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Joshua Oppenheimer made his name directing two disturbing documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence ...
A look at esteemed documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer's first attempt at fictional storytelling. Read more about 'The End' and its execution here.
Oppenheimer was rightly lauded for his only two previous features, hybrid documentaries The Act of Killing (regularly in lists of the 21 century’s greatest films) and its follow-up The Look of Silence ...
Acclaimed documentarian behind ‘The Act of Killing’ Joshua Oppenheimer turns his hand to fiction for this socially charged ...
To be fair, taking place over two hours and 30 minutes in the same isolated bunker, the film could not be classed a laugh riot. We don’t even get to see the end of the world. That has more or less ...
But sadly "The End" is not the "uncompromising masterpiece" it aspires to be, said Wendy Ide in The Observer. Oppenheimer's ...
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 ...
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 ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
That’s a good question,” he says. It’s one posed by his latest role in Joshua Oppenheimer’s film The End, an apocalyptic ...
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.