abroad ... Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, the subject of Londoner Asif Kapadia's latest film.

    The view
    Senna director Asif Kapadia: Britain's world champion

    Danny Leigh: The Londoner behind the Formula One documentary steps beyond the well-trodden path between home and Hollywood
  • adrian newey

    Why Adrian Newey just cannot bear to watch the new Senna movie

    Red Bull's chief engineer has won it all in F1, but he tells Donald McRae that he is still haunted by events at the San Marino Grand Prix 17 years ago

April 2011

  • Exclusive clip
    Watch an exclusive clip from Senna

    Asif Kapadia's documentary follows the remarkable driving career of Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian three-time Formula One world champion. It's released in the UK on June 3

March 2011

  • Ayrton Senna

    Sportblog
    Why two new sports documentaries have messed with my mind

    Emma John: My Ayrton-Senna-as-panto-villain stance had never been properly challenged until I saw a preview of Asif Kapadia's upcoming documentary

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