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

Just as they drink wine with their lavish meals despite its sourness, they sing out their emotions despite the shared fiction ...

It’s a 2½-hour postapocalyptic musical that takes place in a bunker deep underground among the last surviving family on Earth ...

Deep in a bunker, a family keeps on singing in the year's most nightmarish piece of future shock. Director Joshua Oppenheimer had never made a musical before.

Joshua Oppenheimer is probably best known for his two Oscar-nominated documentaries, “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of ...

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. She lies ...

Director Joshua Oppenheimer, previously a documentarian who has chronicled dark acts of self-delusion, shifts to a postapocalyptic musical with similar themes.

I haven’t seen The End, Joshua Oppenheimer’s musical about a rich family living out their days in a postapocalyptic ...

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 ...