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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
We walk among ghosts in cities, storied urban constructs with layers of misty memories one can sense in their distinct smells, and perceive in their dated cracks and imperfections. There are hundreds ...
Adapting a chronicle of victims' stories, McQueen does a one-note meditation on past and present. But “Occupied City,” it’s my sad duty to report, is a good deal less than fascinating. I’ll be blunt: ...
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 ...
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