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Asif Kapadia to direct 70 Up, last chapter of influential ITV documentary series

Film-maker says it is ‘incredible honour’ to pick up baton from Michael Apted who died in 2021

The Guardian - UK

‘Greatest’ documentary series ever 7 Up ending after 62 years

The show has been hailed as a distinctive landmark piece of filmmaking

The Independent UK

‘When I agreed to make my documentary, I went up to Anfield and met Kenny Dalglish. His only rider was some Irn-Bru and a Dairy Milk’ Asif Kapadia on making his Kenny Dalglish documentary

The director has previously documented the likes of Ayrton Senna, Diego Maradona and Amy Winehouse

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TV tonight: finalists make the biggest cake in Bake Off history

Jasmine, Aaron and Tom compete for the ultimate prize. Plus: huge news for the church lavatory in Murder Before Evensong. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Kenny Dalglish review – Liverpool’s everyman football hero who took the city’s woes on his shoulders

Asif Kapadia’s film draws an absorbing portrait of the Liverpool legend whose career was blighted by the Heysel stadium and Hillsborough disasters

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‘It’s what’s in your heart that counts’: Kenny Dalglish on his love for Liverpool and the long shadow of Hillsborough

Donald McRae talks to Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish and Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia, who has made a film about the Scot’s remarkable career in football

The Guardian - UK

Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem and Emma Stone among 1,300 filmmakers to boycott Israeli film companies

The new campaign comes amid a growing number of entertainment industry initiatives to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. The pledge says Israeli film institutions are playing their part in "genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."

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2073 review – Asif Kapadia’s harrowing vision of a post-apocalyptic world

Samantha Morton plays a mute survivor in the near future in a bold blend of sci-fi and nonfiction inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée

The Guardian - UK

From Nosferatu to Patience: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

The classic 1922 exsanguination enthusiast gets a creepy 2024 makeover, and there’s a new supercop in town in Channel 4’s crime drama

The Guardian - UK

Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia was on US watch list for a decade after he was reported by limo driver

Filmmaker said he got used to ‘being watched and paranoid’

The Independent UK

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian vision

The Guardian - UK

The never-ending legacy of Ayrton Senna continues in dynamic Netflix bio-drama

Review: Fourteen years after the Bafta-winning documentary film, a new Senna show recreates all the major scenes in the Brazilian idol’s life in motor racing and beyond

The Independent UK

Senna review – turns everyone in the Formula One driver’s life into a flat cartoon

This dramatisation of the sportsperson’s life seems to be on a quest to follow every single trope of racing dramas. The car sequences are thrilling, but it’s a bland eulogy whose characters are woefully underexplored

The Guardian - UK

Oscar-winning Amy director Asif Kapadia sorry for ‘antisemitic’ posts

The Oscar winner has been removed as a patron of documentary charity The Grierson Trust

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2073 review – Asif Kapadia rages against the death of democracy and our planet

The documentary-maker loses some nuance but he is tackling big issues, as Samantha Morton picks through post-apocalyptic ruins in a sombre futurist reverie

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Awful and Awesome Ep 357: Federer: Twelve Final Days, A Family Affair, Sharmajee Ki Beti

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Federer: Twelve Final Days review – a must-watch for tennis fans

Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia’s warm appreciation of the Swiss champion takes the emotional days before his retirement as its starting point

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Twelve Days shows the small details of Roger Federer’s seismic exit

For those of us who have followed the Swiss great’s every movement during his long career, a new documentary offers us some hidden gems

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TV tonight: inside the mind-boggling Star Wars art scandal

A documentary about the controversial world of NFTs. Plus, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen visits some outrageous homes. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Federer: Twelve Final Days review – teary-eyed portrayal of a legend’s last stand

Asif Kapadia co-directs backstage access to a tennis great’s final games that includes much crying but too few questions

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Prime Video Offers Peek at Roger Federer Farewell Documentary

‘Twelve Final Days’, about tennis superstar’s retirement, on streamer June 20

The Guardian - UK

Eric to Camden: the seven best shows to stream this week

Benedict Cumberbatch is a desperate father whose child disappears in the gripping new drama by Abi Morgan, and Asif Kapadia and Dua Lipa turn to north London with an elegy to a wonderful music scene

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Federer: Twelve Final Days - release date, trailer and everything we know

Federer: Twelve Final Days will capture the closing stages of the tennis star's playing career

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It’s a grotesque insult for Back to Black to suggest Amy Winehouse died of heartache over her childlessness

Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic suggests that the singer’s desire for a baby was the main source of her suffering. It’s a gendered simplification that exonerates the forces that killed her

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‘Her demons were probably worse’: does Back to Black reveal the real Amy Winehouse?

Tortured genius, chaotic addict or frustrated homemaker? As Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic hits cinemas, we look at how its depiction compares with previous accounts of the singer’s life

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