Steve McQueen, the first Black filmmaker to win the Oscar for best picture, has made films about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, sex addiction, American slavery and desperate women pushed to the brink. “These stories are the stories of the United Kingdom, of Britain,” says McQueen, speaking via video chat ahead of the series’ Friday Amazon debut. Movies Steve McQueen’s …
NEW YORK — In a movie year mostly lacking big, ambitious releases, Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology is an unqualified main event. “You look back to look forward, and also to judge how far we’ve come.” The scope of McQueen’s achievement has been gradually coming into focus during the New York Film Festival. They paved the foundation for multicultural London …
