Gladiator: A Timeless Tale of Revenge and Redemption
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Gladiator: A Timeless Tale of Revenge and Redemption

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The article focuses on several upcoming films and documentaries. 'Gladiator' is set to return to the big screen soon, with Russell Crowe reprising his role from the 2000 film. 'Occupied City' is a documentary about the fate of Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II, shot in the same locations as the original film. 'Like a Dragon: Yakuza' is a six-episode miniseries about the events that test the code of honor of former yakuza Kazuma Kiryu. 'Zwigato' is a documentary about a young man's journey to find his place in the world.

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Review: Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City’ is a masterful panorama of WWII-era Amsterdam
1 year ago

Review: Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City’ is a masterful panorama of WWII-era Amsterdam

LA Times  

One of the many stories we hear in “Occupied City,” Steve McQueen’s quietly staggering new documentary, charts the fate of an Amsterdam arts establishment during the German occupation. An image from the documentary “Occupied City.” Crucially — and with a restraint that builds in power as the movie progresses — McQueen never shows us archival footage from the 1940s or …

Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present in Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City’
1 year ago

Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present in Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City’

Associated Press  

In Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. “It’s almost like once upon a time there was this place called Earth,” McQueen said in an interview alongside Stigter. The film is rooted in Stigter’s illustrated book “Atlas of an Occupied City,” which …

Steve McQueen: Occupied City, a Nazi-era documentary that connects the past to the present
1 year ago

Steve McQueen: Occupied City, a Nazi-era documentary that connects the past to the present

BBC  

Steve McQueen: Occupied City, a Nazi-era documentary that connects the past to the present Getty Images In his new documentary Occupied City, the acclaimed director Steve McQueen brings Amsterdam's Nazi-era history out of the shadows – and connects the past with the present. Oscar-winning British filmmaker Steve McQueen's mammoth documentary Occupied City arrives in US cinemas on Christmas Day, presenting …

Cannes movies Zone of Interest and Occupied City find new ways to depict the Holocaust.
55 years ago

Cannes movies Zone of Interest and Occupied City find new ways to depict the Holocaust.

Slate  

The most chilling moment in Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour Holocaust documentary Shoah is a slow tracking shot approaching the gates of Auschwitz, moving toward the ruins of the death camp with the ineluctable steadiness of a Nazi transport. Because most contemporary images of the death camps had been produced as Nazi propaganda, Lanzmann chose to situate his movie entirely in the …

Column: It’s hard to watch a 4-hour documentary on Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. That’s the point
1 year, 7 months ago

Column: It’s hard to watch a 4-hour documentary on Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. That’s the point

LA Times  

An image from Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” adapted from the book by his wife, Bianca Stigter. 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. This is to remind people of that.” McQueen and his crew shot for three years, amassing 36 …

In Steve McQueen’s 4-hour Cannes entry ‘Occupied City,’ Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present
1 year, 7 months ago

In Steve McQueen’s 4-hour Cannes entry ‘Occupied City,’ Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present

Associated Press  

CANNES, France — In Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. “It’s almost like once upon a time there was this place called Earth,” McQueen said in an interview alongside Stigter. The film is rooted in Stigter’s illustrated book “Atlas of an …

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