I saw Senna today at the Broadway theater in Salt Lake.  What an amazing movie.  It was composed entirely of archival footage (including Senna-family home movies, as well as ESPN and Formula One archive clips) and told the story of a true hero, in a fast-paced, brilliantly composed film that no fictional thriller could ever come close to matching.  It debuted in Brazil, and has seen theatrical release there, and in Japan. (And now in the U.S. at Sundance).  I hope, for the forces of good, that Universal Studios gives this film a broad theatrical release in the U.S.  It will go to DVD/Blu-Ray, but it would be an amazing shame if it went to DVD/Blu-Ray without first being in theaters, on a big screen, with big surround-sound speakers.  Ayrton Senna's story deserves nothing less than to be told in hundreds of theaters nationwide, and this movie is the only way it should be done (not through a dramatic recreation … which, the director Asif Kapadia told us in the post-screening Q&A, once almost came about.  Apparently Antonio Banderas was quite keen on playing Senna).

So, please, contact Universal and tell them that you want to see Senna in a U.S. theater.  Then, go see it when it is released and feel good about having done a part in bringing what is truly a masterpiece to the public.

By the way, the music was amazing.  Way to go Antio Pinto (who may or may not just happen to be another native son of Brasil).