Clockwise from left: Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna in A League of Their Own , Robert De Niro in Raging Bull , Bend It Like Beckham , Hoop Dreams , Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait .Clockwise from left: Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna in A League of Their Own , Robert De Niro in Raging Bull , Bend It Like Beckham , Hoop Dreams , Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait .
As Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed tennis film Challengers makes its case for sporting immortality, critic Guy Lodge chooses 20 of the genre’s undisputed heavyweights nalogies of life as sport have been exhausted by every PE teacher in existence. In the movies, however, they’re eternally renewable. Take, Luca Guadagnino’s sleek, sexy, sweat-drenched new film, which hits every metaphor you might expect in its story of three tennis pros locked in a tense love triangle: games are won and lost, points scored, doubles partners swapped, and so on.
An exceptionally rare Hollywood sports drama focused on queer characters, Robert Towne’s taut, tender film about two female track-and-field athletes whose romance complicates their Olympic training was a box office flop back in 1982.
Anyone who witnessed champion Formula One driver Ayrton Senna’s tragic death in real time during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix is likely still haunted by the memory. Eschewing standard-issue talking heads and voiceover, Asif Kapadia’s elegiac documentary reconjures the memory, but not luridly so, instead seeking the soul of a man who thrived on speed and risk.
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