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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Conor Murphy, this week with special guest Ross Whitaker, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.

This September, we are running a season looking at the films on the Irish Leaving Cert English Curriculum. So this week, Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona.

In 1984, Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona transfers from F.C. Barcelona to S.S.C. Napoli. Less than a decade later, he will leave the club and the city under a cloud of controversy. In those intervening years, Maradona is everything: hero, villain, saviour, devil, man, legend. Is it possible to make sense of all the contradictions that bind the legendary footballer together?

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 27th July 2023.
• Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
• Diego Maradona at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Ross hosts a Q&A with Asif Kapadia at The Irish Film Institute, June 2019.
• Muiris O’Cearbhaill at The Journal reflects on English as the first Leaving Certificate Paper, June 2023.
• The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment outlines the path to the new Drama, Film and Theatre Studies course, March 2023.
• Asif Kapadia talks to Televisual about his documentary style, November 2020.
• Owen Gleiberman reviews Diego Maradona for Variety, May 2019.
• Robert Abele at The Los Angeles Times places Diego Maradona in the context of contemporary documentaries like Apollo 11, Amazing Grace and They Shall Not Grow Old, September 2019.
• Danny Leigh at The Financial Times interviews Asif Kapadia, as “the director who reinvented the documentary”, June 2019.
• Scott Mendelson at Forbes considers the box office success of Apollo 11 and Amazing Grace, July 2019.
• Christopher Campbell at NonFics considers the rise of “archival documentaries” like Apollo 11, Amazing Grace and They Shall Not Grow Old, March 2019.
• Asif Kapadia talks to Ayrton-Senna.net about editting together the footage for Senna, March 2012.
• Nanette Burnstein and Greg Whiteley talk to Variety about the idea of objectivity in documentary filmmaking, July 2020.
• Dan Schindel at Movie Mezzanine considers the question of objectivity in making a documentary, September 2013.
• Asif Kapadia talks to RTÉ about making Diego Maradona with Diego Maradona, November 2020.
• Asif Kapadia writes in The Guardian about his complicated relationship with Diego Maradona, November 2020.
• Stewart Clarke at Variety reports on HBO buying the distribution rights to Diego Maradona at Cannes, May 2019.
• Ben Dalton at Screen Daily reports on the box office performance of Diego Maradona in the United Kingdom, June 2019.
• Asif Kapadia talks to Esquire about securing the footage necessary to make Diego Maradona, October 2019.
• Asif Kapadia talks to NPR about the raw materials necessary to make Diego Maradona, September 2019.
• Amelia Gentleman at The Guardian considers the impact of Collective on Romanian politics, November 2020.
• Kit Gillet at The New York Times considers whether Collective has changed Romanian politics, March 2021.
• Tom Grate at Deadline reports on Diego Maradona’s reaction to Pablo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God, July 2020.
• Phil de Semlyen at Empire reports on Asif Kapadia serving as executive producer of Ronaldo, June 2015.
• Asif Kapadia talks to Screen Daily about making a documentary with a live subject, May 2019.
• Stephen Dalton at The Hollywood Reporter considers the narrow focus of Diego Maradona, May 2019.
• Asif Kapadia talks to Documentary.org about the intense subjectivity of his documentary filmmaking, September 2019.
• Ryu Spaeth at New Republic considers Diego Maradona in the context of his time, October 2019.
• Aaron Flanagan at The Daily Star reports on Diego Maradona’s relationship with Pablo Escobar, November 2020.
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