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.
It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, ...
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 ...
The artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has said he was inspired to write Blitz "after seeing a faded photograph of a black ...
"Blitz" director Steve McQueen and production designer Adam Stockhausen built and destroyed practical sets instead of using ...
Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ‘Blitz,” set in London during World War II, might ...
Saoirse Ronan and newcomer Elliott Heffernan dominate the film as a mother and son separated by war who must find their way back to each other as London is bomb ...
120 minutes. STC “Keep smiling,” a wall scrawl of graffiti reads in the Nazi-bombed London of “Blitz.” Writer-director Steve McQueen intends for the message to be a sardonic twist on the ...
But the film beautifully uses song — it’s practically a musical — to show character, and to convey how music can take us to a ...
they're very personal just because with 'Blitz,' London's where I grew up, and Amsterdam is where I live and 'Small Axe' again is London. ..They're very personal stories. George is, in some ways ...
The wonderful new movie Blitz is a sadder, more somber look at a time when German bombs rained down on London. The filmmaker ...