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 ...

Part end-of-days fairy tale, part family drama and, most unexpectedly, part song-and-dance musical, this debut dramatic feature from American-born, Denmark-based filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer is ...

Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.

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 ...

For filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, the beginning of “The End” came somewhat unexpectedly as an extension of his work in documentary. This might sound strange considering this narrative feature ...

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.

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 ...

Anyway, if the fear was that the residual impact of last year’s strikes would make 2024 a miserable year for good movies, the process of watching the likes of “Janet Planet,” “Chicken for ...

“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 ...

"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 wife (Michael ...