Working from a book by his wife, Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter, the '12 Years a Slave' helmer explores his adopted city in the ’40s and today. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic She ...
The past and present collide in the first trailer for Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave” and “Widows” filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic and acclaimed documentary “Occupied City.” Based on the book “Atlas ...
A24 and New Regency have come aboard to distribute and co-finance a new documentary film by “12 Years a Slave” filmmaker Steve McQueen called “Occupied City,” an individual with knowledge told TheWrap ...
CANNES, France — British director Steve McQueen knows his documentary “Occupied City,” which premiered on the first day of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, may not be what people expect. From him, or ...
The documentary is based on McQueen's partner Bianca Stigter's "Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945)." McQueen’s whopping four-hour long documentary “Occupied City” charts a five-year ...
Steve McQueen looks stressed out. He’s a few weeks into post-production on “Blitz,” his World War II drama for Apple TV+, while starting promotion on his other, long-gestating wartime project, the ...
Amsterdam today. Pause on a bridge and watch the Amstel River gently flow through picturesque canals. Eighty years ago, the same vista might have revealed a horror – bodies floating by of Jews who had ...
Steve McQueen layers an oral history of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam over footage from the city's COVID lockdown in a patience-testing documentary that may have worked better as an installation piece. A ...