Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.
So Oppenheimer and his husband, Shu, fled Osaka and traveled to Nara ... Their reckoning is set to music written by Joshua Schmidt, with lyrics penned by Oppenheimer. A story of rapacious ...
Mother (Tilda Swinton) is having a bad dream. Sleeping beside her is the sweet and affable Father (Michael Shannon). She wrestles herself out of a nightmare and is comforted by her husband.
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.
(Well, this.) That director is Joshua Oppenheimer, whose brilliant pair of movies about the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s were both Oscar-nominated (and both times lost out to pop music ...
“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 ...
Nearly a decade ago, Joshua Oppenheimer accompanied a Central Asian oil tycoon on a shopping trip for a doomsday bunker. Oppenheimer, an acclaimed documentarian, wondered about the emotional ...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s postapocalyptic musical about a wealthy family in an underground bunker is placidly disturbing. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...
Joshua Oppenheimer wasn’t planning on making his narrative feature debut about the end of the world — and he certainly didn’t think it would be a musical. And yet, eight years after the idea ...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s wild swing for the fences. A Sondheim-esque tale that’s tuneful and atonal in equal measures, this tale of a collective living in extravagance as the world gasps its last ...
For all who don’t care to maintain a cheery disposition as they leave the theater and face the wintry cold, there is Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End,” a wildly ambitious film sitting at the ...