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The Act of Killing

November 2020

  • Werner Herzog.

    Five of the best documentaries, as chosen by Werner Herzog

    From The Act of Killing to Vernon, Florida, the famed German director selects his favourite non-fiction films

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

    Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

March 2018

  • A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot film still

    A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot review - corruption and violence in Free Derry

  • 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

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

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

  • The Look of Silence director Joshua Oppenheimer and producer Signe Byrge Sorensen at the 2015 IDA Documentary Awards at Paramount Studios

    The Look of Silence tops winners at documentary association awards

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

  • Andreas Harsono and Galuh Wandita at Ubud writers and readers festival.

    Indonesians have never stopped talking about 1965 – the world should listen

    Jemma Purdey and Kate McGregor

October 2015

  • Laksmi Pamuntjak

    Censorship is returning to Indonesia in the name of the 1965 purges

    Laksmi Pamuntjak
    Even by the standards of post-totalitarian nations’ lingering paranoia the last month in Indonesia has seen a disheartening return to Suharto-era tropes of repression and neurosis
  • An event at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali in October 2013.

    Indonesian writers' festival forced to cancel events linked to 1965 massacre

    Ubud Writers and Readers Festival pressured to call off panels, exhibition and screening linked to 50th anniversary of massacre of alleged communists
  • Programme Name: Cradle To Grave - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 8) - Picture Shows: Fred (PETER KAY) , Bet (LUCY SPEED) - (C) ITV Cradle Ltd - Photographer: Matt Squire4072398

    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

June 2015

  • The Look Of Silence

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

  • Adi Rukun, left, confronts former death squad commander Amir Siahaan in The Look of Silence.

    Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields

January 2015

  • Blue is the Warmest Colour

    Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade

    We are now midway through the 2010s. So what trends are emerging in cinema? Peter Bradshaw takes a look – and picks his top 50 films of the demi-decade

August 2014

  • Joshua Oppenheimer arrives in Venice for the film festival.

    The Look of Silence gets Venice talking, but verdict from Indonesia still pending

  • The Look of Silence

    First look review
    The Look of Silence: Act of Killing director's second film is as horrifically gripping as first - Venice film festival review

June 2014

  • The Fault in Our Stars

    Film blog
    The Fault in Our Stars dazzles the UK but Jersey Boys lacks star quality

    Charles Gant: Teenage love story enjoys sensational UK box-office debut, while Clint Eastwood's music biopic falls flat without big names

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