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Joshua Oppenheimer

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The End

By: Addison Wylie After being lauded for his work as a documentarian on The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, I suppose Joshua Oppenheimer was itching to cash in some clout; deciding to do so with an apocalyptic musical titled The End. Sporting impressive art direction and a well-regarded cast including Tilda Swinton (I’m Not Here), Michael Shannon (The Night Before) and George MacKay (1917), Oppenheimer fuses components of a survival thriller, a dynasty drama, and…

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The Look of Silence

By: Trevor Jeffery There are so many documentaries covering atrocities.  It’s easy, or necessary, to forget that sometimes;  there is so much horror that to consider it all – all the time – isn’t healthy.  The Look of Silence isn’t so much about the importance of its subject, or about squeezing emotions from an increasingly apathetic audience.  It’s about humanity and acts of evil, and how people will twist their perspective to retain the last…