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Joshua Oppenheimer

April 2020

  • For Sama

    Lockdown watch
    Lockdown watch: Joshua Oppenheimer on three essential recent masterpieces

    The director of The Act of Killing suggests widening your self-isolation horizons with contemporary films from desolate Russia, war-torn Syria and rural Italy

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

  • The Death of Mr Lazarescu – chosen by Pawel Pawlikowski and Mike Leigh

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The directors’ cut: film-makers choose the best movies of the century so far

March 2018

  • Two accounts reveal why one of the worst massacres of the 20th century took place and who was responsible

    Book of the day
    The Killing Season; The Army and the Indonesian Genocide reviews – the truth about one of the 20th century's worst massacres

    Two books crush Indonesian state accounts of 1960s anti-leftist massacres, implicate the US and UK and revise how we define genocide

January 2017

  • a still from Joshua Oppenheimer’s film The Look of Silence.

    Inspiring culture for 2017
    Fight the power: documentaries to unleash the activist in you

    Children in poverty, rape in the military, mass murderers at large … Oscar-nominated director Lucy Walker picks 10 powerful documentaries to galvanise you into action

November 2016

  • The Act Of Killing.

    Louis Theroux and other directors on their favourite documentary

    From psychodrama to sushi, specialists in the non-fiction form reveal the films that shocked and enthralled them

March 2016

  • Some of the 50 best documentaries... but which are your favourites?

    50 documentaries you need to see

    Ten of the best nonfiction film-makers today choose their own favourites, from serial killer stories to meta pranks.

December 2015

  • The Look Of Silence film still

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia
    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia – No 2: The Look of Silence

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year, we’re still haunted by Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling companion piece to The Act of Killing
  • Look of Silence

    The 50 best films of 2015 in the UK
    The 50 best films of 2015 in the UK – No 4: The Look of Silence

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in the UK this year, we’re still haunted by Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling companion piece to The Act of Killing

    • The 50 best films of 2015 in the US
      The 50 best films of 2015 in the US – No 6: The Look of Silence

    • Amy, Going Clear and He Named Me Malala top 2016 Oscars documentary shortlist

    • Spotlight wins big at Gotham awards, but surprise victors in acting categories

November 2015

  • Student Riots<br>circa 1965: Indonesian troops bar a crowd of flag-waving students from the approach to president Achmed Sukarno’s summer palace at Bogor in Indonesia following the abortive Communist coup of 1965. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

    Live Q&A: Indonesia, identity and the lasting legacy of 1965 – as it happened

  • Ubud Writers Festival 2015, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.

    Ubud writers' festival debates massacre 'that we’re not supposed to talk about'

October 2015

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    Cinema now
    Joshua Oppenheimer interview: ‘Virtually half the movies that come out are overrated’

    The film director’s first movie memory was Silkwood, starring Meryl Streep
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    TV tonight
    Thursday’s best TV: Cradle to Grave, Unforgotten, Hunted and A Very British Romance With Lucy Worsley

    Lucy Speed shines as Danny Baker’s mum, Nicola Walker is brilliant as DCI Stuart in Unforgotten, while Stephen and Martin and the other Hunted contestants remain at large as the surveillance-state show draws to a close. Plus: historian Lucy Worsley looks at romance while Chris Tarrant takes a trip to Siberia
  • The Look of Silence

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    The Look of Silence; A Sinner in Mecca; Insidious: Chapter 3; The Final Girls; San Andreas; The Cut; Grace of My Heart – review

    Joshua Oppenheimer follows up The Act of Killing with another first-rate documentary

June 2015

  • Adi’s mother in The Look of Silence.

    The Look of Silence review – return to Indonesia’s death squads

    In Joshua Oppenheimer’s companion piece to The Act of Killing, Indonesia’s butchers speak again – but this time, so do their victims
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    The Look of Silence - video review

    Our film critics review the second documentary from Joshua Oppenheimer, which takes us back to the mass killing of supposed communists in Indonesia in the 1960s

  • The Look Of Silence

    The Look of Silence review – a stunning, unmissable sequel to The Act of Killing

    Joshua Oppenheimer’s second film about mass murders in 1960s Indonesia offers the victims’ families the chance to interrogate the killers
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