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When Canadian athlete Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in the 100 metre final of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, it opened a can of steroid-pumped worms. Daniel Gordon’s documentary brings together all eight competitors in the race, and in the process …

Peter Bogdanovich’s promising directorial career eventually went into steep decline, but he’ll always hold a place in the pantheon for this, his 1971 second movie. Skilfully adapted from a novel by Larry McMurtry (who co-screenwrote this and Brokeback Mountain), it’s a heartfelt study of young people growing up in a …