documentary

Debuting at Toronto Film Festival 2015, Our Last Tango (original title: Un Tango Más) explores the partnership with Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlo Copes, two dancers who helped popularise Argentine Tango during a 50-year partnership.…

A pop icon gone too soon, Whitney Houston went from being a pop princess to a performing laughing stock due to her drug-related addiction but the face Whitney choose to show to the outside world was one to cover the turmoil her life was in,…

Chad (son of Steve) McQueen and Co-Director Gabriel Clarke got together with Flickfeast to discuss Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans. After trying to compare the West Midlands to Palm Springs through references to Ozzy Osbourne, Gabriel…

Motorsport. Meh. There was an acute sense of apathy around all aspects of racing for this writer; Sunday morning memories of watching cars go round and round and round made lie-ins all the more appealing. Notice the past tense. Steve…

Vanessa Redgrave’s decision to make her directorial debut at 80 years of age wasn’t born out of creative curiosity, but a moral duty. Over 50+ years, she has built a formidable reputation as a human rights activist, reaching out to…

Australian enigma George Lazenby is best known for what he didn’t do rather than what he did. His decision to turn down a multi-film Bond contract that would have made him a millionaire has long been mocked, when anyone remembers him at…

When is a film not a film? When is a director not a director? Well, This Is Not A Film answers those questions. Ostensibly a documentary looking at the unfortunate situation that director Jafar Panahi has found himself in (under house…

The London Film Festival has always had a good line in biographical documentaries, particularly of artists. Previous years have given us For No Good Reason, Charlie Paul’s attentive film about Ralph Steadman, or last year’s Nicola…

There have been a quite a few essay/archive films released recently, and for the most part they can been fairly hit and miss affairs. Take, for instance, The Greatest Shows On Earth, which brought together amazing archive footage from the…

There’s a particularly sobering sequence early on in Gianfranco Rosi’s pensive meditation on the migrant crises, in which we watch an elderly native of the Italian Pelagie isle Lampedusa as she potters about her kitchen listening to the…