The tragic tale of Amy Winehouse, even more than a decade after her death, remains in our consciousness.
If you want the definitive word on her life then you could do worse than check out Amy, the James Gay-Rees documentary that sketches out her sad struggles with fame and alcohol abuse.
Gay-Rees is also responsible for the sublime and incredibly tense Senna, about the death of Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna.
The film-maker specialises in these documentaries and is the perfect guest for new podcast The Dangerous Art Of The Documentary.
Podcast aficionados will be familiar with the two series Badlands and Disgraceland; the former looked at crime and shady events of Hollywood and the latter did the same for the music industry. Both are cracking listens.
The makers, Double Elvis, have created this new series about some of the most fascinating documentaries of our time.
Gay-Rees explains the mechanics of making these documentaries and how Amy won him an Academy Award.
Making documentaries may seem more straightforward than a scripted movie but, behind the scenes, they are chaotic and sometimes even, as the series’ title suggests, even dangerous.
In the first episode Allen Hughes director of hip hop film The Defiant Ones explains how he had to hide from gangster rapper Dr Dre at one stage.
Jaimie D’Cruz about his journey from founding a magazine to being nominated for an Oscar for the documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop, a brilliant collaboration with the legendary and elusive street artist Banksy.
The podcast is a great listen, especially hand-in-hand with the films themselves.
The Dangerous Art Of The Documentary, Apple, Google, Spotify, etc
Night Fever
Join James St James and co-hosts Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato as they talk to the leading New York nightlife figures of the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s and beyond.
Featured guests include Dianne Brill, Michael Musto, Peter Gatien, Lisa Edelstein, Moby, and Joey Arias among others.
It’s campy, gossipy, jaw-droppingly funny, and includes some of the most hair-raising tales of the golden age of disco.
Missed Fortune
In 2010, retired art dealer Forrest Fenn hid a bronze chest worth roughly $1 million somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.
The only way to find it? Deciphering clues in a poem he published in his autobiography.
Hundreds of thousands of searchers went looking for the treasure, but few risked more on their hunt than a former cop from Seattle named Darrell Seyler…
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