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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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

While discussing A Family Affair:

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - US

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

Broadcasting & Cable

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - UK

Sam Taylor-Johnson on art, age gaps and Amy Winehouse: ‘Filming sucked me to a place I didn’t know how to get out of’

The director’s new biopic about the troubled singer tells the story of a relationship scrutinised by the tabloids – something she knows all about. She talks about facing cancer, falling for a younger man and why she’ll always be drawn to ‘intense, deep subjects’

The Guardian - UK

Artists call on Manchester venue to reinstate event celebrating Palestinian voices

More than 300 artists and cultural workers write open letter to Home venue over cancellation of Voices of Resilience event

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Tilda Swinton bedtime story among Cinema for Gaza auction lots

Chance to make porridge with Josh O’Connor or be serenaded by Olly Alexander also up for grabs in inaugural online auction to support Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

‘Unimpeachable, irrefutable’: US playwright Tony Kushner praises Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech

The playwright and screenwriter, who was Oscar nominated last year for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, has backed The Zone of Interest director

Evening Standard

Netflix’s new Robbie Williams docuseries will show the star ‘like you’ve never seen him before’

The tell-all series is from Ridley Scott Associates and has been executive produced by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia

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Glastonbury comedown? Check out the best Apple TV Plus music documentaries

Glastonbury is over for another year, but here are the best Apple TV Plus music documentaries to keep you entertained.

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The Guardian - UK

Creature review – Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan join up for intriguing dance film

Khan’s creation for English National Ballet is filmed by Kapadia, and has an ambiguous intensity that should interest audiences beyond dance fans

The Guardian - UK

‘Nature will punish you’: Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan on their climate crisis dance film

The director of Amy, who’s never watched a ballet, has adapted a dystopian sci-fi piece by the choreographer, who’s never made a film. They discuss art, myths, and why Bruce Lee connects them as much as their south Asian roots

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: hit sitcom Ghosts gets a glossy US adaptation

The adaptation lacks the charms of its original cast. Plus, the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022 is revealed. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Aisha to Diego Maradona: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Letitia Wright leads a moving asylum seeker story, while Asif Kapadia’s documentary on the world famous footballer is a cautionary tale of stardom

The Independent UK

Disney+ announces plans for Vogue and Formula 1 documentaries

The commissions were announced at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

The Independent UK

Football fans will be the death of great sports documentaries

At their best, sports documentaries can appeal to everyone and be an exquisite metaphor for the human condition, writes Nick Hilton. But Prime Video’s new offering, ‘All or Nothing: Arsenal’, is far too bogged down in granular details to reach those heights

The Guardian - UK

McEnroe review – a deep dive into the psychology of a sporting phenomenon

Barney Douglas’s documentary on the tennis champion stands alongside Asif Kapadia’s films on Senna and Diego Maradona

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