The End director Joshua Oppenheimer reflects on the dangerous qualities of hope and how his new approach to the musical carries on the themes at the core of his documentaries like The Act of Killing.

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...