come and see ( russian : иди и смотри , idi i smotri ; belarusian : ідзі і глядзі , idzi i hlyadzi ) is a 1985 soviet war drama film directed by elem klimov , with a screenplay by klimov and ales adamovich , starring aleksei kravchenko and olga mironova .

set during the nazi german occupation of the byelorussian ssr , the film follows a young boy as he witnesses the atrocities committed on the populace .

come and see had to wait eight years for approval from soviet authorities before the film was finally produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the soviet victory in world war ii , and was a large box-office hit , with 28,900,000 admissions in the soviet union alone .

the film was selected as the soviet entry for the best foreign language film at the 58th academy awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .

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the come and see music correlation contains 14 cds filled with music by john burland . all of the songs have been correlated and connected to related themes and topics from the hugely popular come and see programme as well as being connected to suggested scripture passages from the come and see scripture grid .
the children in our eyfs reception classes have been enjoying our ' come and see ' lessons .
when we gather together for assemblies and masses we enjoy singing the ' come and see ' theme song .
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come and see sounds like an invitation to a child ' s game . nothing could be further from the truth .
a rare jewel from cinema history , a painful and unforgettable film , a classic by elem klimov ; come and see ( idi i smotri ) is a picture that everybody must see .
this is a female version / cover to partynextdoor and drake ' s song called come and see me . i hope you all enjoy .
come and see
sounds like an invitation to a child ' s game . nothing could be further from the truth .
come and see , at the biograph , in russian with english subtitles , is unrated but may not be suitable for younger children .
all she every say is come and see me for once , you don ' t ever come to me ,
pnd croons on the smooth noah
40
shebib - produced track .
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come and see me ,
starring his rumored girlfriend kylie jenner .
following drake and ovo sound ' s sxsw invasion at fader fort , partynextdoor delivers a new slow jam titled
come and see me
featuring drizzy .
we follow the catholic religious education programme , ' come and see . ' it is engaging and inspiring and our children have been producing some wonderful assemblies based on the themes .
on “come and see me , ” pnd and drake reflect on their attempts to maintain casual romantic relationships , effortlessly interchanging between their own perspectives and the women they’re trying to sleep with .
come and see , the last and most notable film made by the former soviet director elem klimov , is another fusion of popular and vanguard styles , albeit put to more civic - minded use .
in what might be the most millennial debut of all time , partynextdoor premiered his latest music video , titled , “come and see me , ” on snapchat’s discover channel .
and when he had opened the fourth seal , i heard the voice of the fourth beast say , come and see . and i looked , and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was death , and hell followed with him .
acting on feedback from teachers the recent improvements to the come and see website have made it quicker and easier to navigate . many thanks for the prompt replies to emails / phonecalls and for the help in sorting out difficulties .
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klimov said of the indelible event , in relation to
come and see ,
had i included everything i knew , and shown the whole truth , even i could not have watched it .
released in 1985 to critical acclaim , elem klimov’s “come and see” is not an underrated film – those who see it are quick to recognize its excellence . it is , however , a criminally underseen one , most likely because of where and when it was made ( more on that later ) .
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come and see , elem klimov ' s nightmarish portrayal of the nazi invasion of soviet byelorussia , has influenced many a war film since its release in 1985 . but none have balanced physical and psychological horror with anything like the same skill
trailer for 1985 film
come and see
( idi i smotri ) . dir . e . klimov the music is slightly altered in order for it to be posted . the ligeti piece had to be removed .
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asked host norah o ' donnell .
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after eight years of waiting for official approval , when come and see was finally released in 1985 it caused a sensation throughout the soviet union . with almost 29 million tickets sold , the film entered the canon of soviet war films not only for its exposure to a wide audience but for its unrelenting violence and emotion . come and see is a brutal bildungsroman that belongs on the high shelf with tarkovsky ' s ivan’s childhood , eisenstein ' s battleship potemkin , kalatozov ' s the cranes are flying and chukhrai ' s ballad of a soldier .
each week tom huddleston watches a classic film he ' s never seen before . the rules are simple : each film must be considered a masterpiece and each must be completely new to him . this week : elem klimov ' s ' come and see ' ( 1985 )
objectively ,
come and see
is elem klimov ' s brave attempt to cinematically compartmentalize and contextualize his own wartime experiences as a child escaping the battle of stalingrad , in the company of his mother and younger brother , by raft across the volga while the city burned to the ground behind them .
come and see ( russian : idi i smotri ) is a 1985 russian war drama about world war two that won several awards . since it was made in the soviet union , it ' s not as famous in america as it deserves to be .
youngblood , d . j . ,
post - stalinist cinema and the myth of world war ii : tarkovskii ' s ivan ' s childhood ( 1962 ) and klimov ' s come and see ( 1985 ) ,
historical journal of film and television ( abingdon ) , vol . 14 , no . 4 , 1994 .
after the considerable personal ordeal of bringing come and see to fruition , elem klimov proved unable to see another film through to completion . the unpredicted success of come and see around the world brought him renewed respect , american money and the prospect of further challenging projects . a number of these were at various stages of development in the years immediately after come and see . a version of the bulgakov novel the master and margharita seemed an ideal prospect , whilst another strong contender was a version of dostoyevsky ’s the devils . but ultimately nothing came of these plans , in large part due to the paralysing internal politics within the russian film industry , but also because essentially klimov sensed he had delivered in as uncompromising a fashion as possible those emotional states he had wished to give full expression to . klimov , by his own admission in an interview shortly before his death , confessed now he had ‘seen’ , he had said all he wished to say .
the russian film director elem klimov , who has died aged 70 after six weeks in a coma , was only ever able to make five features , the last of which , come and see ( 1985 ) , is among the most devastating of war films .
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i called this morning to enquire about the change in log in etc . i was dealt with professionally and in a friendly manner . it was a straightforward process and i logged in without a hitch . i was pleasantly surprised at the upgrade to the come and see resources . an invaluable resource for busy , busy teachers . thank you .
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a crowning achievement of 1980 ' s soviet cinema revived in 2001 to great acclaim , come and see is perhaps the ultimate wwll film . with haunting imagery , this stark testimonial to the madness and grief of war recounts the nightmarish journeys of an adolescent boy during the nazi occupation of byelorussia . russian with english subtitles .
in the 30 years since come and see ' s release , although its influence has been great , none of the more recent films have been able to realise the original ' s emotional acuity . rather , it seems that despite the soviet union ' s collapse there is a tendency among recent directors for a more uniform and triumphal vision of the second world war that is resonant of the soviet era . there will no doubt be more films influenced by come and see i n the future , but if there is little embrace of its nuanced psychology they will never capture war ' s true devastation on an individual ' s mind and body .
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following donald trump ' s tweetstorm condemning the show , dixon , who plays aaron burr , appeared on cbs this morning monday to respond . his message to the president - elect : come see the show .
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he said .
i learn from urltoken that the film ' s title , seemingly so straightforward , has a bleak context . it comes from the book of revelation : “and when he had opened the fourth seal , i heard the voice of the fourth beast say , ‘come and see . ' and i looked , and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was death , and hell followed with him . and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth , to kill with sword , and with hunger , and with death , and with the beasts of the earth . ”
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …
come and see [ dvd ] [ 1985 ] : urltoken aleksey kravchenko , olga mironova , liubomiras laucevicius , vladas bagdonas , jüri lumiste , viktor lorents , kazimir rabetsky , evgeniy tilicheev , aleksandr berda , g . velts , v . vasilyev , igor gnevashev , aleksei rodionov , elem klimov , valeriya belova , ales adamovich : dvd & blu - ray
live ammunition was used in the film - in interviews , actor aleksey kravchenko has described actual bullets passing some 10 centimeters above his head . see more »
it ' s said that you can ' t make an effective anti - war film because war by its nature is exciting , and the end of the film belongs to the survivors . no one would ever make the mistake of saying that about elem klimov ' s
come and see .
this 1985 film from russia is one of the most devastating films ever about anything , and in it , the survivors must envy the dead .
the belted machine gun used by one of the partisans to shoot the captured german soldiers does not eject any empty shell cases when it is fired . see more »
les collaborateurs : there ' s one of these in the village of perekhody . the nazi - collaborator is treated with entirely appropriate contempt by his german masters , and we see the soldiers pantsing him and scrawling big swastikas on his helmet .
this movie ' s title is derived from the bible ' s new testament . it is from chapter 6 in the book of revelation ( aka the apocalypse of john aka the revelation of st john the divine aka the revelation of st john ) . it reads :
and when he had opened the fourth seal , i heard the voice of the fourth beast say , come and see . and i looked , and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was death , and hell followed with him . and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth , to kill with sword , and with hunger , and with death , and with the beasts of the earth .
lem klimov , the new head of the soviet filmmakers association , explores the horrors of war in his classic coming - of - age drama
come and see .
directing with an angry eloquence , he taps into that hallucinatory nether world of blood and mud and escalating madness that francis coppola found in
apocalypse now .
and though he draws a surprisingly vivid performance from his inexperienced teen lead , klimov ' s prowess is his visual poetry , muscular and animistic , like compatriot andrei konchalovsky ' s in his epic
siberiade .
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come and see has been described as
an epic of derangement
. during the harrowing 142 minutes of the film , we follow teenage florya ( alexei kravchenko ) as he is taken off by partisans fighting in the woods of belarus in 1943 . they disappear , and he is left to wander , gun in hand , until he rejoins them at the end as a hardened , active participant . florya ' s ordeal turns his hair grey and puts wrinkles on his young face .
magic realism : several sequences are implausible and downright surreal , and intentionally so .
not all movies are meant to be enjoyable , and some fall more obviously into the category of art than entertainment . though no one could possible describe the experience of watching “come and see” as a fun time , the film is nonetheless a masterpiece , worthy of consideration as not just the best war movie ever made , but also one of the greatest films ever made period . the following are just ten of the reasons why its legacy should be so honored :
bastards ( 2006 ) also draws on the experience of young soldiers , and like come and see it caused controversy . despite being awarded best film at the russian mtv awards in 2007 , the presenter vladimir menshov refused to hand over the envelope , objecting to the film ' s anti - soviet propaganda . in a plot that mirrors robert aldrich ' s the dirty dozen ( 1967 ) , boys aged 14 and 15 are released from prison and trained to destroy a german oil depot deep in the carpathian mountains . the film was so widely criticised that the russian federal security service issued a press release saying their archives had no evidence of criminal teenagers being used in second world war missions . while flyora ' s trauma in come and see was largely due to the experience of nazi brutality , in bastards the motley band of boys face a further trial : an assault on their identity . subject to the same threat of mortality faced by regular soldiers , these criminals must fight to become a part of the red army ' s heroic collective while remaining as outsiders . their charge is to fight for a country that has rejected them and undergo the existential threat of being comrades cast aside . the film ' s collective coming - of - age centres on kot ( aleksandr golovin ) and tyapa ( sergei rychenkov ) as they brave frontline action with fists and rudimentary weapons . unlike in come and see , where flyora ' s composure becomes increasingly debilitated , the breakdpwn suffered by the “bastards” is offset by their evolving physical prowess .
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come and see me
featuring ovo & apos ; s head honcho .
born into a communist family on july 9 , 1933 , elem klimov ' s parents constructed his first name as an acronym of engels , lenin , and marx . in his 70 years , elem klimov made only five films :
welcome , or no trespassing
( 1964 ) ,
the adventures of a dentist
( 1965 ) ,
agony
( 1975 ) and
farewell
( 1981 ) .
come and see
was his astounding final picture that would establish elem klimov as a storyteller of untold narrative depth and intuitive sensitivity .
the only genuinely moving moment is when the movie is over , and the authentic schindler survivors are shown visiting the real schindler ' s grave . for documentary or literature are the only forms big enough and true enough to fit the holocaust . go and see claude lanzmann ' s shoah , or read a book by primo levi , if you want to know about the death camps . and if you want to be entertained by a tragedy with a happy ending set in an inhumane prison environment , go to see the shawshank redemption instead .
if nothing else , “come and see” offers a sobering history lesson , illuminating one of the lesser known episodes of world war ii : the nazi occupation of belarus . while most films about the nazi treatment of civilians understandably focus on what they did to the jews – the minority that was indisputably singled out to receive the worst of the nazi’s policies , culminating in the genocidal slaughter that was the holocaust – there were many other religious , ethnic , and regional groups that were also selected for extermination .
come and see is continually cited as one of the greatest war films ever made , finding its place on lists alongside the likes of saving private ryan ( 1998 ) and cross of iron ( 1977 ) . it is hailed for the visceral power of its images and its entirely plausible scenes of carnage . the setting is easily recognisable , world war ii and two opposing sides , the partisans and the german occupiers are locked in a grim conflict that offers little alternative but mutual extermination . but this war film categorization becomes onerous with over simplification when one fully appreciates the striking visionary elements and artistic achievements klimov attains . in terms of the viewer’s emotional upheaval after watching it , come and see has little to do with what people consider a conventional war film . it is a film about internecine human atrocity , the sudden and brutal loss of innocence , the impotence of the guileless , the appalling rupture of benign rural communities by technologically enabled destructive forces spewing from a poisonous ideology . it is about how men are capable of committing the most heinous acts at the frayed end of a psychopath’s ideological whip and how the stain of unhinged reasoning spreads into a destructively motivated crowd , but also how the determined victim collective produces an equally powerful will to resist the occupier and bring justice or at least survival to the subjected .
the most recent film to draw on come and see is the brest fortress ( 2014 ) , where director alexander kott focuses on a single protagonist . 15 - year - old sasha ( aleksey kopashov ) narrates the defence of a key fortress against the wehrmacht during the opening stages of operation barbarossa in 1941 . the film is a relentless portrayal of the german ' s blitzkrieg assault , and yet it fails to pause long enough to allow for an insight into sasha ' s shifting mindset . as in come and see there is a panorama of violence , where bombs reign , limbs are blown asunder and germans machine - gun helpless civilians . but it ' s ironic that in never allowing this violence a reprieve , the damage done to sasha ' s psyche is kept at a distance . rather than achieving a balance between sasha ' s interior life and the eruption of wild butchery , the brest fortress skews far too heavily towards battle scenes alone . at the close of the film sasha is changed but not in the irreversible way experienced by flyora in klimov ' s depiction of the war .
as seen through the eyes of teen - aged protagonist alexei kravchenko , the landscape of byelorussia is devastated by the incursion of nazi troops in 1943 . the genocide perpetrated on the citizens of this region is almost secondary to the rape of the region itself . despite his disillusionment with humanity , florya ( kravchenko ) emerges from his experiences vowing to survive no matter what comes - - and in so doing , personifies a resilience and dignity . come and see , originally released as idi i smorti , was the winner of the grand prix at the 1985 moscow film festival .
what sets come and see apart from other war films is its portrayal of children succumbing to madness . after flyora learns that his family has been slaughtered he is overcome by an interior rupture and tries to bury his head in a patch of muddy earth . but the hope of erasing his trauma is impossible , and klimov underscores flyora ' s psychological breakdown with the use of sound . oleg yanchenko ' s score is merciless , filled with the discordant hum of machines that build into a dystopian symphony of broken waltzes and primal screams . along with the parading of cows and the crowing of unseen birds in the forest canopy , there is an unflagging accretion of noise .
the movie itself is great , the dvd is crap . the movie by itself is really a must see . no other war film really compares in showing the horrors of war without glorifying any of it .
the terrible central event of ' ' come and see , ' ' which takes up about a quarter of the 2 - hour , 22 - minute soviet movie now at the bleecker street cinema , is the burning of a byelorussian village by german invaders in 1943 . a line on the screen tells us that hundreds of villages in the soviet republic east of poland were destroyed , their people annihilated . the history is harrowing and the presentation is graphic ; you feel it through your body as villagers are packed into a barn to be incinerated .
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i must not describe the famous sequence at the end . it must unfold as a surprise for you . it pretends to roll back history . you will see how . it is unutterably depressing , because history can never undo itself , and is with us forever .
the events portrayed in come and see have been drawn from at least three separate books by ales adanovich ( who also worked on the screenplay ) , so that , as philip strick put it ,
what has been reconstructed is a symbolic tragedy , drawing together a multiplicity of terrible episodes into one condensed nightmare .
indeed , an end credit tells us that there were 628 perekhodys in byelorussia , but new evidence unearthed since the fall of the soviet union suggests there were far more . likewise a good deal of recent work emanating from germany itself—and , in particular , a major exhibition in hamburg in 1995—has cast a great deal of doubt on the conventional view that atrocities on the eastern front were carried out by the ss and various ill - assorted non - german nazis , whilst the professional wehrmacht got on with the job of being ordinary soldiers . so whilst it may indeed be the case , as some critics have complained , that come and see will do little to foster good east - west relations , its representation of german soldiery in byelorussia as glorying in the most vile and degraded behaviour imaginable , at least has the virtue of historical accuracy , and of puncturing the assiduously cultivated myth of the dutiful wehrmacht .
when the partisans come to florya ' s village to recruit him , they are disguised as german soldiers , and the villagers greet them with food . likewise , when the einsatzgruppe arrives in perekhody later in the film , the inhabitants welcome them as liberators , believing that they will take them to germany .
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come and see ' s legacy of portraying the psychological damage of war on children has influenced numerous other films since the soviet union ' s demise . during the noughties particularly , directors and producers looked back to klimov ' s film for how to reinvigorate portrayals of the great patriotic war . aleksey kravchenko , who played flyora , was cast again in the star ( 2002 ) as the determined sergeant anikanov . now 17 years older , the actor ' s fresh - faced pallor in come and see has hardened , as germans advance along the polish border in 1944 . rather than focus on a single protagonist , director nikolai lebedev follows a group of scouts — nicknamed “ghosts” — behind enemy lines . although the group moves through a maze of marshes and thick foliage as flyora did , the viewer is never allowed the intimacy of their individual experience . this dilutes the characters ' trauma and elevates the red army ' s heroism as a whole . it makes for a peculiar experience to encounter a film produced in the post - soviet era that offers little more than the generic tropes of old soviet triumphalism . while the star portrays the experience of children and young men on suicide missions , their psychological trauma is opaque , reduced to the kind of party - line martyrdom evident in chapayev ( 1934 ) and zoya ( 1944 ) – films that embraced the tidy storytelling of socialist realism .
this is a film that shows the second world war in rural microcosm and is shocking in its artless savagery . key is a sequence that shows the burning of civilians in a village church , the use of non - professionals as nazis and victims only adding to its grotesque matter - of - factness . that it ends with a nod to dziga vertov ' s surreal soviet classic man with a movie camera , by running actual war footage back to the birth of hitler , shows klimov ' s poetic intent ; though its people and landscapes are russian , come and see is not bound or defined by those things , rather it is a profound , universal and deeply subjective film whose only purpose is to bear witness to war as a form of collective insanity . damon wise
fr . philip hall explores the readings and services of the church and relates them to everyday christian life .
it follows on from successful trialling in schools in england and wales and is based on the theological foundations of the second vatican council , the catholic catechism and the revised re curriculum directory and includes the catholic attainment levels .
come and see is set in byelorussia in 1943 , and tells the story of german atrocities against the population through the eyes of a young boy , florya , who , at the start of the film , joins the partisans . whilst he is away his entire village , including his mother and little sisters , are butchered by the germans . returning with a partisan girl , glasha , he discovers the awful truth , an event which virtually unhinges him . roaming through the bleak byelorussian countryside with an everdwindling band of displaced people , he eventually witnesses the german destruction of the village of perekhody and the slaughter of its inhabitants—an event from which he narrowly escapes with his own life . the german unit responsible is caught and destroyed by the partisans , whom florya , now aged almost beyond recognition by his terrible experiences , rejoins .
a very unusual movie for a western audience : ww2 as seen from the soviet perspective . a young boy digs up a rifle from a soldier ' s grave and runs off to join the partisans , huge groups of irregular soldiers backing up the red army . it has that ' realist ' quality that seems typical of soviet cinema . for example , during a bombing raid , a bomb explodes some distance from the boy , damaging his hearing . from that point on the sound in the movie is muffled . at first i thought there was a problem with the tv but soon realised it was an effect by the director . towards the end of the movie he ( and we ) starts to get his hearing back . i remember when i first saw this movie on tv in the 1980s and was quite taken by this - and i didn ' t see the idea copied in a western war movie until perhaps the realism of ' saving private ryan ' towards the end . ' come and see ' is rather long - two hours , and at points it can be hard to follow what ' s going on , soldiers all over the place , running everywhere , are they coming or going ? but i suppose the director wanted us to see war as being like that - moments of total confusion where we have no idea what ' s happening , except that it ' s all bad , and we just want to keep our heads down and stay alive ! in that respect it reminded me a bit of the ( much later ) terernce malick ' s
thin red line
when the marines overrun the japanese camp and everyone ' s just running and yelling and hitting and stabbing without apparent rhyme or reason .
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the classicism is in no small part down to coppola and cinematographer gordon willis ' genius decision to shoot it with a minimum of modern film - making bells and whistles . we see the corleones ' ’40s and ’50s new york at eye level , never via the rooftop - scudding bird ' s - eye view of the helicopter - camera lens . and , in keeping with its underworld setting , it ' s moodily , dimly lit throughout , its underexposure lending it an aged , sepia - tinged quality .
such a departure from his point of view doesn ' t let us off easy . all he sees is horror , and all he doesn ' t see is horror , too . later florya finds himself in a village as nazi occupiers arrive . there is a sustained sequence as they methodically round up all the villagers and lock them into a barn . the images evoke the holocaust . as he ' s shoved in as part of the seething crowd , florya ' s eyes never leave the windows high above the floor . by now his only instinct in life has become to escape death . parents and children , old people and infants , are all packed in . the nazis call for any able - bodied men to come out . the fathers stay with their families . florya scrambles out a window and watches as the nazis burn down the barn , its locked double doors heaving from the desperation inside . this is a horrifying scene , avoiding facile cutaways and simply standing back and regarding .
if psycho ( see next entry ) was hitchcock ' s big shocker , then vertigo is the one that gets properly under your skin . with james stewart ' s detective stalking kim novak ' s mysterious woman , witnessing her suicide , then becoming obsessed with her double , it ' s certainly disturbing and most definitely ( as the title suggests ) disorientating . in the most artful and inventive way .
come and see ,
an impassioned , pastoral indictment of the nazis , haunts us with its painterly after - images of world war ii as seen through a 14 - year - old farm boy ' s eyes . alexei kravchenko , who has never acted before , plays florya , the innocent destroyed . he ' s the soviet charlie sheen , if you will , a familiar figure in war lore , but he suffers with an agony torn from his russian core . he was , in fact , hypnotized during filming to aid him in his physical transformation from an apple - cheeked waif to a wizened , hollow - eyed witness of genocide .
5 . was this the first movie where aliens played a major role , but we did not see any aliens ? or wait : there were no actual aliens , and it was just humanity in the future , right ? either way : cooper is definitely revealed to be space ghost , supplying his daughter ( and his younger self ) with information . how is that not a cap - p paradox ?
but as david mamet once observed , if you come out of a film only admiring its cinematography , then you have probably been sitting through a lousy film . that ' s certainly true of death in venice , which is a lot of window - dressed camp nonsense smuggling itself into the canon disguised as art .
. . . the priest people will turn to , and the priest they need , he is one who has encountered the lord and who knows personally his love and his mercy .
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as the film progresses and florya witnesses atrocity after atrocity , he begins to rapidly age . by the end of the movie , his hair has turned grey and he looks disheveled and grotesque .
none of these
masterpieces
deserves a place in history more than large numbers of other films that are either forgotten , not noticed in the first place , or languish on the outer periphery of the canon . the blair witch project and the innocents , for example , are much scarier and more innovative than the highly lauded psycho . the dialogue - free philip glass / godfrey reggio project koyaanisqatsi is one of the most original movies of the last 30 years . south pacific and all that jazz both make singin ' in the rain look like the empty spectacle it is . try , also , the rapture , a weirdly wonderful film about religious cults by michael tolkin ( who wrote the player ) , max reinhardt ' s a midsummer night ' s dream , terence davies ' s masterful trilogy and my personal greatest of all time , elem klimov ' s come and see , a 1985 russian war epic that makes apocalypse now look lightweight .
a beautiful german woman listens to opera music and eats lobster in her car while the village burns around her ( perhaps a visual mockery of supposed aryan “civility” ) . it’s the bizarre touches like these that help burn the scene into our memory , as if showing just general mayhem would be too basic . what klimov is after is something more impressionistic , punctuating the atrocities with images so weird and inexplicable that they almost come off as obscene , given their context .
though intimately concerned with atrocity , come and see also contains scenes of rare tenderness and beauty , whose enigmatic quality has been somewhat obscured by the more obvious primary carnage . the scene already cited of florya and glasha in their fir forest hideaway immediately cuts to the rapturous episode of these momentary babes in the wood deliriously shaking the trunks of sunlit trees to make rain fall , so they can refresh themselves . florya lashes his bare chest vigorously with foliage to enliven his flesh , recalling max von sydow ’s character in bergman ’s the virgin spring . glasha dances happily on a log for her new companion . in her clinging rain - soaked bottle green dress she blooms with the reckless vitality of youth and seems in that instant impervious to horror . here in the bucolic forest glade that has somehow repulsed the earlier intrusion of bombs , something is forged through light , sound and visual effects resulting in an emotively engaged visionary force which defies rationality . another moving moment easily overlooked comes earlier in the film when florya , obliged to strip and climb into the cooking pot at the camp to scrub it with fir fronds is approached by glasha who holds a posy of simple woodland flowers . the naked boy , trapped in his lowly position crouches embarrassed , helpless . she laughs and casts the flowers over him . klimov rests his lens a while on the child florya pathetically anointed with blooms like some sacrificial lamb seasoned for the inferno to come .
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vergara also posted adorable photos with her tv hubby ed o ' neill , and her sons , actors rico rodriguez and jeremy maguire .
with marvel’s ‘phase one’ - concluding team - up movie , writer - director joss whedon not only pulled off a colossal character - juggling act , he also pushed the studio’s commercial success to a much higher level . it’s still one of the best - scripted marvels , and we’ve yet to see a villain on more entertainingly nefarious form than tom hiddleston’s loki was here .
the ending is a dose of instant inspirationalism . the camera makes its way through the forest to the accompaniment of a choir that soars and soars until we get a glimpse of the heavens , not the most original moment in the movie . yet scene for scene , mr . klimov proves a master of a sort of unreal realism that seeks to get at events terrible beyond comprehension . he shows what he can do particularly after florya has been deafened by bombs and we seem to be inside the boy ' s head , with the sounds of the outside world overwhelmed by his panting breaths ; everything turns distant and ominous . ominous enough without mr . klimov ' s intrusions , at the expense of his own unquestionable talent . unreal realism come and see , directed by elem klimov ; screenplay ( russian with english subtitles ) by mr . klimov and ales adamovich , based on ' ' the story of khatyn ' ' and other war stories by mr . adamovich ; director of photography , aleksei rodionov ; music by oleg yanchenko ; production companies , belarusfilm and mosfilm studios . at bleecker street cinema , 144 bleecker street . running time : 142 minutes . this film has no rating .
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ninety - five’s other super - twisted , über - cool crime thriller starring kevin spacey ( next to seven — see entry 30 ) . while the line - up team - up is a great concept , director bryan singer and writer christopher mcquarrie’s movie attains true greatness through its supernatural - horror - style backdrop , conjuring a phantom menace — keyser soze — who terrifies even the most hardened criminal .
there aren ' t too many places in the world you could do it ,
said coppola .
they ' d never let you in the us ; the environmentalists would kill you .
leading actor martin sheen ( who replaced harvey keitel two weeks into the shoot ) suffered a heart attack , and a typhoon destroyed the sets . the budget soared from $ 12m to $ 30m and shooting dragged on from the scheduled six weeks to 16 months . with the director struggling to edit millions of feet of footage ( literally ) and come up with an ending , industry wags dubbed the unseen film apocalypse when ? and predicted it would be a disaster .
a fantastic film but don ' t watch it if you ' re not in the best of moods ! crikey , it ' s heavy going . but that ' s no criticism by any means . a fully realistic account of war and its atrocities is what we get and it ' s a stark reminder of how brutal and unforgiving it is . there is a lot to be learnt from human behaviour towards each other when we are put under huge pressure to survive . fascinating stuff . i can see how this film is on must see lists of foreign films . the young actor that played flyore should have received an award . if you ' re thinking of buying this then don ' t expect a typical war film like private ryan . this is more of an account of an outsider witnessing the acts of war going on . an excellent but miserable film . get it .
stalingrad - born elem klimov ' s
come and see
is an undiluted expression of cinematic poetry in the service of an unspeakably turbulent , fact - based , anti - war narrative about the 628 belarusian villages burnt to the ground along with their inhabitants by the nazis . the film is a disorienting vision of a genocide hell on earth that would pale hieronymus bosch ' s most gruesome compositions . an electricity - buzzing stench of death and social decay hangs over the picture ' s constant volley between neo - realistic , formal , and documentary styles that klimov uses to convert as wide a range of specific wartime experience as possible . the director takes the viewer on a quicksilver descent into an existential madness of war through the eyes of his 14 - year - old peasant protagonist florya . alexei kravchenko ' s extraordinary performance as the film ' s subjective guide encompasses a lifetime of suffering over a period of a few brutal days of the nazi invasion .
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14 then the sky [ a ] receded as a scroll when it is rolled up , and every mountain and island was moved out of its place .
2 . there’s a reference to land wars having come and gone , but still : wouldn’t the starving hoards of desperate humanity kill the farmers and take what was left ? are we really supposed to believe , in a society where the military has collapsed , they’d just slink away in their dusty cars to die ? or are the very least , wouldn’t they raid the corn fields for all the food ? clearly nolan has never worked in a restaurant — you put suburbanites on a 40 - minute wait for a booth and by the end of it they’re ready to claw your eyes out . even the nice hobbits stole from farmer maggot .
a helluva journey , told with with brutal bluntness and numbing , unflinching realism .
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klimov is commanding in his willingness to create abstract visual motifs , as when florya returns to his mother ' s house with glasha and peers down into a well while looking for his family . we view florya through the back end of an organic cinematic telescope through which he sees himself . what florya doesn ' t see are the mangled bloody bodies of his family and neighbors piled high against the backside of what was once his family ' s home . glasha looks back and sees the carnage as they walk away from the area , but worriedly refrains from alerting florya to the horror just behind them .
in the third act florya becomes a roaming independent soldier with a knack for barely escaping nazi attacks . florya ' s participation in expediting the extermination of a cornered group of nazis by handing a gasoline filled can to a nazi collaborator , is as suggestive an act as it is a literal one , for the belarusian peasants will open fire on the nazis before the fuel is ignited . florya gains an historic perspective of hitler that knows only annihilation . his hatred and fury seeks to eradicate the world of adolph hitler and his armies with tremendous prejudice . with his brain and body irreversibly changed , florya has become the only thing that he will ever be capable of being for the rest of his life , a soldier against hitler .
come and see
won the moscow film festival ' s grand prize in 1985 . afterward , klimov was elected as first secretary of the soviet filmmakers ' union and , during his two years on the post , oversaw the release of more than a hundred previously banned soviet films . elem klimov went on to struggle with the idea of creating a film version of bulgakov ' s
the master and margarita ,
and with making a film adaptation of dostoevsky ' s
the devils .
however , in 2000 , he gave up filmmaking because he felt that he had done
everything that was possible .
the visionary filmmaker died on october 26 , 2003 , and left behind a war film that accomplishes everything possible in cinema , and reinvents it .


senna is a 2010 british documentary film that depicts the life and death of brazilian motor-racing champion ayrton senna , directed by asif kapadia .

the film was produced by studiocanal , working title films , and midfield films , and was distributed by the parent company of the latter two production companies , universal pictures .

the film 's narrative focuses on senna 's racing career in formula one , from his debut in the 1984 brazilian grand prix to his death in an accident at the 1994 san marino grand prix , with particular emphasis on his rivalry with fellow driver alain prost .

it relies primarily on archive racetrack footage and home video clips provided by the senna family , rather than retrospective video interviews , and has no formal commentary .

senna ( film )

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gulf film , the local distributor for universal pictures , said it was not going to release the film about the life of ayrton senna this year .
but prost remains deeply unhappy about the balance of the senna film and in particular the closing moments .
“senna – review” . urltoken . the guardian . http : / / www . urltoken / film / 2011 / jun / 02 / senna - film - review . retrieved 2011 - 06 - 05 .
but prost , who co - operated on the award winning film
senna
, is unhappy that his subsequent reconciliation with senna is not featured .
asif kapadia , the director of the documentary
senna ,
narrates a racing scene from the film .
i finally got around to seeing senna , the critically acclaimed , must - see film for f1 fans .
the film celebrating the life of the legendary ayrton senna is due to be released in cinemas this autumn .
the film then documents senna ' s funeral , and the pain felt by both brazilians and those involved in f1 .
senna has been recognised by the british film making establishment with three bafta award nominations . it will be in contention in the outstanding british film , best documentary and best editing . . .
a new film about racing legend ayrton senna puts you in the cockpit with him . asif kapadia explains how he did it
this is the first film about ayrton senna that had the approval and support of his family and also the organization of formula one management , which gave unprecedented images of senna .
senna is a documentary about the life and career of the late brazilian formula one world champion ayrton senna .
these steps are crucial in making the film accessible to a mainstream audience that may not be as familiar with formula 1 , and no doubt this was a factor in the film scooping the best documentary award at the sundance film festival , one of many accolades senna has already earned .
the film senna pulls off the hard trick of combining journalism with creativity . in the scenes where he wins the brazilian grand prix for the first time we observe the closest thing to an epiphany ever captured in film about sport .
prost was at times openly hostile towards senna . for his part , senna cared only for the driving – and the winning .
senna film will get a july release date in the us . @ asifkapadia has just got off the phone with the ny distribution team . whoop !
to read our exclusive interview with the film’s director , asif kapadia , click here .
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senna is a 2010 documentary film that depicts the life and death of brazilian motor - racing champion , ayrton senna . it is asif kapadia’s fourth feature film as director , and is produced by espn / working title and distributed by universal pictures / walt disney pictures . it has received great critical acclaim .
the film solely uses archive racing footage and home videos from the senna family . it is not formally narrated , and does not contain retrospective video interviews .
members of the richard’s f1 team have been fortunate enough to attend a private screening of the film in sydney before its national release , along with the opportunity to interview the film’s director , asif kapadia , on the eve of the film’s vip premiere tonight in melbourne .
this , as jeremy pointed out in that epic senna tribute from series 15 , was why the world watched in awe at a real - life driving god , and it’s why we are very excited by this : a japanese trailer for the upcoming film on ayrton senna , cannily titled “senna” .
the film has just been released in the uk by altitude . i spoke with their head of distribution , hamish moseley , to get his take on the film’s release and reception .
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aftr his move to williams , the 1994 san marino grand prix is strongly focused on . the film shows the effects on senna from rubens barrichello ' s accident , and the emotional pain he feels after roland ratzenberger is killed . the film then documents senna ' s own crash and resultant death and the global reaction .
the british film director asif kapadia has been a workshop leader at nuff in 2008 . when he was visiting tromsø international film festival presenting his film ”far north” , he showed up at the annual nuff @ tiff reception and showed his interests to be part of nuff . though we could sign him already for nuff 2008 . in occasion of the nuff’s 10th anniversary we are to have asif as a guest of honour presenting his recent film success senna .
a moving documentary charting the remarkable story of legendary brazilian motor - racing champion ayrton senna . spanning senna’s years as a formula 1 driver , the film uses only archival footage to follow his rise to fame and his tragic death at the age of 34 . winner of the world cinema audience award for documentary at sundance film festival 2011 .
despite the film’s stellar reviews , amy’s father has said that it’s misleading and contains basic untruths . there’s now talk of him creating his own film to correct omissions . what’s your take on this ?
senna received critical acclaim , scoring 92 % on rotten tomatoes , with most reviewers awarding the film 4 or 5 stars . it was nominated for seven awards , winning six .
my wife was head of development at working title at the time , and she ' d made a film with james many years earlier . she said if you want to make a film about senna you should talk to my husband , because he really knows about him .
mohammed al jneibi , a motorsport fan , has consistently raised the issue of the film on twitter .
while it could be argued that these incidents may not be significant enough in the context of some of the other footage the audience is shown in senna , including either of these incidents would no doubt have helped further balance the film’s presentation of the senna character . some fans ( although not us ) may feel that the film could feel a little one - eyed in its praise of this very complex – and certainly flawed – tragic hero of the film .
formula one legend alain prost has just
one big regret
- - his portrayal in an award winning film about his arch rival - - the late , great ayrton senna .
will buxton on twitter :
senna film will get a july release date in the us . @ asifkapadia has just got off the phone with the ny distribution team . whoop !
, his film about a racer ' s dream to win the indianapolis 500 . john frankenheimer , who directed
but the clip was muffled and unusable in the context of the end of the film , he claimed .
“senna ( 2011 ) ” . urltoken . rotten tomatoes . http : / / www . urltoken / m / senna / . retrieved 2011 - 06 - 05 .
the film also revisits the bitter competition between senna and alain prost , the reigning french champion . it developed into a “war , ” in which jean - marie balestre , then the president of the fédération internationale de sport automobile , sided with prost . after senna and prost collided at the 1989 japanese grand prix , senna was disqualified and suspended ; when he protested the decision , he was fined . the film , sympathetic to senna’s side of the story , explores a decision that casts mr . balestre ( who died in 2008 ) as the villain .
if you’ve haven’t seen the film , or even if you have , i strongly encourage you to support a fine film and film maker , one whose interest in story and subject guides you through the world of international racing and humanity at its extremes . many in our audience felt that with so much going on in the movie , ‘senna’ truly stands up to a second viewing . the film’s us release on blu ray is july 10 , and to capture a few highlights from senna’s life and career , i’ve asked paul - henri cahier for permission to share his art around one of his favorite subjects . clickable images will open up each year’s worth of senna in formula 1 , please enjoy :
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so what next for senna ? already on sale in some countries , the dvd includes an extra 50 minutes of talking heads , which can be viewed separately or inserted at intervals into the film .
key characters were interviewed for the film , including the frenchman alain prost , senna’s greatest rival , a sublime driver but very different from senna . known as the ' professor’ , prost liked to do just enough to win – if finishing third would win him the championship then he would finish third . he liked to hold something back , which was anathema to senna .
senna’s maverick nature , and the battles it caused , form the thrust of kapadia’s film , and it results in some astonishing moments , such as senna’s devastated reaction to the death of ratzenberger and the hospitalisation of rubens barrichello during that fateful weekend in imola , san marino , which ironically inspired senna to recreate the grand prix drivers’ association to improve track safety , mere hours before his own death . ( there hasn’t been an f1 fatality since senna’s . )
senna is not a film about a sporting rivalry , because we would have called it ' senna vs prost ' and started it later and ended it earlier , if it was . the rivalry was an important element in our story - but it was just one of many .
a film about a film ? that’s the premise of a new documentary , but many tales about steve mcqueen and le mans had still to be told . the executive producer , formerly of motor sport , tells us . . .
mclaren was the place to be , and , for senna , prost was the driver to beat . when circumstances finally prevailed for ron dennis , the famously dry and chilly supremo of mclaren , to sign senna for the 1988 season , it seemed a perfect partnership . ' what you’re looking for is an intellect , ’ dennis says in the film , and senna certainly had that .
earned $ 12 , 743 in its lone theater . the only other film in the $ 10 , 000 club was
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neither the senna family nor bernie ecclestone have ever sanctioned such a project for the cinema before and we have made the film with unprecedented access to fom and the family archive ,
pandey told urltoken .
written by manish pandey , directed by bafta award - winner asif kapadia and produced by working title - the same company behind billy elliot and notting hill - “senna” was made with full co - operation of senna’s family and formula one management , allowing the film - makers unprecedented access to his life .
ayrton senna and alain prost were long - time rivals before they became teammates at mclaren .
senna scriptwriter manish pandey defended prost ' s portrayal in the film but admitted it was
very , very diffficult to compress those 10 years ( of the f1 legend ' s career ) into 100 minutes .
following a brief overview of the seasons that followed and the technological domination of the williams cars , the documentary reaches its finale as senna moves to the grove - based team in 1994 , before covering the events of that year’s san marino grand prix , which saw senna lose his life . the film concludes with the senna family and his close friends from formula one mourning his loss at his funeral .
its ending is tragically moving , and in spite of many people remembering senna for his death , senna fulfils its remit of giving audience members a greater insight into his life as well .
in the film , both through home videos provided by the senna family and from interviews with people that had known him , senna is presented as sublime , spiritual , on occasion ruthless , as well as private , humble and fiercely patriotic , donating millions to his native brazil and contemplating a life outside motor racing .
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senna
is carefully edited and makes sometimes spectacular use of extensive home movies and videos .
prost and senna formed a united team in 1988 as the latter won the championship for mclaren .
read : fangio vs . senna : who is the greatest formula one driver of all time ?
asif kapadia’s film , although formed entirely from thousands of hours of archived television footage , still manages to achieve a cinematic feel .
“movie review : senna” . urltoken . napiers news . http : / / www . urltoken / 2011 / 06 / movie - review - senna . html . retrieved 2011 - 06 - 05 .
the first documentary feature film about the brazilian , ' senna ' has been made with the full co - operation of the family and of formula one management - which has provided archive footage to tell the story of his life .
getting this project off the ground and into the cinemas has been a painstaking process to say the least , and it’s been a challenge for the film’s makers to condense cast amounts of archival formula one management footage and interview film into a 106 - minute documentary .
‘senna’ has been circulating around american theaters and streaming on demand since it’s opening last august , and moviegoers have followed the film’s rise in popularity and universal appeal with hundreds of glowing reviews from around the world . since it’s award - winning premiere at sundance , f1 fans and non - f1 fans alike have taken to the film’s narrative approach and dramatic documentary footage . to see ‘senna’ is to watch one of racing’s brightest stars rise with humility and determination in the competitive world of f1 while learning what kind of hero ayrton senna became to his beloved people of brazil .
reports back in 2001 had suggested that a film starring the spanish actor antonio banderas could be produced that would focus on the lead up to the incident at imola where senna lost his life , but those plans never came to fruition .
it maybe that you want to take the film with you when travelling or when you have a quiet moment to watch it . senna vs brundle is available as a download and can be watched offline through the vimeo app on ios .
ayrton senna was his generation ' s best grand prix driver . this viscerally exciting documentary does him justice
prost joined a pantheon of formula one greats at senna ' s funeral in sao paulo in 1994 .
race fans are disappointed that the award - winning documentary senna will not be released in the uae .
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prof sid watkins was the head of the f1 medical team for 26 years and is a hugely revered figure in motor racing . the deepest personal relationship he had with any driver , he says , was with senna . they became close when senna was driving for toleman and he treated him for spasms in his neck muscles . after that senna would seek him out for a chat at every race weekend . senna visited watkins’s house in scotland , and watkins went to senna’s farm in brazil and they would fish together .
senna would have to beat hundreds of other films just to get a nomination . but it ' s not impossible — gay - rees managed it this year as producer of exit through the gift shop , the first film from artist banksy .
here in san francisco , the f1 group i moderate had been waiting for this film for some time , and while everyone was glad to see it finally arrive , the film’s opening date coincided with the first day of the monterey motorsports reunion , a popular event held just a couple of hours away . since a key audience for the film would not be in town that day , i spoke with electric artists and lobbied for an earlier date ahead of friday with the idea that a coordinated screening would give those going for the weekend a chance to see the film and share the good word . the reviews were in and only made everyone want to see the film that much sooner .
there was only one film to reach the $ 10 , 000 mark on the per theater chart , but it did it with style .
senna the film was always going to be a challenge for me . over the years since ayrton’s tragic demise , he has become a legend – national hero of brazil , virtuous man of faith , supernaturally gifted racing driver . as news of the film leaked out and the motoring enthusiast community began reappraised senna , the acclaim has only grown louder . to be a senna fan is a badge of honour for everyone from lewis hamilton via clarkson down to thirtysomethings like me who watched formula one as adolescents in the ‘80s and ‘90s . if you weren ' t a senna fan you were doing it wrong . like i apparently did . you see , in spite of the popular surge in support for the late , great ayrton senna , he wasn’t my favourite f1 driver at the time . alain prost was .
senna , furious , with some justification , carried his rage into the next season , where his new teammate was gerhard berger , not really a threat . senna won eight races that season . he and prost were pretty much on equal footing by the japanese grand prix , which was the most controversial of senna’s career .
“senna” is rated pg - 13 ( parents strongly cautioned ) . it has scenes of fatal car crashes .
back in 2010 , the bafta - winning senna made the filmgoing world sit up and take . . .
there is a reason for all of this , of course : the film was made with the co - operation , and under the watchful eye of , the senna family themselves , and was always going to verge on the hagiographic . if i was making a film about my brother or son i ' d be unlikely to want to tell the world about what a git he was .
instead , the film due for release later this year takes on the form of a documentary and will span senna ' s f1 career , from his debut in the sport with toleman back in 1984 through to his final , fateful race with williams .
i didn’t like senna much then , and i’m still not a fan now . but after watching senna , i do miss him more . > > are you in the legion of senna fans , or did you have a different favourite f1 driver in the ' 80s and ' 90s ? share your thoughts in the comments section
paul velasco , communications manager at the dubai autodrome , said the decision not to release the film affects a wider audience than just race fans .
altitude’s campaign materials have been adopted by distributors of amy around the world which again has made the film feel like a large - scale blockbuster .
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as they both battled for world titles at mclaren , prost and senna ' s relationship came under great strain .
pandey was a rare dedicated senna follower at a time when fanatical mansell - mania dominated every british gp weekend .
senna , the film , strikes with elegiac force and is not alone in modern cinema in augmenting memories that were already safe and deep . lurching out of the dark , the viewer asks why the hot new genre of sports documentaries is so unsettling and effective .
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the stewards decided it was a ' racing incident’ , so no action was taken against senna , who later said , ' i am not revelling in the fact that i had to do that . ’ in the film , prost says that he wanted to punch him , ' but i was so disgusted i couldn’t do it . ’ senna had won his second world championship .
a complete and officially approved film was not the end of the story , however . even with the backing of universal , formulating a worldwide release campaign was not the work of a moment . the film first emerged in japan and brazil late last year , senna - friendly markets which also happened to have conveniently timed grands prix . pandey regrets that it has taken until now to get it out in the uk .
the film takes the form of a journey in three acts – senna’s rise to the top , his struggle to stay there , and his death – focusing particularly on the five years from 1989 , and his rivalry with the four - times world champion alain prost .
still awaiting access to the official f1 archive , and keen to get going , pandey and kapadia made a prototype 10 - minute version of the film using home videos and youtube clips . it helped to convince working title ' s parent company universal to provisionally green - light the film , pending contracts .
it’s also finally worth noting one other major achievement of kapadia’s film : while senna himself is the subject rather than formula 1 , kapadia’s use of race footage — particularly of senna’s own brilliance on the track , best illustrated by the driver’s talent in exploiting wet conditions — will make even those who find motor - racing a noisy bore feel the visceral thrill of high - velocity competition .
he tells senna’s story with respectful honesty , managing to grip the audience from the beginning right to the tragic denouement .
senna is released in australian cinemas from august 11 , and worldwide thereafter . check your local listings for more information .
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amy’s father mitch has publicly slated the film , saying it is exploitative and portrays him in a bad light . it’s true that he comes off worst — as someone who loved his daughter but walked out on her , and later sought fame at her expense . but it never feels as if that’s the film’s agenda .
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10 / 18 update : over 360 , 000 hits on the google map for theaters showing senna ! the map has now been updated and simplified to show now playing , next upcoming date as well as future theater openings . huge congratulations to the film and team at bond strategy and influence ( formerly electric artists ) . check out mashable’s upcoming 2011 awards and vote in senna for ‘best social movie campaign’ .
the focus here falls largely upon the caustic feud between young pretender senna and the more experienced and sometimes calculating alain prost .
the medical team at imola tend to the stricken senna after his fateful crash in the san marino grand prix in 1994 .
the film begins with senna’s arrival into formula one during the 1984 season , briefly covering his time at toleman and lotus before concentrating on his career at mclaren . the documentary concentrates on his time with the british team – namely his rise to global fame – becoming a world champion , his rivalry with his team mate alain prost , and his political struggles with the then head of fisa jean - marie balestre . the film covers the climax of the rivalry during the 1989 and 1990 seasons , when senna and prost were involved in controversial clashes which decided the drivers’ title .
senna’s remarkable story , charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off , his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained , is the subject of senna , a documentary feature that spans the racing legend’s years as an f1 driver . far more than a film for f1 fans , senna unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner , eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favour of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage , much of which is drawn from f1 archives and previously unseen .
senna took six years to make and the first cut was seven hours long . the final version is 90 minutes , about the length of a grand prix race . it is not a complete biography of senna , more a mosaic of his life .
vroom . “senna , ” asif kapadia’s documentary biography of the brazilian racecar driver ayrton senna , a three - time formula one world champion , virtually puts you in the lap of its subject as he hurtles like a speeding bullet along the fastest tracks .
it begins with ayrton senna ' s journey to england and his races in formula one ' s feeder formulae , before his début at the 1984 brazilian grand prix for toleman . senna ' s impressive second place at the monaco grand prix next shown .
we open with very grainy footage of senna’s first international kart meeting in 1978 , before we’re rapidly transported to his breakthrough near - win in teeming conditions at the monaco grand prix , the first f1 race where the senna name truly shot to prominence .
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balancing this , there are equally humorous moments in the film , and some fascinating anecdotes that help shape the audience’s perception of this very driven and intensely spiritual man .
the film is two things : a discreet hagiography of the handsome , soft - spoken senna , who was only 34 when he died in a 1994 crash at the san marino grand prix in italy , and a compressed , esoteric slice of formula one history during his 10 - year ascendance .
more importantly , it gave kapadia the idea that the full - length film could be made with only original footage and without either talking heads or a narrator . instead senna would tell the story himself , backed by soundbites from unseen interviewees . in filmmaking terms , it was a bold step .
he has been very engaged with the distribution process throughout . we first started talking to asif and producer james gay - rees about 18 months ago , when we were formulating our plans for the release and we worked closely together to work out how we wanted the film to be presented . for example , asif was very clear that we did everything we could to avoid the film being compared with the film the 27 club , which we all agreed was insensitive and not something we wanted to propagate .
senna was widely acclaimed by critics , with a 92 % fresh critical consensus on rotten tomatoes as of november 2011 . dan jolin of empire magazine gave the film 4 stars out of 5 and stated that it is
ambitiously constructed , deeply compelling , thrilling and in no way only for those who like watching cars drive in circles
. daniel sarath from the online blog napier ' s news gave the film 5 stars and called it
a flawless work of cinema that showcases documentary filmmaking at its most exciting
. alex zane from the sun gave the film 4 out of 5 and wrote that senna is
fascinating and profoundly moving
. steve rose , writing in the guardian , also gave the film a 4 out of 5 , and praised the fact that
with so much recorded footage of formula one available , it has been possible to fashion senna ' s story as a live action drama rather than a posthumous documentary . we ' re not so much hearing what happened in the past as seeing it happen before our eyes .
over lunch in the langham hotel in london , the twinkly 82 - year - old doctor , known as prof , tells me about senna . about the time when senna offered him $ 25 , 000 to eat a whole chilli but prof was having none of it because he knew that the last person senna had made that bet with had to have a colonoscopy as a result .
senna was universally acclaimed by critics , with a 92 % fresh critical consensus on rotten tomatoes as of november 2011 . [ 3 ] dan jolin of empire magazine gave the film 4 stars out of 5 and stated that it is “ambitiously constructed , deeply compelling , thrilling and in no way only for those who like watching cars drive in circles” . [ 4 ] daniel sarath from the online blog napier’s news gave the film 5 stars and called it “a flawless work of cinema that showcases documentary filmmaking at its most exciting” . [ 5 ] alex zane from the sun gave the film 4 out of 5 and wrote that senna is “fascinating and profoundly moving” . [ 6 ] steve rose , writing in the guardian , also gave the film a 4 out of 5 , and praised the fact that “with so much recorded footage of formula one available , it has been possible to fashion senna’s story as a live action drama rather than a posthumous documentary . we’re not so much hearing what happened in the past as seeing it happen before our eyes . ” [ 7 ]
i had serious reservations about this film . we all know the tragic end to amy winehouse’s story — and how the intense media scrutiny she came under played its part .
in spite of excellent work editing period video footage and voiceovers together for senna it still doesn’t feel that way to me now . in truth the film is lacking in the kind of depth an f1 geek would like to see in more detail – three pro - senna f1 commentators propel the narrative , and a supporting cast of family and friends share their largely uncritical views . i would have been happy to have some of the conventional documentary ‘talking head’ interviews from a wider range of people . but of course i would , since i’m not a senna fan .
richard williams thinks that schumacher learnt a lot from senna . ' senna’s ruthlessness was kind of hot - blooded , and the way that was accepted made it possible for schumacher to go further in cold blood . everything senna did was in the heat of battle , so in that sense it’s excusable – but it introduced a whole layer of behaviour into the sport that hadn’t been there before . ’
having started in 13th position on the grid , senna had moved up to second by lap 20 , 30 seconds behind the race leader , prost . it rained , and senna caught prost , but the race was abandoned for safety reasons . senna might as well have won in the minds of the public . he had shown his true credentials – that he could always rise above the car’s limitations .
blog : my father always held a slightly controversial view of ayrton senna : ' nasty piece of work . never liked him . '
there is much to cover about senna’s character and his well - publicised work aiding his poverty - stricken brazilian compatriots – and this is well - covered here – but the crux of the film is his intense and bitter rivalry with alain prost , which started in 1988 and boiled over over the following years .
kapadia and the film’s writer , manish pandey , know that merely declaring how special their subject was is the stuff of ordinary hagiography . instead , they set about proving it .
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my main bugbear , on top of this , is the film ' s treatment of alain prost . my girlfriend , hitherto unaware of the existence of the frenchman , left the showing labouring under the apprehension that he wasn ' t the nicest of men . if prost himself was to watch the film it would probably made him choke on his popcorn .
pandey presented his first treatment to gay - rees in 2004 . two ingredients were essential : permission from the senna family , and the endorsement of bernie ecclestone , the formula one supremo . in 2006 they got the green light from viviane , senna’s sister . for years the family had been besieged by people wanting to make films about senna , but they were uniquely impressed by pandey and gay - rees .
there was one more bridge to cross — without permission from ecclestone to use official race footage , there could be no film . the team met him in london in may 2006 .
for the first time since there will be blood , there ' s a new paul thomas anderson film out this year . here ' s the trailer for the master . . .
f1 didn’t slow down quite as much this august thanks to the opening of senna across the united states . the agency promoting the film , electric artists , has been working feverishly to connect with different communities , networks , and groups across the country through a network of volunteers and event organizers , and the results have been impressive . the film opens in over 50 us cities in the coming month , with several groups and car clubs organizing events , fundraisers and gatherings around the screenings in their city .
what makes this film especially compelling is the flawless editing orchestrated by director asif kapadia . together with screenplay writer manish pandey , they integrate endless hours of archival footage to construct a narrative that resonates and never breaks away from the momentum essential to the sport of driving - - and mimics senna ' s relentless racing style .
to the people of brazil , ayrton senna was regarded as a god . to the other drivers he was , at times , unbeatable .
a documentary on brazilian formula one racing driver ayrton senna , who won the f1 world championship three times before his death at age 34 .
first senna , now amy – asif kapadia has established himself as the king of british documentaries . what’s it like to work with asif ?
the brilliantly edited film is based entirely on footage drawn from hundreds of hours of newsreel , material from formula one ' s own archives , much of it previously unseen , and from the senna family ' s home movies . there are no re - enactments or talking heads looking back over the career . but there are newly recorded voiced contributions by journalists and professional collaborators that are included over contemporary footage from the 70s , 80s and 90s . only in a very general sense is the film a biography .
' i didn’t want to make a film with lots of people telling their story to camera – every one of these guys has been interviewed thousands of times , and the one person i couldn’t interview was ayrton , ’ kapadia says . the call was made very early on : ' only if we can show the footage will we put it in the film . ’
so i met james in october 2004 . i said you can ' t just make a film about the death of senna . it misses the point of him . if you really knew what this guy was in life , you ' d see it . if you want to do something do his life and death .
senna is a feature film that happens to have a non - fiction subject matter . it ' s also a bona fide work of art , and stands to be judged as a major movie - going experience in its own right . it ' s the first documentary from the uk ' s top film production company and was made by a team of people well versed in fictional movies , who know how to tell a story — and make it appeal to people with little or no interest in motor racing .
no one has died in f1 racing since that fateful weekend and it provided the producers of the movie with a chilling conclusion which left many film goers in tears as they left cinemas .
he told cnn :
alain ( prost ) was very kind in giving us time and we put seven examples of reconciliation between him and ayrton at the end of the film .
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putting this two - time bafta winning documentary together was director asif kapadia , a native of great britain , who on a trip to california visited our local f1 community in san francisco to attend the film’s opening at a packed theater . we spoke over dinner before he took questions from a riveted audience later that evening and he mentioned several times in our conversation the idea that this film had what he called ‘senna moments’ – times throughout the project where things just came together through the kindness or unexpected help of others .
in his book the death of ayrton senna richard williams notes that such complexity of character and technical skill rarely co - exist within a single human being . as a driver , senna’s secret was his extraordinary dedication and focus . he seemed propelled by a desire to find more within himself .
senna ( 2010 ) was a documentary directed by asif kapadia and produced by tim bevan , eric fellner and james gay - rees . it was written by manish pandey and starring ayrton senna , alain prost , frank williams and ron dennis . certificate 12a ; running time : 106 min .
prost was the beneficiary in 1989 after senna , who was able to carry on , was controversially disqualified to give the frenchman the world championship .
senna gets caught up in fifth , and then uses the force to waft into first place in one lap , without even breaking a sweat .
senna was arguably the greatest driver of his generation - and one of the greatest of all time - winning the f1 title on three occasions .
the only regret that i have in my career is to see this kind of film that we are having on ayrton ,
he told cnn in an exclusive interview for the circuit .
he thought senna was ruthless and dangerous , and could not compete with his total commitment and unwavering focus . it was an uneasy position for pandey and kapadia – talking to a four - times world champion for a film about a three - times world champion . on his desk prost had a series of books : the great challenge – five encyclopedias about the best drivers from five different eras : clark , stewart , lauda , senna and schumacher . there is not one called prost .
while we’ll again mention the enormous challenge the film’s makers had in deciding what to keep and what to leave on the cutting room floor , there are two important events – the pair’s forceful battle at the 1988 portuguese gp and the restart of the 1989 san marino gp – that are not covered when the senna - prost rivalry is portrayed .
upon leaving a screening of the documentary film senna the other night , viewers could be forgiven for wondering how anybody could harbour such resentment towards a man who was virtually christ in a crash helmet , and perhaps doubting whether it isn ' t a stone likeness of the great brazilian that watches over rio de janeiro from the top of corcovado .
they took senna out of the car , and he gave a sigh and his body relaxed , and watkins , not a religious man , thought that was the moment his spirit left his body . but senna’s heart was still beating and he was flown to hospital in bologna . when they cut off his overalls , a small austrian flag was found – had he won the race , senna had intended to wave it in honour of ratzenberger .
if you liked the film please share it with as many people as you can . the people competing that year , both on and off the track , went on to achieve great things in the sport , one of them even became one of the greatest racing drivers of all time . this film has been made for the fans of motor racing and to honour a very special season .
for ayrton senna , the brazilian formula one champion , life was indeed too short . he died , aged 34 , after a crash in the 1994 san marino grand prix , and both the producer , james gay - rees , and the film ' s writer , manish pandey , are great admirers of their subject and formula one . they have created a viscerally exciting and intellectually stimulating documentary . the film ' s director , asif kapadia , had little previous knowledge of , or interest in , motor sports , but his two previous films , the features the warrior and far north , show his fascination with legend , tragedy and mystical experience which are essential elements of the senna story .
today if you say prost you say senna . it is part of the f1 history and in my opinion is maybe the best years .
prost believes that he and senna were unwittingly the victims of their own success and did not receive the protection they deserved from the media and sponsors .
a poignant new documentary recalls the life of the daring young f1 racer ayrton senna , whose death in 1994 prompted a raft of reforms to racing .
“ayrton senna : beyond the speed of sound” ( in japanese ) . urltoken . geneon universal entertainment . urltoken . retrieved 2011 - 06 - 12 .
i will not deny that i loved every second of senna , but i would not necessarily give it the fervent reception that so many others have .
when senna dies , the audience is left with an aching hole , a sense of the loss faced , of the regrets . his death set a precedent for safety initiatives that have since spared f1 drivers from fatalities . in the new york theater i saw the film in , i could hear the sniffles of middle - aged men as the credits began to roll , and the imagery of senna faded away . parting shots of senna ' s declaration for love of pure racing capture the essence of motor sports , dating back to his feisty go - cart purist days , and evoke the integrity he brought to formula one as a devoted competitor .
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the director asif kapadia came on board in february 2007 – ' i loved the warrior , everybody loved the warrior , ’ pandey says – and even though kapadia was neither a motor racing fan nor an obvious choice for a documentary , he got the story straight away , he understood senna and brought his own brand of epic storytelling to the film .
an implication from senna , munich and the brian clough retromania is that sport works best not in the frenzied present moment but in memory , where it deepens and gains richness . another is that the pre - mass media age is a vast store of unseen detail , of untold stories just waiting for the author or film - maker ' s torch .
in terms of accusations specific to amy , here’s what the filmmakers have to say : “when we were approached to make the film , we came on board with the full backing of the winehouse family and we approached the project with total objectivity , as with senna . during the production process , we conducted in the region of 100 interviews with people that knew amy winehouse : friends , family , former partners and members of the music industry that worked with her . the story that the film tells is a reflection of our findings from these interviews . ”
i also had the great pleasure to go to the thruxton historic easter meeting on the 4th april and film martin’s old car . chris drake welcomed me into his team and i had a fabulous day .
it could easily have fallen into the trap is being a ‘talking head’ style documentary , but narratives from a host of contributors – including the likes of senna’s family , f1 commentators , his team bosses and rival drivers – used in voice - over allows the film to hum along at a decent pace without getting bogged down in its material or its subject .
on may 1 1994 ayrton senna was killed on the track at imola , on the seventh lap of the san marino grand prix . he was 34 .