One of the many stories we hear in “Occupied City,” Steve McQueen’s quietly staggering new documentary, charts the fate of an Amsterdam arts establishment during the German occupation. In 1941, the ...
Steve McQueen’s latest film sees the past collide with the present. The acclaimed director of Shame and 12 Years a Slave returns to the big screen with Occupied City, an almost ...
In his four-and-a-half-hour documentary, the British director Steve McQueen charts the fate of Amsterdam’s Jewish population during the Nazi occupation. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket ...
Nothing inspires immensity on the part of documentary filmmakers quite like the Nazis. First came “The Sorrow and the Pity,” Marcel Ophuls’s damning four-hour exploration of Vichy France from 1969.
NPR's Asma Khalid talks to filmmaker Steve McQueen about the two interlocking portraits: One, a journey through the pandemic and protest, and the other, a record of Nazi atrocities from 1940 to 1945.
The Nazis and their accomplices murdered three quarters of the Netherland’s Jews. For five years — from 1940 to 1945 — a Nazi occupation impacted every facet of Dutch life and fostered intricate ...
Director Steve McQueen and writer Bianca Stigter discuss the ways their documentary of Amsterdam, both now and during World War II, encourages the viewer to wander and wonder.
After exploring the ramifications of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam in his 4 1/2-hour 2023 documentary Occupied City, director-writer Steve McQueen returns to the era for his latest narrative ...
In 2022, Steve McQueen, a British-born son of Caribbean immigrants, was knighted for his work as a filmmaker and artist, the two worlds in which he’s achieved commercial and critical success. His ...
The Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen has a new film out in theaters this week called "Occupied City." It's a four-hour meditative documentary that provides two simultaneous portraits of ...
In 2022, Steve McQueen, a British-born son of Caribbean immigrants, was knighted for his work as a filmmaker and artist, the two worlds in which he’s achieved commercial and critical success. His ...