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Lucky! (2022)
A dominant pole position and win.
It's not easy to present the story of a titanic and controversial figure like Bernie Ecclestone, in a documentary that is basically his side of the whole story, and make the viewer care and even sympathize with him. In this, the director of the amazing documentary movie Senna has managed to get Bernie to dial down his ability to fire away hot takes seemingly for the sake of it, and gets him to narrate his story very effectively while supported by the amazing visual delight of absolutely fantastic archive footage, much of it never before seen) with a surprising amount of grounded maturity and heartfelt emotional moments, but never failing to sneak in his dry, very British humor.
Even if the viewer doesn't care for the personal, political and sporting achievements of Ecclestone, the documentary is still a must watch for fans of the sport, I'd only because it manages to blend that aspect in seamlessly with the amazing archive footage of Formula 1 in its very different forms and eras, very detailed footage of the legendary cars like the Lotus 49, Ferrari 312, racing in tracks both eternal(Monaco) and completely forgotten and obscure circuits that never made it to the big leagues, money driven F1. It's also packed with never before seen interviews of figures like Colin Chapman, Frank Williams, Enzo Ferrari, Jochen Rindt, Teddy Mayer,etc.
If you like Formula 1 and it's history, do yourself a favor and watch this. You won't regret it.
No Time to Die (2021)
Daniel Craig ends his tenure as James Bong with a bang!
Let me start by addressing the elephant in the room: The political review bombing of this film is ridiculous and the people doing this honestly have no clue about the real James Bond, written by Fleming, the man that existed before the myth created by Sean Connery in Goldfinger.
There are two types of bond films, the one they try to delve deeper into the character and the ludicrous ones like Roger Moore's and Die another Day. Fans of the latter are very likely to hate this film, but in my opinion, the ones that flesh out Bond as a character and have more grounded plots are usually the best ones, and this one falls into that category, or rather, goes all in on it. And I loved it.
I have no doubt this film will remain highly divisive and I predict that with time, it will age like wine, just like people weren't ready for On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969, after years of seeing Connery play that formula to exhaustion (and then again in diamonds), people weren't ready for this film now. Never before have we seen a Bond so fleshed out and so vulnerable, so human, and as a result, the stakes are higher than ever. This film, like OHMSS, dared to go where no other Bond film went.
Guaranteed cult classic.