Obsession

One person and the thing they cannot leave alone. A man walking a wire between the towers, a painter reverse engineering Vermeer's optics in a Texas warehouse, Timothy Treadwell going back to the bears every summer until they killed him. Admirable and alarming in roughly equal measure.

• The Queen of Versailles (2012) ★
• Grizzly Man (2005) ★★★
• The Last Dance (2020) ★★★
• Off the Rails (2016) ★★
• Man on Wire (2008) ★★★
• Tim’s Vermeer (2013) ★★★
• Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars (2025) ★★★
• The White Diamond (2004) ★