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We chat to writer-directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping about the feature-length adaptation of their own short film, Femme.

With both iterations of Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping have brought LGBTQ+ protagonists to the typically hyper-masculine crime thriller. The 2021 short – featured in Film Stories issue 31 – made us fear for the safety of Paapa Essiedu’s Jordan as he gets in a car with flirtatious drug dealer Wes (Harris Dickinson). The gripping neo-noir feature shares the bones of that film, but otherwise goes off in its own direction, presenting a murkier, morally grey world inhabited by complex protagonists. Freeman describes making the feature as having “levelled up,” and he couldn’t be more correct. Femme stands among the best films of the year, and it’s marked the pair as filmmakers to keep a close eye on.

Femme is led by Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as drag artist Jules,...

Joshua Oppenheimer is tired.

The two-time Academy Award nominee isn’t simply spent at the tail end of an exhausting week for the American body politic. Nor has he tossed and turned his way through countless sleepless nights, doomscrolling through the nightmare scenarios of what a second Trump administration could mean for Americans’ civil rights, the rule of international law, women’s bodies, the fate of the planet — take your pick.

Speaking with Variety at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where the “Act of Killing” director’s first fiction feature, “The End,” is the closing film, Oppenheimer has just arrived from Japan, where he spent two weeks with his husband, a Japanese novelist, visiting the in-laws while his partner researches his next book.

The filmmaker barely managed to sleep on the plane, though he is poised, thoughtful and gracious to a fault as he powers through his festival press junket. He is also determined and defiant,...

Veterans Day is a federal holiday that honors the men and women who served.

Countless films have been made about their bravery, heroism and sacrifice.

Here are seven films to stream on Veterans Day this year:

“Saving Private Ryan”

Steven Spielberg’s ode to World War II veterans won five Oscars including Best Director for Spielberg — his second — while famously missing out on Best Picture to “Shakespeare in Love.” It is a visceral, emotional story of a group of soldiers, led by Tom Hanks, who are tasked with finding a private after the invasion of Normandy and bringing him home. Through their journey, Spielberg showcases the perspectives of everyone touched by the war, and the many different kinds of soldiers who fought for their country.

“Saving Private Ryan” is streaming on Paramount+ and Fubo.

“1917” (2019)

Sam Mendes directs this harrowing tale of survival. When the British army receives vital intel about German battle plans,...

Greece’s Thessaloniki Film Festival ends this evening with a screening of The End, the latest feature project from the enigmatic filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer.

Best known for his intellectually rich and Oscar-nominated non-fiction works The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), Oppenheimer’s latest is his first fiction project, and for it he has recruited one of the most impressive ensembles of the year. Starring are Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), BAFTA-nominee George Mackay (1917), and Emmy-nominee Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit).

Styled as a Golden Age Hollywood musical, The End is set in a post-apocalyptic world twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable. A biological family and their companions – part-found-family, part-hired-help – live in harmony in a subterranean bunker. But the arrival of a stranger smashes the synthetic veil of their strictly organized world. The ensuing struggle to maintain their...

Lo protagonizan Tilda Swinton, George Mackay, Moses Ingram y Michael Shannon. © Avalon

Neon ha publicado el primer tráiler de The End, un musical post-apocalíptico (por muy extraño que suene) del director de The Act of Killing y The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer.

The End sigue a una de las últimas familias de la Tierra, compuesta por un exmagnate energético (Michael Shannon), una exbailarina (Tilda Swinton) y su hijo (George MacKay), quienes viven en un lujoso búnker en unas minas de sal junto a un doctor (Lennie James), un mayordomo (Tim McInnerny) y una amiga (Bronagh Gallagher), hasta que la llegada de una chica superviviente (Moses Ingram) empieza a sacudir la aparente perfección de sus vidas y a sacar a la luz todas las verdades y sentimientos reprimidos que han ido forjando en su idílico mundo.

La película está protagonizada por Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Michael Shannon, Bronagh...

Tilda Swinton and George Mackay star in apocalyptic musical The End, and the first trailer has landed. Right here.

Actor George Mackay is set return to the world of big screen musicals with The End, which is, er, joyously set during the apocalypse.

The cast also includes Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny and Lennie James.

The songs were written by Marius De Vries and Josh Schmidt. De Vries won a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award for his score to Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, while The End marks the feature debut of Schmidt. Joshua Oppenheimer, best known for the award-winning documentaries The Act Of Killing (2012) and The Look Of Silence (2014) directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rasmus Heisterberg.

George MacKay is no stranger to movie musicals. In 2013 he starred in Dexter Fletcher’s film adaptation of Stephen Greenhorn’s ebullient Proclaimers musical Sunshine On Leith...

Neon has debuted a trailer for the apocalyptic musical feature ‘The End.’ featuring Tilda Swinton and George McKay.

From director Joshua Oppenheimer comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

The family consists of a couple and their young adult son who has never seen the outside world. There’s also a maid, a doctor, a butler and a young woman who managed to survive and find her way in. Initially feeling righteousness over their survival, the couple are soon haunted by regret for those they lost and guilt over their own contribution to the apocalypse.

The movie stars Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Michael Shannon, George MacKay (1917) and Moses Ingram.

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„The End“ von Joshua Oppenheimer mit Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon und George MacKay gehörte zu den großen Filmen der diesjährigen Herbstfestivals. Nun gibt es einen ersten US-Trailer des apokalyptischen Musicals, das in Deutschland bei Mubi gestartet wird.

Dass „The End“ in jedem Kinojahr zu den ungewöhnlicheren Filmen des Jahres zählen würde, sollte feststehen. In unserer Besprechung aus San Sebastián schrieben wir: „Und jetzt, tada, ein Musical über das Ende der Welt. Oder besser: über die Familie, die das Ende der Welt mitverschuldet hat und nun zu sechst seit 20 Jahren in einem Bunker in einer Salzmine weit unter der Erde haust. Von Joshua Oppenheimer in seinem Debüt als Spielfilmregisseur, der legendäre Dokumentarfilmer, dem es für ,The Act of Killing‘ gelungen war, Mitglieder indonesischer Todesschwadronen ihre Taten in nachgestellten Filmszenen durchspielen zu lassen. Wenn man so will, ist es von dort nur ein kleiner Schritt zu ,The End‘, der auf oft faszinierende,...

The trailer for Tilda Swinton‘s new apocalypse movie has been released!

The 63-year-old Oscar-winning actress stars in Joshua Oppenheimer‘s new musical movie The End about a family that survived the end of the world alongside Michael Shannon, George MacKay, and Moses Ingram.

Keep reading to find out more…Here the synopis: “Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son areconfined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy byclinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. Son, anaïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, andsuddenly the delicate bonds of blind optimism that have held this wealthy clan together begin to fray. Astensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble, with long-repressed feelings of remorseand resentment threatening to destroy the family’s delicate balance.

What if you were trapped in a bunker with Tilda Swinton, and she kept breaking out into song?

That’s (an extremely reductive version of) the premise for “The End,” director Joshua Oppenheimer’s oddball post-apocalyptic musical, for which Neon released a trailer on Monday. The trailer teases a romantic musical set in a billionaire family’s bunker after the end of the world they helped cause, with elegant sets and an unusual tone.

The film is Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Oppenheimer’s (“The Act of Killing”) first narrative feature, which he wrote with Rasmus Heisterberg and produced with Signe Byrge Sorensen and Swinton. The film stars Academy Award winner Swinton (“Michael Clayton”), George Mackay (“1917”), Moses Ingram (“The Queen’s Gambit”), Bronagh Gallagher (“The Commitments”), Tim McInnerny (“One Day”), Lennie James (“The Walking Dead”), and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (“Nocturnal Animals”). The music is by Joshua Schmidt (“Midwestern Gothic...

It’s difficult to imagine that following apocalyptic events, the remaining humans will arbitrarily feel like busting out singing. But that’s what writer-director Joshua Oppenheimer envisions in The End. Described as a cautionary tale, The End opens in theaters on December 6, 2024.

The cast includes Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, George MacKay (1917), and Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit). Bronagh Gallagher (Brassic), Tim McInnerny (Gladiator II), and Lennie James (Fear the Walking Dead) also star.

“From Academy Award-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world. Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger,...

Tilda Swinton, George Mackay, Michael Shannon, and Moses Ingram sing for their lives in “The End.”

Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic family drama “The End” stars Swinton as a mother who protects her family by living in a bunker for decades after the world has ended. George Mackay, her plays her son, has never seen the outside world. Shannon co-stars as his father, while Moses Ingram plays a stranger who arrives, interrupting their carefully crafted underground world.

Here’s the official synopsis: “Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. Son, a naïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and suddenly, the delicate bonds...

"I think I like her!" "But you've never met anybody before..." Neon has unveiled the full trailer for a unique musical creation called The End, the first narrative feature film directed by the acclaimed doc filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. This cynical take on the end of the world is a Golden Age-style musical about the last human family. Described as a poignant and deeply human musical about a wealthy family living in an ornate bunker in a salt mine. An urgent and unforgettable cautionary tale, The End stars Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, with Moses Ingram. Featuring original songs from Joshua Schmidt (music) and Joshua Oppenheimer (lyrics). The cast also includes Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, and Lennie James. I've heard mixed on this - some people love it, some people hate it, as if the movie was trolling the audience the entire time. A musical about a family of rich idiots?...

Almost three years have gone by since Joshua Oppenheimer, the director behind the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, announced that he was teaming up with Neon to make his narrative feature debut with The End, “a golden-age musical about the last human family.” That film went into production last year, with a cast that includes Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), George MacKay (1917), Moses Ingram (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Bronagh Gallagher (Pulp Fiction), Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill), Lennie James (The Walking Dead), and Danielle Ryan (The Silencing). Now it’s making the festival rounds, building up to a December theatrical release. The film is scheduled to start playing in New York and Los Angeles on December 6th, with the limited release expanding on December 13th. As those dates are swiftly approaching, a trailer for The End has...

Neon has revealed the trailer and poster for the apocalyptic musical film The End, which was co-written and directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. The movie will open in Los Angeles and New York on Dec. 6 and in select cities on Dec. 13.

From Academy Award-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine.

Son, a naïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and suddenly, the delicate bonds of blind optimism that have held this wealthy clan together begin to fray.

As tensions rise, their...

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer comes Neon’s The End, being described as “a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.” Watch the official trailer below.

End of the world musical The End will release in theaters on December 6, 2024.

An urgent and unforgettable cautionary tale, The End stars Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon, George MacKay (1917) and Moses Ingram.

The screenplay is by Joshua Oppenheimer and Rasmus Heisterberg (A Royal Affair), with songs by Joshua Schmidt (music) and Joshua Oppenheimer (lyrics).

Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, and Lennie James also star.

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At the end of the world, do you think survivors will be so happy, they’ll belt out a song? That’s the situation we find in the new musical film, “The End.”

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As seen in the trailer, “The End” tells the story of a family and their friends who have survived the apocalypse. And while they are confined to a shelter, finding ways to busy their lives, they occasionally burst out in song.

Read More: ‘The End’ Review: Singing For Forgiveness In A Post-Apocalyptic World [Telluride]

“The End” stars Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, and Lennie James.

Continue reading ‘The End’ Trailer: Tilda Swinton Bursts Out In Song In This Post-Apocalyptic Musical at The Playlist.

A decade after his staggering documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has now returned, but this time with a narrative feature. The End, which stars Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, and Lennie James has a logline unlike another this year: a human musical about a family that survived the end of the world. Following its Telluride and TIFF festival premieres, Neon will release the film on December 6 and has now debuted the first trailer.

In a rave from the premiere, Caleb Hammond said in his review, “From the jump, The End embodies a more classical filmmaking mode. Following an establishing shot of an unspeakably beautiful underground salt mine, a lush orchestral score plays over close-ups of oil paintings while opening credits roll. A remarkable level of craft is visible at once and maintained throughout the extended 148-minute runtime.

A quoted review in the new trailer for Joshua Oppenheimer's The End hails it as "one of the most unique cinematic experiences ever." Based on the clip Neon dropped today, that might actually be true. The End is a musical (with actual singing in the trailer!) starring Tilda Swinton,...

The French director Bertrand Bonello, whose science-fiction drama “The Beast” played in competition at Venice last year, is sitting in the sunshine in medieval Lucca, dressed in white and thinking of the future. He’s speaking to Variety about what he’s learned from the film, which screened this week at Lucca Comics and Games, how cinema is changing and artificial intelligence.

“The Beast” is set in Paris in 2044 when AI reigns supreme. In such a technologically regulated society, human emotions have become a threat, and to get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by going back into her past lives. There, she reunites with Louis, her great love. But she’s overcome by fear, a premonition that catastrophe is on the way.

Lea Seydoux plays Gabrielle, while George MacKay is Louis. The film is based on the novella “The Beast in the Jungle” by Henry James.

“The Beast...

Fans will always adore Nicolas Cage for his roles as historian Ben Gates in National Treasure and alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas, among others. The 60-year-old is also known for his unconventional personal life, producing five marriages that reflect his whirlwind romances and fast-paced lifestyle.

Most recently, Cage has enjoyed three years of love with his wife, Riko Shibata. The pair rarely step out in public. However, they made a special exception for the Newport Beach Film Festival, where the Longlegs star received special honors with the Icon Award.

Nicolas Cage and wife of three years, Riko Shibata, looked comfortable and happy together on the red carpet Riko Shibata and Nicolas Cage at the Newport Beach Film Festival Honors Brunch | Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for Newport Beach Film Festival

Nicolas Cage and Riko Shibata walked the red carpet together before the Newport Beach Film Festival (Nbff) Honors Brunch.

Variety will honor Amy Poehler with the Variety Legend & Groundbreaker Award at the Newport Beach Festival on Sunday, October 20. The award is reserved for those who have broken barriers in the industry and withstood the test of time. Poehler will accept the honor for her career achievements, including the recent success of “Inside Out 2.”

Reprising her role as the voice of Joy in “Inside Out 2,” Poehler served as a leader of the emotions inside Riley’s head and as a star driving the film’s extraordinary success. It’s the highest-grossing animated film of all time and tops the charts among all films released in 2024 with over $1.6 billion at the global box office.

“From her days as a founding member of the pioneering Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group decades ago to her time as a breakout star of ‘SNL’ and through her time on the Peabody and...

Ewan McGregor, the veteran Scottish actor who recently earned some of the best reviews of his 30-year career for his performance at the center of the Paramount+ limited series A Gentleman in Moscow, on which he also served as an executive producer, has been tapped for the Newport Beach Film Festival’s (Nbff) TV Performance of the Year Award.

McGregor, 53, will be celebrated at an event that will kick off on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 5:30 p.m. Pt, at the Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Beach. To begin with, he will sit down with yours truly for a career-retrospective conversation that will be recorded for subsequent posting as an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. Then, the fest will present him with his award.

“The Newport Beach Film Festival could not be more honored to bestow this award to Ewan McGregor for his legendary career,” Gregg Schwenk,...

Joshua Oppenheimer is optimistic. The filmmaker says his postapocalyptic musical film The End, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon and George MacKay, is an opportunity to spark change.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the San Sebastian Film Festival, where his movie is screening, Oppenheimer described being motivated to make this film after visiting the bunker of an oligarch who, perhaps eerily, refused to discuss exactly why he was investing in a bunker.

The End tells the story of a wealthy family living in their palatial bunker 25 years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable. Mother (Swinton), Father (Shannon) and Son (MacKay) are confined to the space and soon find themselves struggling to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life. The family pushes harder to deafen the noise of creeping guilt — breaking out into show tunes about “a bright future.”

“When you’re...

Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and Oscar nominees June Squibb, Colman Domingo and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are among the honorees at this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival Honors on Oct. 20 at the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach. The honorees will be feted at a special brunch also celebrating Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch.

Cage, currently appearing in the horror hit “Longlegs,” will receive the Icon Award for his long career. Joan Chen, recently seen in “Didi,” will receive the Career Achievement Award. Two Oscar nominees will also receive honors: Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) is being presented the Maverick Award and June Squibb (“Thelma”) the Lifetime Achievement Award. Emmy and Grammy winner and 15-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren (“The Six Triple Eight”) will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Music Award. Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”) and Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Abbott Elementary”) are receiving the Artist of Distinction Award.

Joshua Oppenheimer and George Mackay during the press conference After establishing himself as a successful documentarian with The Act Of Killing and The Look Of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer tackles a musical about the end of the world with his fiction debut, The End. Set in a near-future, a family has retreated to a bunker underground. There a Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton) and their Son (George Mackay) live with a butler (Tim McInnery), a doctor (Lennie James) and Mother’s friend (Bronagh Gallagher), who also essentially takes care of the housework. Their world is one of recreated comfort, packed with famous artworks, where the older members of the household carefully curate their own version of history, which they pass on to the son, who was born into the environment. Their equilibrium is rocked when a Girl (Moses Ingram) unexpectedly enters their world as the family and their new guest...

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Midnight at the Pera Palace is a Turkish time-travel historical drama series created by written by Elif Usman. Inspired by the 2014 historical non-fiction book titled Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by author Charles King, the Netflix series follows the story of Esra, a young journalist in modern-day Istanbul as she is tasked with writing an article about the Pera Palace Hotel and soon she is transported back in time and tries to stop a sinister plot from unfolding that could change the Turkey she knows. So, if you loved the time travel intrigue, compelling characters, and a thrilling story in Midnight at the Pera Palace here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Travelers has to be one of the most brilliantly thought-out time travel thriller dramas ever made. Created by Brad Wright, the Netflix series follows a group of travelers who had to send their consciousness back in time to the 21st century. Knowing what is going to happen in the future if they don’t complete their mission, these travelers have to stop the end of the world. Travelers stars Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Dolman, and Patrick Gilmore. So, if you loved the thrilling stories, sci-fi elements, and compelling characters in Travelers here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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El Festival se celebra del 20 al 28 de septiembre. © Ssiff

La 72ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián contará con una notable presencia de cineastas, actores, guionistas y productoras de renombre que se darán cita en la ciudad.

La Sección Oficial será el epicentro de muchas de estas figuras, quienes presentarán sus últimas producciones y participarán en diversas actividades del festival. La inauguración del festival estará marcada por la película Emmanuelle, que llegará acompañada de la directora Audrey Diwan y los actores Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, Jamie Campbell Bower y Chacha Huang. Por otro lado, para clausurar el festival, el director John Crowley y el actor Andrew Garfield presentarán We Live In Time (Vivir el momento), una de las películas más anticipadas de esta edición.

El Festival de San Sebastián también recibirá a destacadas personalidades como la directora Gia Coppola y la icónica Pamela Anderson, quienes asistirán a la proyección de The Last Showgirl.

Chatting with the head of a prominent documentary-production company recently, I asked if hybrid filmmaking had reached its natural limit. Could it conceivably be pushed further? He posited these limitations might be behind a recent trend of documentarians pivoting to fiction: Kirsten Johnson is making a Susan Sontag biopic with Kristen Stewart; Frederick Wiseman made his first narrative feature A Couple after half a century spent in non-fiction; Roberto Minervini’s The Damned and Sandhya Suri’s Santosh both premiered at Cannes this past Spring; most recently, RaMell Ross adapted the Pulitzer-winning novel Nickel Boys. Documentarians are realizing that if fiction and non-fiction are both highly constructed, then why not work this construction openly, with the added perks of larger budgets and access to stars?

Joshua Oppenheimer joins that cohort with The End, a bunker-bound musical set at the end of the world. From the jump, The End embodies a more classical filmmaking mode.

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The 68th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled additional titles for its 2024 program. The new slate includes one world premiere, one international premiere, one European premiere, and four U.K. premieres.

Charlie McDowell’s “The Summer Book,” starring Glenn Close, Emily Matthews and Anders Danielsen Lie, will have its world premiere as a special presentation. The film adapts Tove Jansson’s novel about a family’s summer on a Finnish island.

Justin Kurzel’s documentary “Ellis Park,” focusing on musician Warren Ellis, is set for its international premiere. The European premiere goes to Fleur Fortuné’s sci-fi feature debut “The Assessment,” with Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel.

U.K. premieres include Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic drama “The End,” featuring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram and Michael Shannon; Marco Dutra’s genre-bending “Bury Your Dead,” starring Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano and Danilo Grangheia; Giovanni Tortorici’s coming-of-age tale “Dicianovve,...

The London Film Festival has added multiple titles to this year’s lineup including Charlie McDowell’s The Summer Book, which will screen as a world premiere. Scroll down for the full list.

The Summer Book is an adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s classic novel and stars Glenn Close and Anders Danielsen Lie. Also joining today is Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative feature debut The End. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a family and their companions live in harmony until the arrival of a stranger cracks their strictly organized world wide open, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, and Michael Shannon. The film travels to London after debuting in Telluride.

Other titles include Justin Kurzel’s first non-fiction film, Ellis Park, and Fleur Fortuné’s feature debut The Assessment, a sci-fi chamber piece featuring Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, and Alicia Vikander.

This year’s London Film Festival...

Mubi has picked up Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End starring Tilda Swinton for the UK, Germany and Austria.

The musical, which recently world premiered at Telluride, surrounds the last surviving family on earth. Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram also star.

Oppenheimer and Swinton produce the film alongside Final Cut for Real. Co-producers are Viola Fügen, The End Mfp, Conor Barry, Wild Atlantic Pictures, Flaminio Zadra, Dorje Film, Tracy O’Riordan, Moonspun Films, Ann Lundberg, and Anagram.

The Match Factory handles international sales. Neon is distributing the title in North America.

“Measuring ovations is deeply silly”: what’s...

Exclusive: Mubi, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has acquired all rights in UK, Germany and Austria to Joshua Oppenheimer’s (The Act of Killing) new feature The End, which had its world premiere at Telluride this weekend.

The ambitious film is imagined as a Golden Age-style musical and cautionary tale about the last human family.

Starring are Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), BAFTA-nominee George Mackay (1917), and Emmy-nominee Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit).

Screenplay is by Oppenheimer and Rasmus Heisterberg (A Royal Affair), with songs by Joshua Schmidt (music) and Oppenheimer (lyrics). Marius de Vries is the executive music producer.

The official synopsis reads: “Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily...

In December 2023, a report came out that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was building a sprawling underground bunker on a secluded stretch of ranch land on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The project is shrouded in layers of NDAs, but it’s supposedly 5,000 square feet and will have its own energy and food supplies. When the end of civilization comes, Zuckerberg, like many billionaires, will be sheltered from impact.

It’s hard not to think about Zuckerberg, isolating in his bastion of uberwealth, while watching Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical The End. The film, which premiered at Telluride, is a fascinating and demanding intellectual exercise about what happens to a family who, after contributing to the world’s demise, shields themselves from the effects of disaster. Do they grieve or regret? Do they reflect on their actions? Or do they simply march forward, lulled into complacency by the avoidant and revisionist stories they tell themselves?...

Documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer shines a light on humanity’s darker side. His acclaimed works The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence uncovered atrocities in Indonesia with unflinching honesty. For his narrative debut, The End, Oppenheimer tackles similarly profound themes through a unique lens.

Set decades after climate change renders Earth uninhabitable, the film centers on an affluent family holed up in an underground bunker. For twenty-five years, they’ve hid from the devastated world above. Down here, Michael Shannon, Tilda Swinton, and their son (George MacKay) live in lavish, museum-like conditions. But to maintain their insular bubble, they must deny responsibility for the crisis.

Oppenheimer uses gilded cages and original songs to examine how privilege can breed willful blindness. Digging into guilt, denial, and desperate rationalizations, he peers into humanity’s capacity for self-delusion. The family’s cushy isolation gets disrupted by an outsider’s arrival, shaking foundations and dislodging long-buried feelings.

Musicals are really in vogue at the fall film festivals this year. At Venice the upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux will have stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga singing and dancing to the standards. At Telluride, Emilia Pérez has the bug, as does the country-tinged The Easy Kind. Plus there is the Robbie Williams creation Better Man, from The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey; and Pharrell Williams’ Lego biopic Piece By Piece that are keeping us coming out of the theatre humming the tunes. And now, world premiering today at Telluride is The End, perhaps the most unlikely storyline for a musical of all (well at least until Joker starts warbling “That’s Entertainment”). It is set after the world has ended due to a cataclysmic environmental disaster and the only people left on earth are a very wealthy family –partially responsible for it — living in a plush underground bunker.

It’s a classic story prompt: The last man on Earth hears a knock at the door. In Joshua Oppenheimer’s delirious and delicately monumental “The End,” the man is an über-affluent family. The “door” (so to speak) connects the scorched ruins of our planet to the cavernous underground bunker where these characters have buried themselves for the last 25 years. The knock reverberates with a force powerful enough to dislodge all the feelings they’ve worked so hard to bury along with them — the humanity they’ve had to deny somewhere deep within themselves in order to make peace with the humanity they chose to leave behind on the surface.

Despite the broad familiarity of its premise, however, this story doesn’t unfold like any post-apocalyptic fable before it. For one thing, it’s a full-throated musical that starts with Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton leading the rest of the...

The odd, accidental synchronicity of the movie business brought us double volcano movies, double asteroid/comet movies, double Pinocchio movies and double Truman Capote movies in rapid succession, along with four body-swapping movies over two years back in the 1980s. But “The End,” which premiered on Saturday night at the Telluride Film Festival, may be part of the weirdest trend in cinematic coincidence of them all: film-festival movies that are musicals, even though there’s absolutely nothing in the subject matter to make you think they should be.

First there was Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” which caused a sensation at this year’s Cannes Film Festival by taking a story of a Central American drug lord who undergoes gender reassignment surgery and filling it with songs. The Venice Film Festival struck next with “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which finds Todd Phillips turning his sequel to the Oscar-winning 2019 drama “Joker” into a musical,...

What will the existence of the elite class, whose conspicuous consumption is a status symbol and has a negative impact on the environment, look like once everything has been completely destroyed? Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End imagines what that future could look like, joining the ranks of other recent films that have put outrageous privilege in their often sanctimonious cross hairs. But the willful blindness of the ruling class is something that Oppenheimer has intimately grappled with in his documentary work, namely The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, and he attempts to carve out a unique approach to eating the rich on screen by dressing up his venom in the fanciful garbs of a Golden Age musical.

Set 20 years after an environmental collapse has wiped out society, The End takes place in a lavish underground bunker within the depths of a salt mine. This is the home...

With “The Act of Killing,” director Joshua Oppenheimer approached the documentary form in a radical, seemingly unthinkable way, inviting his subjects — Indonesian gangsters who had once served on the country’s death squads — to reenact their crimes on camera. Why should his narrative debut be any more conventional?

For “The End,” Oppenheimer conceives a peculiar post-apocalyptic musical, confined to an underground bunker where an elite set of people have hoarded fine art and expensive wines for a cataclysm that, perversely enough, they may well have instigated. Oppenheimer got the idea from a documentary he was developing about a “very wealthy, very dangerous family” (in his words), but ultimately chose to steer the project in a very different direction.

With its turgid 148-minute running time and defiant lack of compelling conflict, “The End” doesn’t pander to mainstream sensibilities. Rather, Oppenheimer appeals to the art-house crowd with a serious-minded rumination on...

Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay star in “The End,” a new post-apocalyptic musical about the last human family on Earth. I mean, we’re sold already, but further tantalizing is the fact that “The End” is the narrative debut and long-overdue latest film from filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. If Oppenheimer’s name rings a bell, it should. He’s the director behind the heralded Oscar-nominated documentaries “The Act of Killing” (2012) and “The Look of Silence” (2014), the former film listed in our feature about the Best Documentaries Of The 2010s.

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Almost three years have gone by since Joshua Oppenheimer, the director behind the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, announced that he was teaming up with Neon to make his narrative feature debut with The End, “a golden-age musical about the last human family.” That film went into production last year, with a cast that includes Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), George MacKay (1917), Moses Ingram (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Bronagh Gallagher (Pulp Fiction), Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill), Lennie James (The Walking Dead), and Danielle Ryan (The Silencing). Now it’s making the festival rounds, with the Telluride Film Festival unveiling the image that can be seen above, and a teaser poster arriving online just ahead of the film’s screenings at both Telluride and the Toronto International Film Festival. The poster can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Exclusive: Utopia will be teaming with Lionsgate on the stateside theatrical release of Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian epic, Megalopolis when it hits theatres on Sept. 27.

Utopia will create and implement specialty marketing, word-of-mouth, and non-traditional theatrical distribution initiatives targeting moviegoers.

Utopia as behind such movies as the critically acclaimed Shiva Baby and the Oscar shortlisted Holy Spider.

Said Coppola: “I am confident we are in great hands with Lionsgate, and Robert and his team at Utopia will be a tremendous addition. They have proven that there is success in an artist-first approach while also making bold moves, especially at a time when our film business often shies away from daring endeavors. I know Utopia will help Megalopolis discover untapped audiences and opportunities for its theatrical launch alongside Lionsgate.”

Added co-founder Robert Schwartzman: “The visionary, inventive, and cinematic epic that is Megalopolis is exactly the kind of film that excites us at Utopia.

Exclusive: Tracy Letts and Moses Ingram have joined the ensemble cast of Kathryn Bigelow‘s next film at Netflix. The untitled thriller also stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris, Greta Lee and Gabriel Basso. Bigelow will direct.

Netflix had no comment on the casting.

The film’s title and plot remain under wraps, though sources have told Deadline that it will be set at the White House as a national crisis unfolds. The project marks Bigelow’s first feature since the 2017 thriller Detroit, an awards contender produced and distributed by Annapurna Pictures.

Letts is coming off his Emmy-nominated performance in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty in which he played coach Coach Jack McKinney. He can be seen next in the Peacock series Mr. Throwback starring Stephen Curry. That series bows August 8.

He was also recently seen in the psychological thriller McVeigh opposite Alfie Allen...

La sección oficial a competición del Ssiff se llena de grandes nombres. © 72Ssiff

Hace unas semanas se dieron a conocer los títulos españoles que competirán por la Concha de Oro en la 72ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián, que se celebrará del 20 al 28 de septiembre. Éstos son Soy Nevenka, de Icíar Bollaín, El llanto de Pedro Martín-Calero, Los destellos, de Pilar Palomero, y Tardes de soledad, de Albert Serra.

Hoy se han anunciado títulos restantes de la sección oficial a competición del festival, los cuales acompañarán a Bollaín, Martín-Calero, Palomero y Serra en la contienda por el prestigioso galardón. Entre los títulos más destacados encontramos Cónclave, The End, Hard Truths y The Last Showgirl.

Cónclave, de Edward Berger, director de Sin novedad en el frente, se presenta como un fuerte contendiente a la Concha de Oro. Este film tendrá su premiere mundial en el Festival de Cine...

New films from directors Mike Leigh, François Ozon, Edward Berger, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Costa-Gavras will vie for the Golden Shell at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday announced the competition line-up for the 72nd edition of San Sebastian, which runs from September 20-28.

Highlights include Leigh’s hotly-anticipated new film Hard Truths, which will see the iconoclastic British director reunite with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste; and Conclave, Berger’s follow-up to his multiple-Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front. The Vatican thriller stars Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal tasked with supervising a conclave following the sudden death of the Pope to choose a successor.

Veteran political filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Missing, Z) returns to San Sebastian with Last Breath, a drama about a palliative care doctor. Ozon will make his sixth appearance in the festival’s official selection with When Fall Is Coming, a French drama starring Hélène Vincent,...

Das San Sebastián International Film Festival hat sein Programm für die 72. Ausgabe bekannt gegeben. Aus deutscher Sicht der größte Name: Edward Bergers „Conclave“ wird auf dem spanischen A-Festival seine Europapremiere im Wettbewerb feiern. Weitere bekannte Namen sind Gia Coppola, Mike Leigh, François Ozon und Costa-Gavras.

Ralph Fiennes als Kardinal Lawrence in Edward Bergers „Conclave“ (Credits: Focus Features)

Schon in den letzten Jahren hat sich immer mehr angedeutet, dass das spanische A-Festival wieder an Bedeutung zunimmt. Für die 72. Ausgabe des San Sebastián International Film Festival, die vom 20. bis 28. September stattfindet, kann der langjährige Festivalchef José Luis Rebordinos auf eine Selektion mit überaus namhaften Filmemacher:innen zugreifen. Bereits bekannt war Audrey Diwans „Emmanuelle“ mit Noémie Merlant als Eröffnungsfilm. Dazu gesellt sich im Wettbewerb als aus deutscher Sicht wichtigster Name Edward Berger mit seiner Robert-Harris-Verfilmung „Conclave“ mit Ralph Fiennes, der nach Auftritten in Telluride und Toronto in der baskischen Küstenstadt seine Europapremiere haben wird.

Two Netflix Originals and new movies from Mike Leigh, Joshua Oppenheimer, Gia Coppola and Edward Berger will vie for San Sebastian’s top Golden Shell this September.

The festival features a main competition that is stronger than usual on both bigger-name directors and ‘A’ list stars, such as Tilda Swinton in Oppenheimer’s “The End,” Jamie Lee Curtis and Pamela Anderson in Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” and the ensemble cast of Berger’s “Conclave” that includes Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini.

Bound for Toronto and Telluride before San Sebastián, Oppenheimer’s “The End” stars Swinton, George MacKay and Michael Shannon in what is described as a post-apocalyptic “Golden Age” musical.

“Conclave,” from “All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger,” is a psychological thriller written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris and starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow.

The San Sebastián Film Festival has revealed a bumper Official Selection for its latest edition, which will unfold from September 20 — 28.

The festival, which is celebrating its 72nd edition, will screen new films from established filmmakers such as Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Diego Lerman, Joshua Oppenheimer, and François Ozon alongside works from new filmmakers including Laura Carreira and Xin Huo.

Coppola’s The Last Showgirl heads to San Sebastián following a debut in Toronto. The film stars Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Dave Bautista. The film’s plot follows a seasoned showgirl who must plan for her future when her show closes after a 30-year run. Also heading to Spain from The Six is Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin. The British-Spanish production is said to portray the everyday life of a London family, addressing such issues as family relations,...