Part end-of-days fairy tale, part family drama and, most unexpectedly, part song-and-dance musical, this debut dramatic ...
In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, ...
The Act of Killing” director Joshua Oppenheimer reveals what drove him to infuse a postapocalyptic tale with song and dance ...
Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker stopped by Here & Queer to talk with Peter Knegt about his audacious take on the end of the world.
Joshua Oppenheimer, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘The Act of Killing,’ discusses the making and aftermath of the film. Feb. 18, 2014 It all sounds a bit like a Mad Libs.
The End director Joshua Oppenheimer reflects on the dangerous qualities of hope and how his new approach to the musical carries on the themes at the core of his documentaries like The Act of Killing.
“The End,” by director Joshua Oppenheimer (“The Act of Killing,” “The Look of Silence”), is a gloomy musical about perhaps the only six people left on Earth: an oilman and his trophy ...
Moving from documentary to the narrative format, Oppenheimer's urge to make a musical about the end of the world was rooted in his observational sensibilities. To hear Oppenheimer tell it ...