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 ...

"It's an allegory for all of humanity," Joshua Oppenheimer says about his new film, the apocalyptic musical The End. "It's about the last human family, and the power structures of our societies ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...