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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Steve McQueen defends four-hour runtime of new film on Nazi occupation of Amsterdam

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Director Steve McQueen has defended the scale of his new four-hour …

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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 …

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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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2 years, 4 months ago

Review: The haunting Holocaust doc ‘Three Minutes: A Lengthening’ finds mystery in minutiae

LA Times

The snippets of footage that are played and replayed in “Three Minutes: A Lengthening” open a window — smudged, weathered, mysterious, revelatory — onto a world that no longer exists. Directed by the Dutch historian and cultural critic Bianca Stigter and crisply narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, “Three Minutes: A Lengthening” expresses its own fascination with — and skepticism toward …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Microsoft to offer free online training to 50,000 unemployed in NL

Dutch News

Microsoft plans to help some 50,000 jobless people in the Netherlands boost their digital skills via online courses over the next year, Microsoft Nederland director Ernst-Jan Stigter has told the Financieele Dagblad in an interview. At the same time, research by Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn, which has some eight million accounts in the Netherlands, shows a 150% increase in the average …

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5 years ago

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China Daily

Deep-sea mining 深海采矿本集内容 Deep-sea mining 深海采矿学习要点有关 “mining（采矿）” 的词汇边看边答 Which metal is needed for batteries that power electric cars? 文字稿 In the waters off Malaga, an experiment with a strange looking machine – lowered underwater to test a new and controversial kind of mining – on the ocean floor. 该项目由欧盟资助的这艘西班牙研究船负责，目的是寻找重要金属的新来源。 David Shukman, BBC Science editor What this …

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China Daily

Deep-sea mining 深海采矿本集内容 Deep-sea mining 深海采矿学习要点有关 “mining（采矿）” 的词汇边看边答 Which metal is needed for batteries that power electric cars? 文字稿 In the waters off Malaga, an experiment with a strange looking machine – lowered underwater to test a new and controversial kind of mining – on the ocean floor. 该项目由欧盟资助的这艘西班牙研究船负责，目的是寻找重要金属的新来源。 David Shukman, BBC Science editor What this …

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

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

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

Steve McQueen defends four-hour runtime of new film on Nazi occupation of Amsterdam

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

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

Review: The haunting Holocaust doc ‘Three Minutes: A Lengthening’ finds mystery in minutiae

Microsoft to offer free online training to 50,000 unemployed in NL

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