But sadly "The End" is not the "uncompromising masterpiece" it aspires to be, said Wendy Ide in The Observer. Oppenheimer's ...

The English actor could easily fit the mold of a typical star, but he steers clear of mainstream projects. He proves this in ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fittingly, I meet American filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer at the end of the world. Or rather the top of it. We are in a ...

It seems likely that, whatever masterpieces he goes on to create, Joshua Oppenheimer will always be first remembered for two of the oddest, most disturbing documentaries ever made. The End is a ...

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It is only six months since Joshua Oppenheimer’s singular musical premiered at Telluride Film Festival to politely puzzled reviews, but it already feels time for reappraisal and rehabilitation.

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 ...

But what future is there at the end of the world? Joshua Oppenheimer’s offbeat riff on post-apocalyptic Earth reveals its circumstances in a slow trickle. There’s word of fires that have ...

Frankly, almost 50 years later, even those familiar with the unorthodoxies of film-maker Joshua Oppenheimer (no relation to the bomb-maker) might not have predicted this peculiar musical.

Joshua Oppenheimer is the writer, director and producer of The End – a musical set 20 years after environmental apocalypse, in a lavishly appointed bunker hidden in a salt mine. He has a more ...

Joshua Oppenheimer's film is billed as a "post-apocalyptic musical" with a "bold vision", said Deborah Ross in The Spectator. Now, I am all for "bold visions", but maybe not if they have no plot ...