Biographical Film

‘Nobody really knows what the fuck happened. So it’s all fiction anyway, in my opinion’. This is what Andrew Dominik said about his thought process before directing his new film Blonde, a fictionalised account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, based on the 2000 novel of the same name...

Biopics are the most awkward of genres. We all live our own lives and we know from them that unlike movies they aren’t neat; the overarching themes don’t become obvious until years after the fact and things happen by chance and luck that in a movie would be nothing...

From Gandhi to Selma, Chaplin to The Wolf of Wall Street and Catch Me If You Can to Wild, biographical films, or biopics, have experienced a surge of interest in cinema over the last few decades. Expanding our printed Scrapbook on heroism in biopics featured in our 235th issue, our writers journey through a selection of notable biographical pictures over...