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I believe the photographer you mention is actually Mario Testino, not "Marco".
Your tease of "Thriller in Manila" makes me impatient to see it. I'd say that in this bunch of films you've described the documentaries definitely sound like the standouts.
Thanks for that description of "Thriller in Manila." Can't wait to see it.
I remember loving "When We Were Kings," which tells the story quite aggressively from Ali's POV, as elucidated/enhanced by Norman Mailer and George Plimpton.
But that film left out all those other, more complex, truly journalistic details you mention were left out of the earlier film--such as Frazier's humble origins and Ali's vicious trash-talk. I hate to think of "...Kings" as merely a hagiography (presided over by two besotted, Iron John-era literary masculinists who speak of Ali in nearly messianic tones), but it sure sounds as if the new movie is far more nuanced and realistic.
