Steve McQueen says “Blitz” captures WWII in a way that ‘hasn't been depicted before in cinema’
The filmmaker explains why his latest is "very different" from other films about the German bombing campaign in London.
In Occupied City and Blitz, director Steve McQueen tackles WWII horrors
Like Occupied City and Blitz, Small Axe depicts a city in crisis. The source of the problem is the institutionalised racism ...
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Steve McQueen’s Blitz, by turns gripping and didactic, locates solidarity in desperate survivalism
The artist and film-maker’s historical feature about London during the Battle of Britain frames it as a traumatic experience ...
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Blitz Is Steve McQueen’s Most Conventional Film to Date – and That’s No Bad Thing
The former Turner Prize-winning artist’s latest work is racial history masquerading as a chocolate-box depiction of the ...
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The Quiet Sublime of Steve McQueen
The filmmaker’s return to a more coincidental, permissive mode of observation in tandem exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Beacon is enlivening, if not always incisive.
Steve McQueen Was Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer On Eve Of Shooting ‘Blitz’, But Is Now “Fully Recovered” Following Surgery: His Story
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is revealing today that two years ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and ...
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The Real Story Behind Apple TV+’s ‘Blitz,’ a New Steve McQueen Movie About Britain’s Everyday World War II Heroes
Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...
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Blitz: Is The Steve McQueen Movie Based on a True Story?
Blitz’ is a historical war drama film by Steve McQueen that presents a unique take on a horrific part of the United Kingdom’s ...
Steve McQueen examines how society shifts and functions with Blitz
What makes The Oscar-winner’s latest film anything but conventional is its centering on a love story between mother and child ...
Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’
Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940 ...
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Steve McQueen and ‘Blitz’
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is known for his in-depth, human exploration of characters and history, which is executed with an artist’s eye. We ...