A 50 Year Argument will be highlight of festival's 21st year, along with films about Lance Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and Pulp
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 will host a new documentary from Martin Scorsese alongside stories of doping cyclists, moon-landing astronauts and the skulduggery of the tabloid newspaper trade. The documentary festival, now in its 21st year, will feature the first public screening of Scorsese's A 50 Year Argument, which goes behind the scenes at the New York Review of Books, the venerable journal of literature, culture and politics.
Scorsese's film joins Alex Holmes's Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story, in which ex-confidants of the disgraced cyclist spill the beans on the drugs scandal that saw him stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. In the peloton with Holmes's film is Adrian McCarthy's Rough Rider, which also tackles cycling's need for speed at any cost.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 will host a new documentary from Martin Scorsese alongside stories of doping cyclists, moon-landing astronauts and the skulduggery of the tabloid newspaper trade. The documentary festival, now in its 21st year, will feature the first public screening of Scorsese's A 50 Year Argument, which goes behind the scenes at the New York Review of Books, the venerable journal of literature, culture and politics.
Scorsese's film joins Alex Holmes's Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story, in which ex-confidants of the disgraced cyclist spill the beans on the drugs scandal that saw him stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. In the peloton with Holmes's film is Adrian McCarthy's Rough Rider, which also tackles cycling's need for speed at any cost.
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- 5/8/2014
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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