‘Blitz’ Director Steve McQueen On His Homage To Wartime London: “It Wasn’t About Ticking Boxes”
Blitz' director Steve McQueen on the choices he made to create his homage to wartime London with Saoirse Ronan and newcomer ...
London's latest at risk buildings revealed
A Jacobean mansion and a concert venue in a Baroque church are among 26 sites across London to be added to Historic England's ...
The Blitz: how it was reported
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen's latest film Blitz portrays what it was like for the ordinary people who had to endure ...
How ‘Blitz’ Recreates War-Torn London
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.
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A mother and son are separated by the London 'Blitz' in this quietly radical film
In a film that has powerful moments of wonderment, humor and joy, Saoirse Ronan plays a London factory worker trying to ...
The nightmarish war film ‘Blitz’ aims high. But here’s why it falls short
Writer-director Steve McQueen's ambitious Second World War drama explores racism and resilience in Nazi-bombed London.
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In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes
It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz ... a 9-year-old biracial child in East London whose life with his mother, Rita ...
As bombs fall in ‘Blitz,’ a look at WWII history in London through new eyes
As a result, McQueen curdles the expected optimism with a realistic look at how Black people and African and Indian ...
Review: ‘Blitz’ stars Saiorse Ronan as a 1940 wartime Londoner searching for her son
“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It ...
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Review: Steve McQueen's WWII drama 'Blitz' is more unconventional than it appears
Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ‘Blitz,” set in London during World War II, might ...
Watch a Nightclub Scene in ‘Blitz’
The film “Blitz” primarily deals with the trials of a mother (Saoirse Ronan) and son (Elliott Heffernan) during World War II in London. But the film expands out to look at the ways the war was ...
‘Blitz’ Built and Destroyed Practical Sets Instead of Relying on CGI: ‘We Wanted It to Feel Like a Bomb Had Exploded’
"Blitz" director Steve McQueen and production designer Adam Stockhausen built and destroyed practical sets instead of using ...