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A great man once said that football isn’t a matter of life and death; it’s much more important than that. Asif Kapadia’s intense Diego doc adds religion to the list, focusing on the brief few years when...

Back in the mid noughties, Amy Winehouse was more than just a name. Through a meteoric rise to fame, followed by a descent into drugs, she became the punchline to your jokes. A shorthand description of someone...

"È un gioco, non è un corso,"* says a battered former jockey, illustrating perhaps the starkest difference between Italian horse-racing documentary Palio, and the vastly superior Senna. In that...

Asif Kapadia is a master of his form, expertly turning this Behind the Music-waiting-to-happen into a poignant, studious evocation of his subject's headspace, yet simultaneously keeping her distant. It was,...