What do tennis phenomenon Roger Federer and pop phenomenon BTS have in common? Absolutely nothing, but they are both the subject of prestigious new documentaries coming to Prime Video.
The Federer documentary doesn’t have a title yet, but it will be a feature-length look at “the last twelve days of Roger Federer’s illustrious career.” Originally a home video that was never intended for the public, the film captures Federer at his best. vulnerable and candid self, as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that have shaped his life over the past twenty years.” The show also features interviews with friends and rivals, including Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
Prime Video is also preparing for launch Hope on the street, a six-part docuseries featuring J-Hope of K-pop supergroup BTS. Now in the twelfth year of his professional career, the pop star finds himself at the center of a deadly conspiracy filled with dirty cops, shady businessmen and devious politicians. I’m kidding! That is Reacher! J-Hope teams up with his former dance instructor Boogaloo Kin to explore the streets of Osaka, Seoul, Paris, New York and Gwangju, meeting inspiring street dancers along the way.
There’s no official launch date for the Federer doc yet, although it will likely be released in July to coincide with Wimbledon 2024. And you’ll have to wait a while for the BTS show, which won’t be on until March 28. there’s plenty more to watch on Prime in the meantime if in-depth documentaries are your thing. Here are three worth checking out.
Marley
With the biopic of Bob Marley A love With mixed reviews, now’s a good time to see the real Marley in Kevin Macdonald’s exciting documentary about reggae’s greatest star. It currently scores 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviewers generally agreeing that it explains the legend without hyping it.
According to INDY week: “As far as documentaries about the late, reggae-singing revolutionary Bob Marley go (and I’ve seen a few in my time), Marley is definitely the most comprehensive – almost exhaustive.” And USA today says, “Sprinkled with riffs, concert footage and home videos, the family-authorized documentary does what the artist used to do: when in doubt, return to the beat.”
Just don’t expect warts and all revelations: this has been authorized by the Marley family. Anyway, BET.com was impressed enough to say that “‘Marley’ will go down in film history as one of the greatest music documentaries of all time.”
Touching the void
Kevin Macdonald – yes, him again – delivers an exceptionally hard-to-watch docudrama based on one of the most gruesome things that can happen on a mountain. It is based on the real-life ascent of the 6,000-metre Siula Grande in the Andes by Joe Simpson and Simon Yates in 1985, where the climbers used a completely new and innovative technique that left no room for error or accident. And then Simpson fell and shattered his legs.
RogerEbert.com gave the film four stars, saying it is “the most gripping mountain climbing movie I have seen, or can imagine… (it is) more of a horror movie than any real horror movie could ever be.” Today said that “the fact that”Touching the void‘Being a true story gives it more impact than even the best fictional films’. rich agreed: it “constructs a chilling depiction of the painful disintegration of body and mind as they are exposed to the elements.”
Mr. Organ
While BTS’s fans are famously among the scariest people you can make enemies of online (I may have to go into hiding after gently mocking their hero at the top of this article) they are nothing to Mr. Organ. He is the main character of this extremely strange and disturbing documentary that, according to… RogerEbert.comis “scarier than a Blumhouse joint, more torturous than a Saw follow-up”.
Michael Organ is a middle-aged man in New Zealand who apparently holds people’s cars outside an antique shop when it is closed at night; when director and filmmaker David Farrier tries to find out more, things get awful, weird and terribly weird. “Farrier has mapped out one of the darkest ways a law-abiding person can be made,” says Ebert.com. The New York Times (paywall) says that “if the title, ‘Mister Organ’, seems humorous to you at first, you won’t be laughing for long”. It is a “documentary horror film” about “a terrifying type: the sociopathic con artist who doesn’t so much work on discrete schemes as he leads a very false existence, with no specific purpose except to gaslight and control others”.