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What Comes After the Apocalypse? A Q&A With Joshua Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.
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Joshua Oppenheimer on Post-Apocalyptic Musical ‘The End,' the Power of Solidarity and His ‘Inveterate Optimism' Under Trump 2.0: ‘We're Going to Fight Again'
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 ...
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The musical at the end of the world
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.
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He had a vision for the end of the world. Of course, it had to be a musical
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.
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‘The End’ is a musical family drama for the postapocalypse
(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 ...
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He made documentaries about mass murder — and then a Tilda Swinton musical
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 ...
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Review: It’s ‘The End’ but deep underground, a sheltered family keeps on singing in denial
“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 ...
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A Postapocalyptic Musical That Believes in Humanity
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon in Joshua Oppenheimer ...
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‘The End’ Is About Mankind Facing Certain Doom. Its Director Hopes It Inspires You
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 ...
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'The End' review: Singing and dancing at the end of the world
"The End" is filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer's reckoning with the end times and humanity's last stand. As much as it's about the end it's about how we act now, the truths we bury and the lies we tell ...
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Tilda Swinton brings stunning heart to "The End," an apocalyptic movie musical for our time
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 ...