The London Film Festival has added multiple titles to this year's lineup including Charlie McDowell's The Summer Book, which ...
For his narrative debut, Joshua Oppenheimer hatches a sui generis musical morality play in which survivors deep underground (and even deeper in denial) consider their future. With “The Act of ...
Almost three years have gone by since Joshua Oppenheimer, the director behind the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, announced that he was teaming up with NEON to make his ...
That’s precisely the musical tale told in ‘The End’ with this elitist family, as envisioned by director Joshua Oppenheimer. In a precarious attempt to preserve the status quo, father ...
It’s hard not to think about Zuckerberg, isolating in his bastion of uberwealth, while watching Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical The End. The film, which premiered at Telluride ...
You’ve never seen a documentary quite like The Act of Killing. One of the best films of the 2010s, Joshua Oppenheimer’s film unpacks the Indonesian genocides of the 1960s and how the men who ...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s first drama is a singular musical which details how one family passes through the end of the world A meditation on how we all rationalise the terrors right outside our door ...
At two and a half very staid hours, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a punishing picture. Photo: Felix Dickinson/Neon/Everett Collection And yes, it is a musical. The songs, composed by Joshua ...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014)—about Indonesia’s 1965 genocide of more than half a million alleged “communists”—are ...
The mid-20th-century orchestra builds, as it might for a standard hopeful “I Want…” number about a character’s dreams, but the crescendo never arrives, and Oppenheimer’s unbroken takes ...