British director Steve McQueen’s Blitz tells the story of a young Black boy evacuated to the countryside to escape the ...
Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...
In a film that has powerful moments of wonderment, humor and joy, Saoirse Ronan plays a London factory worker trying to ...
So declares US war correspondent Quentin Reynolds in the British propaganda short London Can Take It, released in November ...
As a result, McQueen curdles the expected optimism with a realistic look at how Black people and African and Indian ...
The Blitz ended when the Germans turned their focus toward the Soviet Union. World War II ended in Europe with Nazi Germany’s ...
Steve McQueen’s latest film, set in 1940 during Germany’s bombardment of the British capital, draws extensively from wartime photos, and much of it was shot outside London.
Ultimately, that there is a war on in “Blitz” may not be its defining feature. The London under siege in McQueen’s film is as ...
Blitz' editor Sciberras tells IndieWire about London as a major character during the German bombing during World War II.
"Blitz" director Steve McQueen and production designer Adam Stockhausen built and destroyed practical sets instead of using ...
And that’s maybe “Blitz” in a nutshell: not a perfect movie, but a truly moving one. Taking place in London in September 1940, it focuses primarily on George, a biracial child who lives with his ...
A title card for Steve McQueen’s harrowing and viscerally impactful historical war drama “Blitz” tells us that during the ...