Bianca Stigter - celebsbar.com

Director Steve McQueen said his unusual four-hour Holocaust documentary shot in Amsterdam is rooted in his strong sense that “the past is present” in physical manifestations all around us, as well as a reminder to stay vigilant.

Steve Macqueen Bianca Stigter New York New York Germany Netherlands city Holland city Amsterdam city Occupied film information google Citi Discover Provident Enterprise Climate

‘Occupied City’ Review: Steve McQueen’s Holocaust Documentary Is a Trial to Sit Through: Four Hours Long But Only an Inch Deep

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Over the past 15 years, Steve McQueen has become one of my favorite filmmakers. He’s made only a handful of features, but in almost every case he takes a subject of extraordinary magnitude (the 1971 IRA prison hunger strike in “Hunger,” the complex horrors of slavery in “12 Years a Slave,” the collision of gritty city politics and feminine revolt in “Widows,” the epochal crackdown on West Indian immigrants in London in “Mangrove”) and uses it to box open your heart and mind. And he does it all with a storytelling vibrance that’s at once heady and populist. So when it was announced that McQueen would be directing his first documentary feature, and that it would tackle the subject of the Holocaust, dealing with the victims of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam (the city where McQueen now lives), my anticipation took the form of thinking: How, with a director of McQueen’s skill and imagination and gravity, could this be less than fascinating?

Steve Macqueen Owen Gleiberman Bianca Stigter London India Netherlands city Amsterdam city Occupied film death audience pandemic reports Citi Citizens

Steve McQueen on His 4-Hour Documentary Epic ‘Occupied City’ and How It’s Informing His Apple TV+ Movie ‘Blitz’

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International 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 documentary “Occupied City.” “It’s definitely pleasurable, but this is work,” declares McQueen with the wariness of a filmmaker who’s just been plucked out of the edit suite. “Hard work is always hard work. You can’t avoid it.” The British director, who was Oscar-nominated for “12 Years a Slave,” didn’t set out to make back-to-back movies about the war, but “you plant seeds, and some come to fruition and others don’t,” he explains. “These two happened to blossom fairly close to each other.”

Saoirse Ronan Steve Macqueen Manori Ravindran Bianca Stigter Britain London Germany Netherlands county Harris city Amsterdam city Dickinson, county Harris city Occupied film stars death country information Citi epic

Steve McQueen’s Gripping Cannes Documentary ‘Occupied City’ Connects Today’s Amsterdam With Era Of Nazi Occupation

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 flung themselves into the Amstel rather than face cruel death from the occupying Nazi forces.

Steve Macqueen Bianca Stigter London Germany Netherlands city Amsterdam city Occupied film death information google Citi Parke Enterprise

International Insider: Cannes Lineup Roars; Don’t Forget Mip TV; Rebranding To The Max

Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here penning the weekly mailer a day after Cannes revealed its long-awaited lineup. Read on for all the details and plenty more, and sign up to the International Insider here.

Steve Macqueen Alice Rohrwacher Jonathan Glazer Thierry Fremaux Bianca Stigter Sam Levinson Aki Kaurismäki Max Goldbart France state Kentucky Indiana county Anderson city Occupied film show reports record Inside man Platform

Oscar-Contending Documentary ‘Three Minutes – A Lengthening’ Investigates Mystery Footage From Eve Of World War II

In August 1938 an American visitor appeared in a Polish village outside Warsaw, bearing an object of considerable novelty to the townspeople: a 16mm motion picture camera. David Kurtz filmed for not much more than 180 seconds, his shutter opening onto village life in Nasieslk, home to a Jewish population numbering several thousand people.

Bianca Stigter USA Poland city Warsaw film voice information

UK Jewish Film Festival To Host Single-Shot Feature ‘Shttl’ & Helena Bonham Carter-Narrated Doc ‘Three Minutes: A Lengthening’

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Jewish Film Festival (November 10-20) has revealed its lineup of 2022 gala screenings and premieres, including special presentations of the single shot drama Shttl and Three Minutes: A Lengthening, the WWII drama co-produced by Steve McQueen and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.

Keira Knightley Helena Bonham-Carter Steve Macqueen Sam Claflin Jim Broadbent Brenda Blethyn Helen Maccrory Eddie Marsan Sophie Okonedo Bianca Stigter Britain Ukraine Netherlands Poland film exclusive composer

‘Three Minutes: A Lengthening’ Trailer: Helena Bonham Carter Narrates A Haunting Holocaust Documentary

Documentary features, and really any artistic works having to do with history, often do not exist just to relay information but to make its audience not forget what it has to say. In that manner, few topics from more modern history are weightier to deal with than the Holocaust.