Tag: Touching the Void
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Evan Peters & Barry Keoghan’s Gut-Wrenching Movie About a Real-Life Heist
A powerfully realized true story or docudrama can be exhilarating at the best of times and few come as gut-wrenching as 2018’s absurdly gripping American Animals. Somehow, the flick is still underrated to this day, yet remains as strong as they come when testifying to the power of the aforementioned filmmaking mode. Touching the Void…
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Film-maker Kevin Macdonald: ‘Oprah shaped America, but she’s unexamined’
The Oscar-winning director on his new real-life tale about a Guantánamo Bay detainee, his fears for the future of cinema, and turning the spotlight on OprahKevin Macdonald, a 53-year-old Scot, is a rare director equally at home in factual and feature films. His documentaries have included 2018’s Whitney, the climbing epic Touching the Void and…
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Whitney review: the talent and the tragedy
Kevin Macdonald’s probing documentary about Whitney Houston tries to unearth the factors behind the star’s dramatic decline‘There’s several times the devil tried to get me; but he never gets me…” Since her death in a Beverly Hills bathtub in 2012, the singer Whitney Houston has been the subject of a slew of articles, books, TV…