"The End," by director Joshua Oppenheimer ("The Act of Killing ... Not in the literal sense. The cast has the lung capacity for more than two hours of singing and the songs, which Oppenheimer ...

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

A machine that manufactures empathy as a panacea rather than as a means to an end. Rooted in his frustration with the film industry’s response to the war in Gaza, Wang rails against the hostile ...

Nearly a decade ago, Joshua Oppenheimer accompanied a Central ... workshopped the screenplay for “The End” with a cast of Danish actors. He turned to his friend Jeremy Strong — the American ...

The End is a musical with songs sung by the six ... It’s a curious and surprising project from director Joshua Oppenheimer, best known for his stunning documentary The Act of Killing, in which ...

“The End” fits right in with a movie year of ... (Well, this.) That director is Joshua Oppenheimer, whose brilliant pair of movies about the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s were both Oscar ...

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 ...

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

Every year is full of good movies that remind us of "the power of storytelling." "The End" reminds us how dangerous that power can be.